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REACTOR SHIELDING INFORMATION MEETING, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 12 AND 13, 1953

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4312372

Thirty-one papers are presented on reactcr shielding design and development including experimental and theoretical problems. The titles are: Neutron Capture Gamma-Ray Spectra; Gamma-Ray Streaming through Cylindrical Voids in Water; The Effects of Impurities on the Streaming of Neutrons through Iron; The Transmission of Na/sup 24/ Gamma-Rays through Lucite and Steel for Several Angles of Incidence; The NDA Shielding Programs; Neutron Penetration in Hydrogen and the Removal Cross Section Concept; Experimental Breeder Reactor Shield Measurements; Monte Carlo Studies; Solution of Gamma-Ray Diffusion Problems by Random Sampling Methods; Discussion cf Certain Boundary Effects Upon the Propagation of Gamma Rays; Gamma Radiation from Inelastic Scattering of 3.1-Mev Neutrons; Analysis of the Scintillation Spectrometer Observations of the Penetration of Cs/sup 137/ Gamma Radiation through Water; Fast Neutron Removal Cross Sections; Neutron Spectra in Water; Attenuation of 14-Mev Neutrons in Water; Slant Penetration of Neutrons in Water; Attenuation of Neutrons through Thick Shields; Ground Scattering of Co/sup 60/ Gamma Rays; Analysis of Experimental Scattering of D(d,n) Neutrons from a Plane of Palaminum; Gamma Spectrum of the Bulk Shielding Reactor; Prompt Fission Gamma Rays; Broad Beam Gamma Attenuations; Lithium Iodide Crystals; Air Duct Tests; The SemiAnalytical Method of Shield Design; Reactor Leakage for Shielding Calculations; Fast Neutron Dosimetry; Capture Gamma Ray Studies; Energy Effects in Reactor Shields; Numerical Studies of Non-Axial Distributions from Disk Sources of Radiation; Calculation of the Bremsstrahlung from Li/sup 8/ Electrons. (T.R.H.)

Research Organization:
Division of Reactor Development, AEC
NSA Number:
NSA-12-015990
OSTI ID:
4312372
Report Number(s):
WASH-152(Del.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English