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

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    Superseded date:  31-10-2013

    Language(s):  English

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    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    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

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    Committee NCE/2
    Document Type Draft
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Superseded
    Superseded By

    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    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)
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