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    BS ISO 20042 - MEASUREMENT OF RADIOACTIVITY - GAMMA EMITTING RADIONUCLIDES - GENERIC TEST METHOD USING GAMMA SPECTROMETRY

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    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Foreword
    Introduction
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms, definitions, symbols and units
    4 Symbols
    5 Principle
    6 Validating measurements by gamma spectrometry
    7 Nuclear decay data
    8 Detector energy and efficiency calibration
    9 Sample container
    10 Procedure
    11 Expression of results
    12 Test report
    Annex A (normative) - Quality assurance and quality
            control program
    Annex B (normative) - Corrections to the analysis process
    Annex C (normative) - Uncertainty budget
    Annex D (informative) - Detector types
    Annex E (informative) - Example - Calculation of [137]Cs
            activity content and characteristic limits in an aqueous
            sample
    Annex F (informative) - Example - Simulating correction
            factors for sample positioning, geometry, matrix, density
            and true summing
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    Committee NCE/2
    Document Type Draft
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status NA

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

    ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
    ISO 19361:2017 Measurement of radioactivity — Determination of beta emitters activities — Test method using liquid scintillation counting
    ISO 19581:2017 Measurement of radioactivity — Gamma emitting radionuclides — Rapid screening method using scintillation detector gamma-ray spectrometry
    ISO 10381-1:2002 Soil quality Sampling Part 1: Guidance on the design of sampling programmes
    ISO 10381-3:2001 Soil quality Sampling Part 3: Guidance on safety
    ISO 707:2008 Milk and milk products — Guidance on sampling
    ISO 10703:2007 Water quality Determination of the activity concentration of radionuclides Method by high resolution gamma-ray spectrometry
    ISO 5667-10:1992 Water quality Sampling Part 10: Guidance on sampling of waste waters
    ISO 18589-7:2013 Measurement of radioactivity in the environment — Soil — Part 7: In situ measurement of gamma-emitting radionuclides
    ISO 18589-3:2015 Measurement of radioactivity in the environment — Soil — Part 3: Test method of gamma-emitting radionuclides using gamma-ray spectrometry
    ISO 10381-2:2002 Soil quality Sampling Part 2: Guidance on sampling techniques
    ISO 13165-3:2016 Water quality Radium-226 Part 3: Test method using coprecipitation and gamma-spectrometry
    ISO 10381-5:2005 Soil quality Sampling Part 5: Guidance on the procedure for the investigation of urban and industrial sites with regard to soil contamination
    ISO 10381-7:2005 Soil quality Sampling Part 7: Guidance on sampling of soil gas
    ISO 17604:2015 Microbiology of the food chain Carcass sampling for microbiological analysis
    ISO 5667-1:2006 Water quality Sampling Part 1: Guidance on the design of sampling programmes and sampling techniques
    ISO 13164-2:2013 Water quality — Radon-222 — Part 2: Test method using gamma-ray spectrometry
    ISO/IEC 12207:2008 Systems and software engineering Software life cycle processes
    IEEE/ANSI N42.14-1999 American National Standard for Calibration and Use of Germanium Spectrometers for the Measurement of Gamma-Ray Emission Rates of Radionuclides
    ISO 24333:2009 Cereals and cereal products — Sampling
    ISO 5500:1986 Oilseed residues Sampling
    IEC 61453:2007 Nuclear instrumentation - Scintillation gamma ray detector systems for the assay of radionuclides - Calibration and routine tests
    ISO 542:1990 Oilseeds — Sampling
    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 18589-2:2015 Measurement of radioactivity in the environment — Soil — Part 2: Guidance for the selection of the sampling strategy, sampling and pre-treatment of samples
    ISO 10381-4:2003 Soil quality Sampling Part 4: Guidance on the procedure for investigation of natural, near-natural and cultivated sites
    ISO 5538:2004 Milk and milk products — Sampling — Inspection by attributes
    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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