Company ships all forms of radiation protection products, including lead shielding, lead bricks, lead glass, lead sheetrock and lead safety clothing.
Cambridge, MA December 15, 2014 – Nuclead a leading manufacturer and distributor of lead shielding and radiation safety clothing products announces the recent delivery of several orders for lead shielding, radiation shielding and lead safety clothing to customers throughout the United States.
Nuclead has extensive experience and capabilities in the areas of radiation shielding for applications such as X-ray shielding, MRI shielding, nuclear shielding and neutron shielding and can provide significant radiation protection for workers in the medical and nuclear industries.
Lead is an ideal material to use for radiation shielding due to its high density – the radiation getting through falls exponentially with the thickness of the shield. In the case of lead the radiation is half by using a layer of lead that is only 0.4 inches thick
Radiation shielding is in many forms in nuclear facilities lead bricks are often used to create radiation walls. In x-ray facilities, the rooms are lined with lead sheetrock, operators stay behind a leaded X-ray glass and wear lead aprons.
Nuclead has available all forms of lead shielding and has the capabilities to custom manufacture items to specific demands, listed below are several examples of recent shipments of lead shielding and lead safety clothing:
- A Lead x-ray glass window with lead lined window frame was cut, fabricated and shipped to a doctor’s office for their x-ray room in El Centro, CA
- Lead shielding sold to a funeral home OEM in Big Lake, MN
- 1/2″ lead shielding, sold to an X-ray Imaging original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in San Jose, CA
- Lead shielding was cut and shipped to a veterinary hospital for their x-ray room in Cary, NC
- We shipped a lead filled blanket for radiation protection to a publication OEM in Sherbrooke, QC – Canada
- Nuclead fabricated and shipped lead shielding, sold to an equipment manufacture in Saco, ME for radiation shielding
- Fabricated and shipped lead shielding with Pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) applied to one side. The PSA will adhere the lead shielding in areas that require protection of x-ray equipment for a municipality in Idaho.
- We shipped for in stock inventory, a quantity of Lead shielding that was sold to a medical device manufacturer in Miami, FL
- For a custom lead shielding application the customer required us to pour a custom casting of lead into cavities and machine the lead shielding items to the customer’s specifications. This was sold to an equipment manufacturer in Ipswich, MA
- Nuclead fabricated, painted, and shipped, per customer specifications, lead shielding to a National Laboratory in Upton, NY
- We fabricated and shipped a large lead shielding brick to the Nebraska Public Power District, Cooper Nuclear Station. Cooper Nuclear Station is a hot water nuclear reactor, located near Brownville, Nebraska on the Missouri River. It is the largest single-unit electrical generator in Nebraska.
- Nuclead also CNC Machined lead x-ray shielding assemblies, to customer blue prints, and specifications.
- Fabricated and shipped, per Military standards, pure lead shielding for a packaging fabricator in Bensalem, PA
- Cut and shipped from in stock inventory lead x-ray glass, which was sold to a general contractor in Gold River, CA
- We also fabricated and shipped a large construction package to a general contractor who is working on an x-ray room in Newington, CT, Package consists of lead x-ray glass, lead lined sheet rock, lead lined window frames, and lead flashing rolls.
No matter what type of radiation protection is required, from lead bricks to lead sheet to lead glass to lead safety clothing, Nuclead has the inventory, experience and expertise to meet any need.
About Nuclead
Nuclead Mfg. Co Inc. is the leading worldwide supplier of innovative lead shielding, and X-ray inspection products. With nearly 30 years in providing advanced Shielding & X-ray security systems, the Company’s product line utilizes a combination of technologies, and expertise unmatched by any other company.
These technologies offer superior service and products. Nuclead’s has a complete range of lead products – including pure lead and lead alloys which are used in applications such as shielding for cargo inspection, baggage screening and passenger screening systems for facility and aviation security.
Nuclead also supplies products for the Nuclear & energy, Oil, Construction, Manufacturing, X-ray, medical & research, Elevator, Marine/boating, Bridge and Sporting industries.
Nuclead’s sophisticated products are used to protect high-threat facilities and help combat terrorism and trade fraud; Gamma ray, Neutron, & X-ray shielding; and counterweight – ballast- & weight requirements.
Nuclead customers include major universities & research centers, leading Government agencies, military bases, general contractors, manufactures, hospitals and corporations worldwide; including the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and branches of the U.S. Military.
For more information on Nuclead’s products, services and technologies, please visit https://www.nuclead.com or http://www.nucleadinc.com