The products shipped will be used in various radiation shielding applications to provide protection to workers and the general public
Cambridge, MA December 24, 2015 – Nuclead a leading manufacturer and distributor of lead radiation shielding products announces the recent delivery of several orders for various custom forms of lead radiation shielding products to customers throughout the United States
What is Lead Radiation Shielding?
Many applications particularly in the medical field, in the nuclear industry and the military use various forms of radiation for diagnostic and power generation purposes. Since radiation is generally harmful to life, steps must be taken to prevent excessive or unnecessary exposure. Lead radiation shielding, can be any product made of lead that is configured to provide shielding of radiation sources.
Lead is an ideal material for radiation shielding, due to its high density. Radiation is reduced exponentially as it travels through lead. In addition, lead can be easily formed into any desired configuration by molding, machining, bending or pressing.
Nuclead supplies lead radiation shielding in many forms including lead sheet, lead bricks, lead sheetrock, lead aprons as well as custom built forms to customer drawings. Below are several examples of recent shipments.
Recent Deliveries of Lead Radiation Shielding Products
- Fabricate and ship: Per customer specifications & blueprints, Lead shielding laminated to Stainless Steel radiation shielding X-ray tunnels. Sold to various customers that use x-rays, for scanning items for security purposes.
- Fabricate and ship per customer blueprints. Lead radiation protection items. Sold to a military facility in Florida for a research and development project. The experiment supposed to measure radiation for different sized lead shields provided over the course of three orders this past summer; and last week.
- Fabricated and shipped per customer blueprints. Lead radiation protection tunnels. This system is a prototype for a Worldwide LTL carrier used to scan packages from terrorist threats. Nuclead has previously published an article on radiation shielding Subassemblies for Backscatter X-ray Machines, please click to read the article.
Fabricate and ship several sizes, configurations and quantities of lead shielding materials. Sold to Honeywell for installation in a national nuclear site for radiation protection installation. - We also fabricated and shipped a large construction package to a general contractor who is working on an x-ray room in Newington, CT. The package consisted of lead x-ray glass, lead lined sheetrock, lead lined window frames, and lead flashing rolls.
- Lead lined sheetrock order was shipped – this product was sold to an animal hospital in Fairfax, VA for their x-ray room.
- 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 radiation 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 radiation 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
- Nuclead fabricated and shipped lead radiation shielding, sold to an equipment manufacture in Saco, ME for radiation shielding
- Fabricated and shipped lead x-ray glass, and lead lined doors. Sold to a general contractor in Puerto Rico for a new radiation department at a local hospital.
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