TY - JOUR AU - AB - S., Singh, G. and Thind, K.S. (2017) Gam- Using steel slag and two types of (soft and hard) iron slags, ten samples were ma Radiation Shielding Properties of Steel and Iron Slags. New Journal of Glass and prepared. Different gamma radiation interaction parameters were computed Ceramics, 7, 1-11. theoretically and measured experimentally at different energies: 60 keV, 136 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/njgc.2017.71001 keV, 662 keV, 1173 keV and 1332 keV in low and medium energy range using narrow transmission geometry. It has been observed that shielding effective- Received: October 11, 2016 ness of a sample is inversely proportional to Half Value Layer (HVL). The ob- Accepted: December 19, 2016 Published: December 22, 2016 tained results were compared with Pure Flyash and it was observed that slag is better aggregate than flyash in shielding radiation as well as in construction Copyright © 2017 by authors and applications. The results have been presented in the form of tables and graphs Scientific Research Publishing Inc. with more useful conclusions. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). Keywords http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Mass Attenuation Coefficient, Effective Atomic Number, Half Value Layer Open Access 1. Introduction Gamma radiation interaction is the most accurate, TI - Gamma Radiation Shielding Properties of Steel and Iron Slags JF - New Journal of Glass and Ceramics DO - 10.4236/njgc.2017.71001 DA - 2017-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/gamma-radiation-shielding-properties-of-steel-and-iron-slags-XkC8YfFeYJ DP - DeepDyve ER -