Concrete of various type have been used extensively for the adequate shielding of the radiological equipment using X and gamma rays. In its basic form, concrete is composed of pieces of inert aggregate held together by hardened cement paste. Dierent concrete types with special cements have been prepared. The linear attenuation coecients of conventional concrete and concrete with supplementary mineral additives (barite and witherite) at dierent gamma energies (Co-60: 1.25 MeV, Cs-137: 0.662 MeV, Ir-192: 0.37 MeV) in narrow beam conditions have been measured. This paper includes some experimental data regarding the inuence of barite and witherite additives on photon attenuation coecients of concrete.
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Fugaru et al. (2015) studied this question.