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BS ISO 18589-7 - MEASUREMENT OF RADIOACTIVITY IN THE ENVIRONMENT - SOIL - PART 7: IN SITU MEASUREMENT OF GAMMA-EMITTING RADIONUCLIDES

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

10-31-2013

Language(s)

English

Publisher

British Standards Institution

1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms, definitions, symbols and units
4 Principles
5 Equipment
6 Procedure
7 Quality assurance and quality control program
8 Expression of results
9 Test report
Annex A (informative) - Characteristics of
        germanium detectors
Annex B (informative) - Methods for calculating
        geometrical factors and angular correction
        factors[13]
Annex C (informative) - Conversion factors for
        surface or mass activity to kerma rate in
        air and ambient dose equivalent rate for
        different radionuclide distribution in soil.
        Example showing the calculation of dose
        rate using the measured activities of individual
        nuclides
Annex D (informative) - Field-of-view of an in
        situ gamma spectrometer as a function of the
        photon energy for different radionuclide
        distribution in soil
Annex E (informative) - Influence of radionuclides
        in air on the result of surface or mass
        activity measured by in situ gamma
        spectrometry
Annex F (informative) - Mass attenuation factors
        for soil and attenuation factors for air as
        a function of photon energy and deviation
        of G(E,V) for different soils composition
Annex G (informative) - Influence quantities
Annex H (informative) - Example for calculation
        the characteristic limits as well as the best
        estimate of the measurand and its standard
        uncertainty

BS ISO 18589-7

Committee	NCE/2
DocumentType	Draft
Pages	64
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Superseded
SupersededBy	BS EN ISO 18589-7:2016 BS ISO 18589-7 : 2013

IEC 60973:1989	Test procedures for germanium gamma-ray detectors
ISO 18589-3:2015	Measurement of radioactivity in the environment — Soil — Part 3: Test method of gamma-emitting radionuclides using gamma-ray spectrometry
ISO 18589-5:2009	Measurement of radioactivity in the environment Soil Part 5: Measurement of strontium 90
ISO 18589-1:2005	Measurement of radioactivity in the environment Soil Part 1: General guidelines and definitions
ISO 11929:2010	Determination of the characteristic limits (decision threshold, detection limit and limits of the confidence interval) for measurements of ionizing radiation Fundamentals and application
ISO 18589-6:2009	Measurement of radioactivity in the environment Soil Part 6: Measurement of gross alpha and gross beta activities
ISO 18589-2:2015	Measurement of radioactivity in the environment — Soil — Part 2: Guidance for the selection of the sampling strategy, sampling and pre-treatment of samples
IEC 61275:2013	Radiation protection instrumentation - Measurement of discrete radionuclides in the environment - In situ photon spectrometry system using a germanium detector
ISO 18589-4:2009	Measurement of radioactivity in the environment Soil Part 4: Measurement of plutonium isotopes (plutonium 238 and plutonium 239 + 240) by alpha spectrometry
ISO/IEC Guide 98-3:2008	Uncertainty of measurement — Part 3: Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM:1995)