zapkitty wrote:
With Radiations Shield Technologies Demron…
… but it’s as dense as lead.
Oooooooops… my apologies. I had looked at the wrong figure for the density..
Demron density is actually only 3.14 g/cm^3.
If the shielding scales well for greater thicknesses this would be interesting…
The halving thickness of lead is 1 cm and that of water is 18 cm so with Demron you’d get ~18x the shielding of water for only 3.14x the mass.
If 5.5 cm of Demron equals 100 cm of water then it’d be 17.27 grams per sq cm shielded vs 100 grams/sq cm for water and ~4.2 tons minimum per module becomes ~724 kilograms.
If so then arranging the cores becomes much easier as well.
