Chicago Pile-1 was disassembled and rebuilt, this time with a radiation shield, at Site A . The reactor, now known as Chicago Pile-2, was operational again on March 20, 1943.
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For this reason some proposed lunar or martian settlements comprise metal habitats sent from earth that are buried in the regolith, the local material providing the bulk of the radiation shield.
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The corollary is that high-" Z " materials make good gamma-ray shields, which is the principal reason that lead ( " Z " = 82 ) is a preferred and ubiquitous gamma radiation shield.
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Lead is often used as a radiation shield for x-rays and gamma rays; its density is 11 g / cm ^ 3, so the weight of the disk would then be 1.4x10 15 tons.
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At low altitudes where the surrounding air is dense gamma scattering could potentially harm the crew without a radiation shield, a radiation refuge would also be necessary on long missions to survive solar flares.
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Don is described as handsome and bronzed, but is revealed to be a partial cyborg who wears a coppery radiation shield over his entire body, to protect him while helping to pilot a starship.
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In future manned interplanetary spacecraft, 10 B has a theoretical role as structural material ( as boron fibers or BN nanotube material ) which would also serve a special role in the radiation shield.
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The shuttle crew is also delivering an Italian-built cargo carrier named Raffaello holds nearly 10, 000 pounds of gear, including running slats for a broken treadmill, radiation shields, mufflers for noisy equipment, clothes, towels and science experiments.
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The electronic structure of tungsten makes it one of the main sources for X-ray targets, and also for shielding from high-energy radiations ( such as in the radiopharmaceutical industry for shielding radioactive samples of shot, and radiation shields.
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To unload them, they were pushed all the way through to the far ( west ) end, where they fell onto a neoprene slab and fell down a chute into a deep pool of water that acted as a radiation shield.
