Customer Support: 131 242

  • There are no items in your cart
We noticed you’re not on the correct regional site. Switch to our AMERICAS site for the best experience.
Dismiss alert

IEEE/ANSI N323A-1997

Superseded

Superseded

A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

View Superseded by
superseded

A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

American National Standard Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration, Portable Survey Instruments

Available format(s)

PDF

Superseded date

20-06-2014

Language(s)

English

Published date

31-12-1997

1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 General requirements
  3.1 Operational characteristics
  3.2 Acceptance tests
  3.3 Performance tests
  3.4 Instrument maintenance
  3.5 Special-use conditions
4 Inspection and calibration
  4.1 Precalibration
  4.2 Calibration
  4.3 Calibration for special conditions
  4.4 Discrimination against interfering radiations
  4.5 Calibration records
  4.6 Instrument information
  4.7 Facility documentation
  4.8 Source response check
  4.9 Calibration frequency
5 Calibration equipment required
  5.1 Calibration standards
  5.2 Calibration assemblies
  5.3 Maintenance of standards
  5.4 Check sources
6 Calibration quality
  6.1 Calibration sources
  6.2 Calibration facility
  6.3 Other
7 Bibliography

Specifies requirements for portable radiation protection instruments used for detection and measurement of levels of ionizing radiation fields or levels of radioactive surface contamination.

DevelopmentNote
Redesignated as ANSI N323AB. (06/2014)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
24
PublisherName
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

IEEE/ANSI N323B-2003 American National Standard for Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration, Portable Survey Instrumentation for Near Background Operation
IEEE/ANSI N42.17A-2003 American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation-Portable Instrumentation for Use in Normal Environmental Conditions
IEEE/ANSI N42.35-2006 American National Standard Evaluation and Performance of Radiation Detection Portal Monitors for Use in Homeland Security
IEEE/ANSI N42.49A-2011 American National Standard for Performance Criteria for Alarming Electronic Personal Emergency Radiation Detectors (PERDs) for Exposure Control
IEEE/ANSI N42.49B-2013 American National Standard for Performance Criteria for Non-alarming Personal Emergency Radiation Detectors (PERDs) for Exposure Control
IEEE N323C-2009 American National Standard Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration - Air Monitoring Instruments
IEEE/ANSI N42.48-2008 American National Standard Performance Requirements for Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detectors (SPRDs) for Homeland Security
IEEE N323D-2002 American National Standard for Installed Radiation Protection Instrumentation
IEEE/ANSI N42.33-2006 American National Standard for Portable Radiation Detection Instrumentation for Homeland Security
IEEE/ANSI N42.34-2006 American National Standard Performance Criteria for Hand-held Instruments for the Detection and Identification of Radionuclides

ISO 7503-2:2016 Measurement of radioactivity - Measurement and evaluation of surface contamination Part 2: Test method using wipe-test samples
ISO 4037:1979 X and gamma reference radiations for calibrating dosemeters and dose ratemeters and for determining their response as a function of photon energy
ISO 6980:1996 Reference beta radiations for calibrating dosemeters and dose-rate meters and for determining their response as a function of beta-radiation energy
ANSI N1.1 : 1976 NUCLEAR SAFETY - CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS, SAFETY GUIDE FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF
IEEE/ANSI N42.17C-1989 American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation. Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions
ISO 8529:1989 Neutron reference radiations for calibrating neutron-measuring devices used for radiation protection purposes and for determining their response as a function of neutron energy
ISO 7503-1:2016 Measurement of radioactivity Measurement and evaluation of surface contamination Part 1: General principles
ANSI N13.6 : 2010 PRACTICE FOR OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION EXPOSURE RECORDS SYSTEMS
ISO 8769:2016 Reference sources Calibration of surface contamination monitors Alpha-, beta- and photon emitters

View more information
$295.43
Including GST where applicable

Access your standards online with a subscription

Features

  • Simple online access to standards, technical information and regulations.

  • Critical updates of standards and customisable alerts and notifications.

  • Multi-user online standards collection: secure, flexible and cost effective.

Need help?
Call us on 131 242, then click here to start a Screen Sharing session
so we can help right away! Learn more