Abstract
The present work attempts to increase the benefit of using calcium fluoride based slag, which considers as waste material after remelting of advanced steel by an electro slag remelting (ESR) process, as one of innovative material for nuclear shielding applications. This work differentiates between the neutron shielding properties of different types of steel slag waste, types of stainless steel and ordinary concrete. The total and partial neutron interactions have been done in the energy range of 10−5 eV–20 MeV using Monte Carlo program. The dependence of total and partial neutron macroscopic cross sections (MaCSs) on incident neutron energy and elemental composition has been evaluated. Besides, the total and partial microscopic cross sections (MiCSs) were determined via the total and partial MaCSs. It was found that the rutile has higher total MaCSs and MiCSs than the other investigated materials. This study should be useful for potential application of these materials in the field of nuclear radiation for choice of neutron shielding materials.
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