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Answer to Question #62 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Radiation Basics — Radiation Shielding The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
Where would the 2 mr/hr distance be if 2 cm of a shielding material with a linear attenuation coefficient of 0.4 cm-1 were wrapped around the source? Could you please send me the calculations/formulas used in the solving of this problem? Thank you, Garry Bowman
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The answer to your question requires the use of equations and, therefore, is presented in a PDF file. Download the following Portable Document Format file to complete the answer to your question: q62.pdf
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