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A PROGRAMME FOR CALCULATING THE GAMMA RAY FLUX THROUGH A MULTILAYER SHIELD

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4245933

A program in autocode for the Ferranti Mercury Computer is described. It is designed to calculate the gamma ray flux due to a distributed source in a multilayered shield in plane geometry. Up to 43 different shield regions may be included and each of these may contain up to a maximum of 144 mesh intervals. Build up of low energy gamma photons is treated by means of an average build-up factor expressed in the Taylor form. The output may be chosen to be gamma dose rate or rate of energy deposition. (auth)

Research Organization:
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Research Group. Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Berks, England
NSA Number:
NSA-13-020310
OSTI ID:
4245933
Report Number(s):
AERE-R-2882
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English