[ RadSafe ] Re: tailings cover for gamma attenuation

[Mark Sonter]

Hi all,

Does anyone out there in Radsafe Land have good, preferably 
experimental, info on the Half-Value Layer for sand or soil capping over 
thorium-bearing tailings from mineral processing plants (either mineral 
sands dry plants or rare earths extraction plants)?? The thickness 
required *for gamma attenuation* is likely to be greater than for 
uranium tails because of the dominant 2.6 MeV from Thallium versus the 
609 keV from Bismuth 214...

Dan McCarn? Phil Edigi?? Dr Parthasarathy? Anybody else??

Cheers,

Mark Sonter

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