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BS 5566:1978

Superseded

Superseded

A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

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Recommendations for installed exposure rate meters, warning assemblies and monitors for X or gamma radiation of energy between 80 keV and 3 MeV

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

08-15-2001

Language(s)

English

Published date

08-31-1978

National foreword
Cooperating organizations
1. Scope
2. Object
Section One - Terminology
3. Degrees of requirements
4. Definitions applicable to this standard
5. Test nomenclature
Section Two - General requirements
6. General
7. Alarms
8. Alarm threshold
9. Classification
Section Three - General test procedures
10. Basic tests
11. Point of test
12. Background radiation
13. Statistical fluctuations
14. Reference gamma radiation
Section Four - Radiation characteristics
15. Accuracy of response to reference gamma radiation
16. Variation of response with radiation energy
17. Variation of response with angle of incidence
18. Beta radiation
19. Neutron radiation
Section Five - Electrical characteristics
20. Statistical fluctuations
21. Response time
22. Interrelationship between response time and
     statistical fluctuations
23. Zero drift
24. Alarm threshold drift
25. Warm-up
26. Mains voltage
Section Six - Safety characteristics
27. Overload characteristics
28. Ease of decontamination
Section Seven - Environmental characteristics
29. Ambient air temperature
30. Relative humidity
31. Atmospheric pressure
32. Sealing
Section Eight - Documentation to be supplied
33. Identification certificate

Describes standard general characteristics and general test procedures; radiation, electrical, safety and environmental characteristics of assemblies commonly defined as area radiation monitors. Does not apply to assemblies used for reactor control or to criticality monitors or to assemblies intended to give information about operational parameters of nuclear plants or control purposes.

Committee
NCE/2
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
18
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

IEC 60293:1968 Supply voltages for transistorized nuclear instruments

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