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It would not have holes in it. The main reason why the gamma radiation makes it through is because it never interacted with any of the lead. And even if a (unlucky) gamma photon interacts inside the lead sheet it would not do much damage there. The only thing that really do damage to the material is neutron radiation and even there the damage is on the microscopic level (atoms getting knocked out of place) than anything macroscopic.



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