In this study, the authors emphasized an incisive purpose as the valorization of waste soda–lime–silicate glass (SLS) for a potential gamma-rays shielding material. For this, xTa₂O₅-(100-x)SLS glass systems where x: 0, 0.005, 0.05, and 0.5 wt% were fabricated via conventional melting technique. The synthesized four glass specimens (RG and RGT1 to RGT3) were then subjected to physical, optical, and radiation shielding measurements. Simulation studies (MCNP-5) and theoretical computations (XCOM) were conducted to validate the findings. The results clearly showed that the insertion of Ta₂O₅ improved both physical and optical properties. In particular, RGT3, having a higher amount, possessed the highest glass density (ρ_glass) and refractive index (n) values. On the other hand, the transmission factor (TF) data revealed that increasing the thickness of the glass sample caused a notable decrease in the TF values. RG decreases from 92.233% to 78.461%, 61.562%, and 48.302% for thicknesses of 0.5 cm, 1.5 cm, 3 cm, and 4.5 cm. RGT3 shows the best radiation shielding potential out of the investigated waste SLS samples according to the several radiation shielding factors.

在这项研究中，作者强调了一个敏锐的目的，那就是对废钠钙硅酸盐玻璃（SLS）进行增值，以作为潜在的伽马射线屏蔽材料。为此，通过常规熔融技术制造了x：0、0.005、0.05和0.5 wt％的xTa ₂ O _5-（100-x）SLS玻璃系统。然后对合成的四个玻璃样品（RG和RGT1至RGT3）进行物理，光学和辐射屏蔽测量。进行了仿真研究（MCNP-5）和理论计算（XCOM）以验证发现。结果清楚地表明，插入Ta ₂ O ₅改善了物理和光学性质。特别是含量较高的RGT3，其玻璃密度最高（ρ_玻璃）和折射率（n）值。另一方面，透射系数（TF）数据表明，增加玻璃样品的厚度会导致TF值显着下降。对于0.5 cm，1.5 cm，3 cm和4.5 cm的厚度，RG从92.233％降至78.461％，61.562％和48.302％。根据多个辐射屏蔽因素，RGT3在研究的废SLS样品中显示出最佳的辐射屏蔽潜力。