All About Tungsten Alloy Radiation Shield
Tungsten alloys are good at attenuating ionizing radiation but not very dense. This property of tungsten makes ideal tungsten shielding for several applications like in nuclear medicine in the nuclear field. The attenuate radiation ability of tungsten is expressed in the tenth layer thickness. The thickness of the tungsten plate needs to reduce the transmitted radiation to one-tenth of incident radiation.
Tungsten alloy radiation shielding advantage:
Specialists concluded that the alloy radiation disclosure can reduce by maxing the shielding. The material density is interrelated with the radiation protection ability. Here the higher density of the material means the better absorbing and stopping the rays of radiation. Because of the high density, the tungsten radiation shielding has higher absorbing and stopping ability of rays as compared to other metals like lead, the traditional radiation shielding. Tungsten shielding has greater gamma linear attenuation radiations which mean less is needed for equal shielding. Otherwise, tungsten shielding equal amounts deliver reduced exposure risks than the same lead. Heavy tungsten alloy is the right material for the radiation shielding for protection. This heavy alloy is a combination of radiographic density, good corrosion resistance, machinability, simplified life cycle, high radiation absorption, and very high strength. The tungsten alloy radiation shielding can provide the sale protection level as lead and depleted uranium. This shielding is more environmentally friendly than lead and depleted uranium.
Tungsten alloy radiation shielding applications:
The tungsten alloy radiation shielding usage is used in nuclear medicine like isotope container, collimator, cancer treatment source holder, etc.
List of application:
- Holders for oil well-logging
- Radioactive source containers
- Shileidng block
- Shielding for cancer therapy machines
- PET syringe shield
- Gamma radiography radiation shielding
- Radioactive injections syringe protection
- Syringe shielding
- Nuclear wall shielding
- FDG container
- Inspect welds
- Nuclear shielding power plant
- Nuclear testing equipment
- Devices for large container inspection
- In the production, transportation, and contamination of isotope
- Barrel radiation shielding
- Nuclear submarines defense
- For emergency responders, Personal protection equipment
- Container inspection devices
- Gamma Pipe-line inspection
Tungsten alloy collimators:
A device which is designed to narrow the particle beam or waves is known as the tungsten alloy collimators. They can adapt to medical treatment like linear accelerator and cyclotron. Tungsten alloy collimator gives significantly to radiotherapy successfully through high density and high shielding capability alongside gamma rays and X-rays.
