The research team (NEAL) from the University of South China has made significant progress in nuclear reactor radiation-shielding design. The team has developed a radiation-shielding optimization ...

Use shielding to minimize exposure while handling and storing ... Uranium can pose a slight external hazard mainly from low-energy gamma and beta radiation when directly handling the material ...

Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor primary ...

The average background radiation should be calculated and used to adjust measurements taken during both the distance and shielding labs that follow. Background radiation should be subtracted from ...

However, designing effective radiation shielding for these reactors poses significant challenges due to tight spatial constraints, strict weight limits, and complex material interactions.