Another spacecraft with radiation shields was Skylab, which needed a radiation shield over a borosilicate glass window to stop it darkening, and several film vaults.
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During reactor operation, radiation from the core goes into the reflector but doesn't escape the pool of water, which acts as a backup radiation shield.
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Another spacecraft with radiation shields was Skylab, which needed a radiation shield over a borosilicate glass window to stop it darkening, and several film vaults.
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With most designs the radioisotope is lowered into a water-filled source storage pool, which absorbs radiation and allows maintenance personnel to enter the radiation shield.
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Despite what the travel books say, you can survive without a radiation shield for film, a roll of duct tape, or a stopper for hotel sinks.
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The ISIM is at about 40k ( in part thanks to the sunsheild ), then there is a MIRI radiation shield beyond which the temperature is 20 k.
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Such a radiation shield would be particularly useful on an interplanetary trip or on Mars, which, unlike Earth, has no magnetic field to trap solar radiation above the planet.
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Other improvements to the vacuum flask include the " vapour-cooled radiation shield " and the " vapour-cooled neck ", both of which help to reduce evaporation from the flask.
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If the total area of the collectors are larger than the radiation shield the LDR would serve to cool itself rather than the shield for the ship's main components.
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In contrast, sodium will form the potent gamma emitter sodium-24 ( half-life 15 hours ) following intense neutron radiation, requiring a large radiation shield for the primary cooling loop.
