This Lecture will be a reminder of why radon is an indoor air quality issue, how it is managed and some of the recent, current and future challenges that we face in working on radon
Neil McColl is graduate physicist who has worked on various aspects of radiation protection in the 34 years since he started work at Chilton. This has included developing and using radiological impact assessment tools for routine and emergency environmental releases and radiation emergency preparedness and response. Neil has acted as consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency and led the introduction of radon as a topic in the latest version of the European Code Against Cancer, prepared by the WHO International Agency for Research into Cancer. Neil updated the radon section in the most recent edition of Clays Handbook of Environmental Protection, the leading UK textbook on Environmental Health. Neil is a member of the editorial Board of the Journal of Radiological Protection, the leading UK scientific journal in the field. As a department head Neil has had oversight of much of the PHE and HPA work on radon since 2008. Working with colleagues in the PHE Radon Group and across government, Neil was the lead author on the UKs first ever National Radon Action Plan that was published in 2018.