The communication of radon risk in Sweden: where are we and where are we going?

Overall, when the Swedish National Board of Housing and Planning has had a proper communication/information budget the Board has been successful with regard to communicating the risks associated with radon, leading to homes being measured, and ensuring that individuals apply for up to half the costs associated with radon sanitation measures. When the Board has not had these funds it has not been successful. What is clear now is that the Board will only reach parts of the government’s generation goal regarding reducing radon set out in the important Government Bill of 2001. Schools and larger dwellings will meet the government set radon standards, but single-family dwellings will not. As a result, radon pollution in some shape or form will continue to cause radon-induced lung cancer in some 500 Swedes per annum until new measures are taken.