Analytic flux formulas and tables of shielding functions

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6450853· OSTI ID:6450853

Wallace, O J

Hand calculations of radiation flux and dose rates are often useful in evaluating radiation shielding and in determining the scope of a problem. The flux formulas appropriate to such calculations are almost always based on the point kernel and allow for at most the consideration of laminar slab shields. These formulas often require access to tables of values of integral functions for effective use. Flux formulas and function tables appropriate to calculations involving homogeneous source regions with the shapes of lines, disks, slabs, truncated cones, cylinders, and spheres are presented. Slab shields may be included in most of these calculations, and the effect of a cylindrical shield surrounding a cylindrical source may be estimated. Detector points may be located axially, laterally, or interior to a cylindrical source. Line sources may be tilted with respect to a slab shield. All function tables are given for a wide range of arguments.

• Research Organization: Bettis Atomic Power Lab., West Mifflin, PA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC11-76PN00014
• OSTI ID: 6450853
• Report Number(s): WAPD-TM-1453; ON: DE81026559
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
ABSORPTION
ATTENUATION
BARYONS
BUILDUP
CALCULATION METHODS
CONES
CONFIGURATION
CYLINDERS
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
DOSE RATES
DOSES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
EQUATIONS
FERMIONS
GAMMA RADIATION
HADRONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
IRON
KERNELS
LEAD
MATERIALS
METALS
NEUTRAL-PARTICLE TRANSPORT
NEUTRON TRANSPORT
NEUTRONS
NUCLEONS
NUMERICAL DATA
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOTON TRANSPORT
POINT KERNELS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION FLUX
RADIATION TRANSPORT
RADIATIONS
SELF-ABSORPTION
SHIELDING
SHIELDING MATERIALS
SLABS
SPHERES
TABLES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
WATER