IAEA1434 U-SHIELDER.

U-SHIELDER, Estimates Shielding Thickness of Depleted Uranium for Photons from 0.5 to 10 MeV

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHODS, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, STATUS, REFERENCES, HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: U-SHIELDER

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
U-SHIELDER	IAEA1434/01	Tested	13-MAR-2012

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
IAEA1434/01	IBM PC	PC Windows

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

U-Shielder calculates shielding thickness of Depleted Uranium for any photon emitting radionuclide in the energy range 0.5 to 10 MeV.

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4. METHODS

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

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

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

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

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

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
IAEA1434/01	13-MAR-2012	Screened

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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.

IAEA1434/01, included references:

- Jahan Zeb, Waheed Arshed, Abdul Rashid, Perveen Akhter:
Gamma Shielding by Depleted Uranium (U-Shielder Manual), March, 2012

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11. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: IBM PC or compatible

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
IAEA1434/01	TURBO-C++

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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.

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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

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

IAEA1434/01

S-U-SH-f.CPP Source code
T1-SHI~1.CPP Source code
U-Shielder.EXE Executable
U-Shielder-manual.pdf User's manual in PDF format

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17. CATEGORIES