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Title: A simple albedo technique for calculating dose rate from scattered gamma rays

Journal Article · · Radiation Protection Management; (United States)
OSTI ID:5198678
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  1. Stone and Webster Engineering Corp. (US)

This paper reports that the flux type concrete dose albedo for normally incident gamma rays is approximately a function of gamma energy only, regardless of the emerging angles. The flux type albedo for normally emerging gamma rays is also roughly a constant value over a wide range of incident angles for gamma energy greater than 0.66 MeV. Two concrete albedo curves are plotted as a function of gamma energy for a convenient estimation of the scatter dose rate.

OSTI ID:
5198678
Journal Information:
Radiation Protection Management; (United States), Vol. 7:1; ISSN 0740-0640
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English