| Summary: | A new concrete, containing galena mineral, with enhanced shielding properties
for gamma sources is developed. To achieve optimized shielding properties,
ten types of galena concrete containing different mixing ratios and a
reference normal concrete of 2300 kg/m3 density are studied experimentally
and numerically using Monte Carlo and XCOM codes. For building galena
concrete, in addition to the main composition, micro-silica and water, galena
mineral (containing lead) were used. The built samples have high density of
4470 kg/m3 to 5623 kg/m3 and compressive strength of 628 kg/m2 to 685 kg/m2.
The half and tenth value layers (half value layer and tenth value layers) for
the galena concrete, when irradiated with 137Cs gamma source, were found to
be 1.45 cm and 4.94 cm, respectively. When irradiated with 60Co gamma source,
half value layer was measured to be 2.42 cm. The computation modeling by
FLUKA and XCOM shows a good agreement between experimental and computational
results.
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