Question: How much water shielding do you require, if you want to reduce the intensity of a 1 0 0 keV monoenergetic X - ray beam

 How much water shielding do you require, if you want to reduce the intensity of a 100 keV monoenergetic X-ray beam (narrow beam) to 1% of its incident intensity? The half value layer for 100 keV X-rays in water is 4.15cm and the linear attenuation coefficient for 100keV X-rays in water is 0.167 cm-1. 

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