Inventors:
Anthony M. Moscaritolo - Saugus MA, US
James Claude King - Albuquerque NM, US
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC
International Classification:
G21C 19/00
Abstract:
A radiation case having a radiation-proof door, and having a radiation-proof main section that has a back portion, a floor portion, a ceiling portion and side portions, vertical cavities formed in the back portion, the vertical cavities being a distance from a surface of a back wall of the back portion, radiation rods located in the vertical cavities, each radiation rod containing cobalt-60 pellet, the distance between the vertical cavities and the surface of the back wall of the back portion being less than a penetration distance for gamma rays coming out of each cobalt-60 pellet.