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NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 5, Pages 1642-1651Publisher
KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2020.11.006
Keywords
Electromagnetic radiation; Radiation shielding; Composite shielding; Tungsten; Neopentyl glycol polyester
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- Mugla Sitki Kocman University [2014/016]
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The study prepared tungsten composites based on NPG-PES as alternative shielding materials for IEMR, characterized their structure and performed gamma spectrometric analysis. The produced composites showed comparable or even better shielding performance than lead, indicating they could be a potential alternative to lead shieldings.
In this study, isophtalic neopentyl glycol polyester (NPG-PES) based composites with different loading ratios of pure tungsten metal (W), tungsten (VI) oxide (WO3), tungsten boron (WB) and tungsten carbide (WC) composites were prepared as alternative shielding materials for ionizing electromagnetic radiation (IEMR) shielding. Structural characterizations of the composites were done. Gamma spectrometric analysis of composites for 80-2000 keV energy range was performed and their usability as IEMR shielding was discussed. As a result, the produced composites showed a shielding performance of 60-100% of the lead (the most widely used IEMR shielding material) depending on the reinforcement material, reinforcement loading rate and experimental conditions. Thus, it was reported that produced composites could be an alternative to lead shieldings that have several disadvantages as toxic properties, difficulty of processing and inelasticity. (C) 2020 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC.
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