The Council of Ministers approves the National Plan against Radon

The Council of Ministers approved the National Plan against Radon, an odourless, invisible, radioactive gas naturally released from rocks, soil, and water. Radon can get into homes and buildings through small cracks or holes and build up in the air. Over time, breathing in high levels of radon can cause lung cancer.

The Plan describes the risks derived from exposure to it, analyses the situation in Spain with respect to protection measures and includes the strategies and actions that will be developed by the different administrations during a period of 5 years, to control the risk for the health of the population derived from exposure to the gas.

This Plan is articulated around five strategic axes:

1.- Knowledge and basic infrastructure

2.- Building

3.- Workplaces

4.- Priority action areas

5.- Communication and awareness

These five axes encompass, in turn, actions to understand the magnitude of the problem, such as evaluating the population’s exposure to radon and estimating its impact on the population’s health, reducing the concentration of radon in buildings, and promoting training programs, specifically for the different agents involved in the field of construction.

Another action will serve to raise awareness among the public, professionals, and administrations about the effects of radon on health and, in particular, in combination with tobacco. In this case the effects are notably increased, due to the synergistic effect of radon and tobacco.

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