lead lined walls?

[ColJack]

got the dentists on monday and it's got me thinking about the x-ray machine they use..
surely they have to have lead lined walls and partitions to prevent the people in the accountants next door getting a repeated dose of radiation?

if that's the case ( and it is in hospitals ), then what's the deal with penetrations for sockets and light switches and so on?

even a screw hole could cause some poor bloke next door to get a brain tumour from repeated exposure if his desk happened to be in exactly the wrong spot..

 

[ericmark]

It seems the next up-date of 17th Edition has special section on Hospitals. There are it seems some special rules for hospitals.

 

[Chri5]

Dental x rays are very low powered

 

[flameport]

The walls should be plastered with this

 

[ColJack]

they actually make plasterboard with a 3mm lead sheet on the back for stud partitions.. which is more the thing I was thinking about..
if you cut out a hole for the a fast fix box you breach the shielding..

 

[electronicsuk]

if you cut out a hole for the a fast fix box you breach the shielding..

I'm sure barriers are available for such applications, just as they are to fit behind single/double gang backboxes in fireproof walls and the like.