American National Standard Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration - Air Monitoring Instruments

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06-11-2009

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Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

1. Overview
    1.1 Scope
    1.2 Purpose
    1.3 Special word usage
2. Relationship to other standards
3. Definitions
4. Program elements
    4.1 Type testing
    4.2 Acceptance testing
    4.3 Initial calibration
    4.4 Functional checks
    4.5 Maintenance and recalibration
    4.6 Performance tests
5. Air flow rate calibrations
6. Instrument calibrations
    6.1 Pre-calibration inspection
    6.2 As-found readings
    6.3 Electronic calibration
    6.4 Meters and chart recorders
    6.5 Background response verification
    6.6 Calibration of background subtraction
    6.7 Alarm circuit verification
    6.8 Radiological calibration
7. Additional calibration requirements for particulate
    and noble gas monitors
    7.1 Alpha and beta particulate monitors
    7.2 Keep-alive sources
    7.3 Noble gas monitors
8. Calibration for special conditions
9. Facilities, conditions, and equipment
    9.1 Calibration facility
    9.2 Test and calibration conditions
    9.3 Calibration standards
    9.4 Maintenance of standards
    9.5 Check sources
10. Documentation
    10.1 Facility documentation
    10.2 Instrument documentation
Annex A (informative) - Summary of a life-cycle approach to
                        instrument development and application
Annex B (informative) - Flow rate meter calibrations
Annex C (informative) - Bibliography

Describes test and calibration requirements for air monitoring instruments used for detection and measurement of airborne radioactive substances.

DocumentType	Standard
Pages	38
PublisherName	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
Status	Current
Supersedes	ANSI N42.28 : 2008

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IEC 60761-5:2002	Equipment for continuous monitoring of radioactivity in gaseous effluents - Part 5: Specific requirements for tritium monitors
IEC 60050-394:2007	International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 394: Nuclear instrumentation - Instruments, systems, equipment and detectors
IEEE/ANSI N323A-1997	American National Standard Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration, Portable Survey Instruments
ANSI N13.2 : 1969	ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES IN RADIATION MONITORING (A GUIDE FOR MANAGEMENT),
IEEE/ANSI N320-1979	American National Standard Performance Specifications for Reactor Emergency Radiological Monitoring Instrumentation
IEC 62303:2008	Radiation protection instrumentation - Equipment for monitoring airborne tritium
ISO 25:1994	Cinematography — Camera usage of 16 mm motion-picture film — Specifications
IEC 60761-2:2002	Equipment for continuous monitoring of radioactivity in gaseous effluents - Part 2: Specific requirements for radioactive aerosol monitors including transuranic aerosols
IEC 60761-3:2002	Equipment for continuous monitoring of radioactivity in gaseous effluents - Part 3: Specific requirements for radioactive noble gas monitors
IEC 60761-4:2002	Equipment for continuous monitoring of radioactivity in gaseous effluents - Part 4: Specific requirements for radioactive iodine monitors
IEEE N42.30-2002	American National Standard for Performance Specification for Tritium Monitors
ISO/IEC Guide 99:2007	International vocabulary of metrology Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM)
NCSL RP 1 : 2010	CALIBRATION INTERVALS
IEC 62302:2007	Radiation protection instrumentation - Equipment for sampling and monitoring radioactive noble gases
ANSI N1.1 : 1976	NUCLEAR SAFETY - CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS, SAFETY GUIDE FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF
ISO 4037-1:1996	X and gamma reference radiation for calibrating dosemeters and doserate meters and for determining their response as a function of photon energy Part 1: Radiation characteristics and production methods
IEC 60761-1:2002	Equipment for continuous monitoring of radioactivity in gaseous effluents - Part 1: General requirements
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
IEEE N42.18-2004	American National Standard Specification and Performance of On-Site Instrumentation for Continuously Monitoring Radioactivity in Effluents
ANSI N13.1 : 2011	SAMPLING AND MONITORING RELEASES OF AIRBORNE RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES FROM THE STACKS AND DUCTS OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES
IEEE/ANSI N42.33-2006	American National Standard for Portable Radiation Detection Instrumentation for Homeland Security
IEEE N42.17B-1989	American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation. Occupational Airborne Radioactivity Monitoring Instrumentation

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