Abstract
The first part of this article is a survey of the work of foreign authors dealing with the economics of using various concretes for biological radiation shielding at nuclear reactors and at charged particle accelerators. Several of these authors affirm that it is economically justifiable to use heavy concretes for these purposes. However, others advocate the use of common concretes with mineral aggregates. The second part of the article gives the results of corresponding economic analyses conducted in the USSR. These analyses lead to the conclusion that the use of special heavy concretes is justifiable only in exceptional cases.
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Komarovskii, A.N. Evaluating the economic feasibility of using special heavy concretes for radiation shielding. The Soviet Journal of Atomic Energy 4, 573–578 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01497932
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01497932