Shielding & Nuclear
Extremely High Shielding Performance
Containers and shielding for radioactive materials.
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DENSALLOY™ Tungsten Heavy Alloys are ideal for shielding against X rays and gamma radiation. DENSALLOY™ tungsten shielding is more than 60% denser than lead, allowing a reduction in the size of shielding components, without compromising their shielding effectiveness and characteristics.
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DENSALLOY™ Tungsten Heavy Alloy shielding can be used in applications such as:
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Collimators
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Nuclear shielding
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Beamstop
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PET syringe shields
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Vial shields
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Isotope containers
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FDG containers
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Multi-leaf collimator
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DENSALLOY™ Tungsten Heavy Alloys
Benefits and Applications
DENSALLOY™ Tungsten Heavy Alloy products with extreme density to ensure the highest possible shielding performance in the smallest of spaces:
Shielding components
Source container
Collimators
Application examples of DENSALLOY™ Tungsten Heavy Alloys shielding:
Transport container for radioactive substances
Radiation source holder in measuring devices
Radiation shielding of radioactive substances in chemotherapy
Collimator sheets in magnetic resonance tomographs
DENSALLOY™ Tungsten Heavy Alloys
Advantages vs. Lead
DENSALLOY™ Tungsten Heavy Alloys Advantages
+ Mass density 18.7g / cm³
+ physically and chemically stable
+ environmentally friendly
Shortcomings of Lead
Mass density of lead 13.2g / cm³
Physically and chemically unstable
Environmentally harmful