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The heavy metal oxide glasses within the WO3-MoO3-TeO2 system to investigate the shielding properties of radiation applications
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In this paper, a new series of heavy metal oxide (HMO) glasses in the 10WO3-xMoO3-(90-x)TeO2, x = 10 −40 −mol% system have been developed using melt quenching technique to investigate their potentiality for radiation shielding applications.About:
This article is published in Progress in Nuclear Energy.The article was published on 2017-10-01. It has received 163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electromagnetic shielding & Mass attenuation coefficient.read more
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Phy-X / PSD: Development of a user friendly online software for calculation of parameters relevant to radiation shielding and dosimetry
TL;DR: A user friendly online photon shielding and dosimetry (PSD) software available at https://phy-x.net/PSD has been developed for calculation of parameters relevant to shielding as discussed by the authors.
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Effect of doping of Ce4+/3+ on optical, strength and shielding properties of (0.5-x)TeO2-0.25MoO-0.25Bi2O3-xCeO2 glasses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the application of the dopant CeO2 with different concentration on the efficiency of gamma radiation shielding by telluride glasses of type (0.5-x)TeO2-0.25MoO-1.25Bi2O3-xCeO2.
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Conventional and new lead-free radiation shielding materials for radiation protection in nuclear medicine: A review
TL;DR: A review on the application of lead as radiation shielding material, current safety issues related to lead, current work on radiation shielding materials and recent development of new lead-free shielding materials in nuclear medicine is presented in this paper.
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An extensive investigation on gamma ray shielding features of Pd/Ag-based alloys
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive study of photon interaction features has been made for some alloys containing Pd and Ag content to evaluate its possible use as alternative gamma radiations shielding material.
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Influence of Bi2O3/PbO on nuclear shielding characteristics of lead-zinc-tellurite glasses
M.S. Al-Buriahi,F.I. El-Agawany,Chahkrit Sriwunkum,Hakan Akyildirim,Halil Arslan,Baris T. Tonguc,Raouf El-Mallawany,Y.S. Rammah +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the nuclear shielding characteristics for two different lead-zinc-tellurite glass systems with the composition of TeO2-Bi2O3 -ZnO-PbO coded as series A and series B, respectively.
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WinXCom – a program for calculating x-ray attenuation coefficients
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An historical review and current status of buildup factor calculations and applications
TL;DR: In this article, a new fitting formula, called Geometric Progression, was developed to reproduce the data in codes used for shield design. This formula can reproduce the Data over the full range of distance, energy and atomic number within a few percent.
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Gamma ray shielding properties of PbO-Li 2 O-B 2 O 3 glasses
TL;DR: In this paper, the mass attenuation coefficients have been measured in (0.6-x) PbO-x Li 2 O-0.40 B 2 O 3 (where 0≤ x≤0.25 mol%) glasses for photon energies of 356, 662, 1173 and 1332 keV, with an overall scatter acceptance angle of 2.31°.
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Bismuth modified shielding properties of zinc boro-tellurite glasses
TL;DR: In this article, the gamma ray shielding properties of tellurium oxide based quaternary glasses in the system TeO2-B2O3-Bi2O 3-ZnO have been investigated.
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Photon interaction and energy absorption in glass: A transparent gamma ray shield
TL;DR: The effective atomic number, Zeff, the effective electron density, Ne,eff, and the energy dependence, ED, have been calculated at photon energies from 1-keV to 1-GeV for CaO-SrO-B2O3, PbO-Bi2O-3-B 2O3 glasses with potential applications as gamma ray shielding materials.