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Enhanced radiation shielding with galena concrete [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2015 A new concrete, containing galena mineral, with enhanced shielding properties for gamma sources is developed. To achieve optimized shielding properties, ten types of galena concrete containing different mixing ratios and a reference normal ...
Hadad Kamal +2 more
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Calculation of attenuation parameter for Ir-192 gamma source in shielding materials
Journal of Medical Physics, 2022 Purpose: Calculation of photon attenuation is necessary for the selection of shielding materials for an irradiation facility. Methods and Materials: In this work, a Monte Carlo simulation was utilized to assess the effectiveness of clay-polyethylene ...
Adila Hanim Aminordin Sabri +3 more
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Prediction of mechanical and radiation parameters of glasses with high Bi2O3 concentration
Results in Physics, 2021 This study aims to perform multidirectional characterizations on nuclear shielding efficiencies on some bismuth-based glasses. Accordingly, the γattenuation coefficients for xBi2O3-(75-x)B2O3–25Li2O (x = 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 the 70 mol%) were widely
A. El-Denglawey +6 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2022 The mass attenuation coefficients (μm) of polyethylene glycol (PEG) of different molecular weights (1000–200,000) were measured using single-beam photon transmission.
H. Akhdar, M.W. Marashdeh, M. AlAqeel
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Evaluation of the shielding parameters of alkaline earth based phosphate glasses using MCNPX code
Results in Physics, 2019 Glass systems of composition 16XO–3Al2O3–6CuO–20Na2O–55P2O5 (where X = Sr, Ca, Mg and Ba mol%) have been investigated to check its potential utilize as gamma ray shielding material. Different shielding quantities namely mass attenuation coefficient (µ/ρ),
O. Agar +7 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2017 In this work, linear and mass attenuation coefficients, effective atomic number and electron density, mean free paths, and half value layer and 10th value layer values of barium–bismuth–borosilicate glasses were obtained for 662 keV, 1,173 keV, and 1,332
Reza Bagheri +2 more
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Photon Shielding Features of Quarry Tuff
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 Cantera is a quarry tuff widely used in the building industry; in this work the shielding features of cantera were determined. The shielding characteristics were calculated using XCOM and MCNP5 codes for 0.03, 0.07, 0.1, 0.3, 0.662, 1, 2, and 3 MeV ...
Vega-Carrillo Hector Rene +5 more
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Results in Physics, 2019 Mass attenuation coefficient (μt) of some boron containing resources in China were investigated in the paper at 0.001–20 MeV through XCOM and Geant4. What’s more, half value thickness layer (HVL), mean free path (MFP), effective atomic number (Zeff) and ...
M.G. Dong +4 more
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Results in Physics, 2019 We propose the use of X-ray diffraction associated with Rietveld Method (RM-XRD) for soil components quantification aiming at evaluating photon attenuation parameters (total and partial attenuation coefficients (µ), effective atomic number (Zeff ...
L.F. Pires +3 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023 We determined the radiation shielding properties for 10CaO–xPbO–(90-x) deteriorated silica gel (DSG) glass system (x = 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and 45 mol.%).
P. Sopapan +7 more
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