IAEA1432 AL-SHIELDER.

1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM:  AL-SHIELDER

3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

Al-Shielder calculates shielding thickness of Aluminum for any photon emitting radionuclide between 0.5 to 10 MeV.

4. METHODS

Al-Shielder assumes the radionuclide(s) as a point source and uses Taylor form of the buildup factor to calculate shielding thickness.

5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

- Al-Shielder works in the photon energy range of 0.5 to 10 MeV.
- Suitable for radionuclides/sources of small dimensions.

6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The running time of the Al-Shielder program is 15 to 30 seconds, depending upon the speed of computer and attenuation required.

10. REFERENCES

1) R. G. Jaeger, E. P. Blizard, A.B. Chilton, M.Grotenhuis, A. Honig, Th. A. Jaeger, H. H. Eisenlohr:
Engineering Compendium on Radiation Shielding, volume I, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, New York, U.S.A. 1968.
2) Paul-Friedrich Sauermann:
Radiation Protection by Shielding, Nuclear Research Center Julich, Verlag Karl Thiemig, Munchen, Germany, 1976.

- Jahan Zeb, Waheed Arshed, Abdul Rashid, Perveen Akhter:
Gamma Shielding by Aluminum (Al-Shielder Manual) (March, 2010)

11. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

IBM PC or compatible.
The package was tested at the NEA Data Bank on a Dell Workstation PWS670, XEON, 2.66 GHz.

13. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

This software is tested on computers with the following operating systems:
PC-DOS or MS-DOS;
Window 95, 97, 98, 2000, Millennium;
Window XP with DOSBox 0.72.
  
The package was tested at the NEA Data Bank with DOS, under Windows XP Pro.

15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

Jahan Zeb, Waheed Arshed, Abdul Rashid, Perveen Akhter
Health Physics Division
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (PINSTECH)
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
P. O. Nilore
Islamabad
Pakistan

S-AL-SH.cpp Source code
T-AL-SH.cpp Source code
Al-SHIELDER.exe    Executable
Al-shielding-manual.pdf  User's manual in PDF format