In this research, we prepared zinc lead silicate glass system with the composition 35Pb3O4-60SiO2- (5-x) ZnO-xWO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 5 mol %) via the melt-quench method. XRD is explored the nature of the glass system. Ultrasonic velocity, and elastic modulus were experimentally investigated and then the results were confirmed by using the theoretical calculations. It was found that because of molar volume reduction inter-ionic distance\({R}_{i}\), polaron radius \({r}_{p}\), and inter-nuclear distance, \({r}_{i}\)of the investigated glasses are reduced with WO3 content. The basic attenuation factors; mass and linear coefficients denoted by µ/ρ and µ, respectively, were determined employing several simulations for each energy via FLUKA code. As WO3 content increased from 0 to 5 mol %, the µ increased from 0.728 cm− 1 to 0.856 cm− 1 achieving high shielding performance for the sample with x = 5 mol %. At 0.6 MeV with x = 5 mol %, we found that the dose rate of the prepared glass system decreases from 2.35 × 107 R/h at 1 mm to 4.71 × 106 R/h at 4 mm. The values of MFP and HVL are lower than those of the conventional photon shields indicating that our prepared glass samples (especially G5 glass sample) have promising shielding properties to use for x/gamma rays applications.