Argonne National Laboratory 
 
SERIES TITLE Radon and Passive Smoking 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES 1985 1990 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT None 
 
 
VOLUME approximately 5 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
This series consists of administrative and research records, including data, relating 
to the exposure of human subjects to radon daughter products in an exposure chamber. 
A proposal was made and funded by the National Cancer Institute to study the 
possible modification of radon daughter exposure at home from passive smoking. In 
order to interpret data collected by body counting in the field, it was necessary to 
establish a method for distinguishing between radon daughter products deposited in 
the lungs and those deposited on the skin and clothing. To do so, Argonne employees 
were exposed in a chamber containing radon gas and daughter products and then 
measured in a whole body counter to determine radon daughter uptake. In some 
cases subjects breathed air free of radon and radon daughter products; in others they 
breathed air in the room. By combining different exposure regimes it was possible to 
gain understanding of the division of radon daughter product activity between the 
clothing, skin, and lungs.  
 
 
RESTRICTIONS This series contains privacy material.  
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Argonne National Laboratory 
Environmental Research Division 
Building 202, Room A354 
Argonne, IL 60439