Information for private individuals

In the following you will find everything about radon in private. This includes radon measurements, important information about house construction, radon in the household as well as radon in therapy and much more.

What is radon?

The naturally occurring noble gas radon is formed by radioactive decay from uranium and is itself radioactive. Radon can accumulate in buildings under unfavorable conditions, where it is constantly inhaled. It is not perceptible to the human senses. Nevertheless, it can be easily measured.

Since radon is formed during the radioactive decay of uranium and uranium is present in almost all soils, radon is also formed everywhere. As a gas, it can pass with the soil air through cracks and crevices in the foundation and thus into the indoor air. Under unfavorable circumstances, very high radon concentrations can thus occur in buildings. To protect the health of those people who stay in these buildings, such a situation should be avoided by precaution or remediation.

Since radon only becomes a problem when it accumulates in indoor air in buildings, it is a technologically related indoor pollutant. Outdoors, there is generally a strong dilution, so that no radon concentrations of concern arise.