Radon gas project earns young scientists trip to US
Shauna Murphy and Caoimhe Cronin were so intrigued about the fact that Mallow has some of the world’s highest levels of radon gas — the second-biggest cause of lung cancer —that they decided to find out more and entered their work at this month’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
It was so impressive that they were selected for the Intel Student of Excellence Award, given each year for a project in the event’s physics, chemistry and maths section.
