Tungsten Radiation Shielding Advantage

Tungsten Radiation Shielding Advantage

Experts find that radiation exposure can be reduced by maximizing shielding. Tungsten radiation shielding advantage: high density, small volume, etc. The radiation stopping ability of a material is related to its density. Higher density means better stopping power and shielding. Because of its a higher density, tungsten alloy has much higher radiation absorption ability than lead. Its greater linear attenuation of gamma radiations means that less material is required for equal shielding. Alternatively equal amounts of tungsten alloy radioactive shielding provides diminished exposure risks than equivalent lead shielding. 

Compared to traditional radiation shielding materials such as lead and boron carbide, tungsten alloy radioactive shielding provides excellent density with small capacity. At the same weights high density alloy can provide the same energy absorption as lead using 1/3 less material. When the weight is certain, more density, and the thickness would be thinner. Tungsten alloy radioactive shielding material could be made with thinner thickness but high absorption of radiation in high density. That is why tungsten alloy radioactive shielding material is poplar to make radiation shielding.
  

Radiation Shielding Material

Radiation Shielding Material

Tungsten and tungsten heavy alloy in metallic form and tungsten compounds are used in various forms of tungsten heavy alloy radiationshielding. Their high densities meet the primary requirement of a tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding material and in certain tungsten radiation shielding application, tungsten's high atomic number is also important. The ease with which tungsten can be worked is of added value. The tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding of containers for radioactive materials is usually metallic tungsten. Radioactive materials in laboratories and hospitals are usually handled by remote control from a position of safety behind a wall of tungsten bricks and X-ray machines are normally installed in rooms lined with sheet tungsten. 

Lead

Lead is an important material because of its property to radiate the harmful radiation, thus acting as a shield in place of nuclear works and X-ray regions. Tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding is better than lead shielding for tungsten radiation shielding is no harmful. 

The main role of lead metal in nuclear industry is to avoid the radiation to escape out of the reactor. It basically acts as a shield for the harmful radiations that are produced at the time of nuclear process.

Boron carbide 

Boron carbide has high melting point (boron carbide ℃), super hardness 245, low density (2.529 / cm3) and stable chemical properties, tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding is applied in wear-resistant materials, engineering ceramics and aerospace materials, etc. with the development of nuclear technology and boron carbide, people found that boron has high absorptive capacity of thermal neutron, low energy secondary radiation generated,  high temperature resistant and, resistance to radiation. So people pay more and more attention to boron carbide as nuclear reactor and nuclear tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding materials. Tungsten radiation shielding products is our leader products.
  

Tungsten Radiation Shielding Application

Tungsten Radiation Shielding Application

Tungsten heavy alloy is a best choices for tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding applications, in both medical and industrial settings. Tungsten alloys radiation shield provide excellent alternative for traditional radiation shielding materials. High-density tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding can provide the same energy absorption as lead using 1/3 less material. People are taking advantage of tungsten alloy’s reliable radiation shielding properties. 

Our tungsten heavy alloy radiation shieldings are used for radioactive source containers, gamma radiography, shields, and industrial instrumentation. The tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding is also serving as collimators and radiation shielding in cancer therapy, as well as syringe protection for radioactive injections.

Tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding gives you best protection from the harmful radiation. Meet to the AMS 21014 and ASTM B777 material standard, we can offer tungsten heavy alloy radiation shielding with finished machining by CNC according to clients drawings.
   

Tungsten Alloy Housing Shielding

Tungsten Alloy Housing Shielding

With rapid development of medical science, more and more radiation instruments are used in our lives. Medical instruments and nuclear power stations have become widespread and are now affecting all our lives. It is essential that people paid more attention to radiation and even more important for the institutions to protect public from the radiation exposure and to make sure to protect every radiation source of X-ray radiation, gamma radiation (energetic electromagnetic radiation), radiation of alpha particles (helium atoms) beta particles (electrons) and cosmic radiation, etc. 

In order to protect patients and personnel from harmful effects of ionizing radiation, such as breast cancer, skin cancer, etc an excellent radiation-absorbing medium is badly needed. Tungsten alloy housing shielding is the material to be used for radiation shielding.

Tungsten alloy is ideal for tungsten alloy radiation shielding against X-rays and gamma radiation. The very high density of tungsten alloy housing shielding (more than 60% denser than lead) allows a reduction in the physical size of shielding components, without compromising their rigidity or the effectiveness of the tungsten alloy radiation shielding characteristics. 
 

Tungsten Alloy Radiation Container

Tungsten Alloy Radiation Container

Tungsten alloy is a suitable raw material for tungsten alloy radiation container, because of tungsten alloy radiation container combination of radiographic density (more than 60% denser than lead), good machinability, good corrosion resistance, high radiation absorption (superior to lead), simplified life cycle and high strength. Tungsten alloy radiation shielding can provide the same degree of protection as lead whilst significantly reducing the overall volume and thickness of shields and containers. Moreover, compared with lead or depleted uranium, tungsten alloy is more acceptable in this case, for it is non-toxic and environmentally friendly material. 

During design of shielding, tungsten alloy radiation shielding is calculated according to requirements of shield to abate the multiple shielding materials’ thickness.

Formula: K = e0.693 d / △1/2 

K: Shield weakened multiple

△ 1/2: The shielding material of the half-value layer values 

d: Shielding thickness, with the half-value layer thickness of their units, you need to half-value layer thickness of the quality of translation into the thickness of the material, divided by the density of the material can be obtained.
  

Tungsten Alloy Radiation Shielding

Tungsten Alloy Radiation Shielding

With rapid development of medical science, more and more radiation instruments are used in our lives. Medical instruments and nuclear power stations have become widespread and are now affecting all our lives. It is essential that people paid more attention to radiation and even more important for the institutions to protect public from the radiation exposure and to make sure to protect every radiation source of X-ray radiation, gamma radiation (energetic electromagnetic radiation), radiation of alpha particles (helium atoms) beta particles (electrons) and cosmic radiation, etc. 

In order to protect patients, doctors, nurses and other people who may be exposed to radiation, sources of the radiation must be safely separated and shielded. It is crucial that holding and delivery instruments for radioactive materials would keep the radiation levels low enough, not to create harmful effects of ionizing radiation such as breast cancer, skin cancer, etc. Lead and steel are the traditional protection materials, but tungsten alloy radiation shielding is without a doubt the best solution. Excellent radiation-absorption, twice the density of lead and good physical resistance are main reasons to use tungsten alloy radiation shielding.