Offering exceptional levels of safety, SCHOTT Radiation Shielding Glasses ensure those working in potentially hazardous environments, from nuclear facilities to hospital x-ray rooms, receive the fullest possible protection.

Reassuring protection
There’s no room for compromise when it comes to working with radiation, so SCHOTT Radiation Shielding Glasses have been carefully designed to effectively protect people from ionizing radiation such as gamma and x-rays. The glass design can be customized to suit a variety of equipment in nuclear and medical facilities.

Advanced processing for outstanding quality
By using the same high quality equipment and advanced processes that produce SCHOTT's renowned range of optical glass, our radiation shielding glass offers outstanding quality, reliable effectiveness, and superior internal transmission, even after extended exposure to high radiation doses.

Product variants
SCHOTT’s collection of radiation shielding glass provides wide-ranging protection across a number of critical industries. RD 30® and RD 50® are particularly effective in the medical world and are used in x-ray and mammography facilities, operating rooms and dental practices, while the five RS series glasses are successfully deployed in the nuclear industry.

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Internal quality every time
The glass maintains excellent internal transmission even after long-term exposure to large doses of radiation, while it exhibits outstanding internal quality in terms of bubbles, inclusions and striae. Some designs in the RS series can also withstand extremely high cumulated radiation levels without shield failure from solarization or electrostatic discharge.

SCHOTT are certified
RD 50® meets the requirements of the German Institute for Standardization, European Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission.

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