[aruanan]

Miners used to collect a fee for people go into their mine and soak up the radon.

Actually, this was not an old-timey practice since the concept of radiation hormesis is relatively new. There are some places where people can go into mines for exposure to low-level radiation. The easiest thing is just to live in a Western mountainous state.

See the following:

Observations on the Chernobul Disaster and LNT.

[mountainlion]

The Chernobyl Disaster was man made by operator disabeling the safeties. The reactor was like a swimming pool with no containment. Modern reactors have massive containment and multi level safeties. It is almost impossible to release radiation making automatic cure of cancer impossible./s