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stem cells, 27 , 65 , 71 , 72 , 107-108 , 120 , 121 , 135 , 136 , 140 , 241 , 245 , 246 , 248
target cells, 14-15 , 73-74 , 83 , 84 , 103 , 118
see also Epithelial cells;
Genetics
Children, 100 , 239-240
tapwater intake, 61
water contaminants, other than radon, 59-60
Chlorination, 165 , 166 , 175 , 255-256
trihalomethanes, 165 , 166 , 179 , 229 , 254
Chromatin, 114 , 224
Chromosomes, 105 , 114-115 , 121
DNA repair, 110-111
risk assessment, 13
Cigarettes, see Smoking
A Citizen's Guide to Radon , 28-29 , 41
Clean Air Act, 163
Colon cancer, 17 , 118-119
Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, 172-173 , 190
Constant-relative risk model, 94 , 95
Construction materials and practices, 33 , 143 , 151-160 , 198-199
building codes, 33 , 152-153 , 157 , 159-160
cracks, 146 , 152 , 154 , 160 , 192
radon-resistant buildings, 152-152 , 187-188 , 198
Cost and cost-benefit factors, 22 , 129
mitigation, 9-10 , 20-21 , 22 , 160 , 167 , 174-175 , 183 , 184 , 187 , 188 , 192-193 , 194 , 197
multimedia mitigation, 20-21 , 22 , 183 , 184 , 187 , 188 , 192-193 , 194 , 197
incentives, 21 , 192-193
Council of American Building Officials, 153
Countercurrent flow, 65 , 224 , 249 , 250
Cracks, buildings, 146 , 152 , 154 , 160 , 192
Crypts, 107 , 224 , 241 , 245 , 248
Cytokines, 108 , 117 , 224
D
Databases, 32-33 , 36-37 , 53 , 54
Decay, radioactive, general, 1 , 8 , 10 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 23-27 , 29 , 46 , 235
ingestion dosimetry, 14 , 59 , 60 , 62-63 , 65 , 73-76 , 78
inhalation dosimetry, 15 , 82-84 , 85-86 , 89-90 , 103
Demographic factors
special populations, 81
see also Age factors;
Gender factors;
Poverty
Department of Agriculture, 60
Department of Energy, 54-55
Diet, see Nutrition
Diffusional factors
entry into buildings, general, 142-143 , 144
lung-blood, 84
soil gas, general, 25 , 141 , 142-143 , 145
stomach wall, 14 , 27 , 59 , 64 , 65-66 , 71-73 , 75 , 76 , 135-136 , 137 , 139 , 140 , 198 , 237 , 241-248
Diffusion bubble aeration, 161 , 249-250
Disinfection and disinfection by-products, 11 , 20 , 165-166 , 171-178 , 179 , 182 , 195 , 224 , 254-256
trihalomethanes (THMs), 165 , 166 , 179 , 229 , 254
ultraviolet disinfection, 182
DNA, 13 , 28 , 106 , 108 , 109 , 114-115 , 116 , 118 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 131
chromosomes, 13 , 105 , 110-111 , 114-115 , 121
episomes, 115 , 224
microsatellite repeats, 113 , 226
nonhomologous recombination, 110 , 112 , 113 , 116 , 227
repair, 28 , 93 , 106 , 107 , 110-114 , 115-116 , 118 , 199
telomerase, 113 , 229
transcription, 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 120 , 229
transduction, 108 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 116 , 117-118 , 119
translation, 114 , 229
Dose and dosimetry, 10 , 13 , 27-28 , 59-104 , 151
absorbed dose, 1 , 9 , 14 , 27-28 , 59 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 66 , 68 , 73 , 74-81 (passim), 103 , 107 , 136 , 137 , 223 , 245 , 248 , 258 , 259
age factors, 78-79
airborne radiation, general, 27-28 , 15 , 82-104 , 105 , 107
bone, 63 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 85 , 239 , 251
breasts, 75 , 76 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 100 , 113 , 118 , 119
bronchi, 15 , 82 , 83 , 91-92 , 107-108
cellular processes, 105 , 107-108 , 109-110 , 115-116 , 120-123
