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More then 80,000 households which were identified as being at risk from dangerously high levels of radon gas in a national survey, have never been tested for the cancer causing substance, despite survey having concluded more then a decade ago.

That is among the key findings of a National Radon Forum held by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) today.