IEC 61322:1994
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Radiation protection instrumentation - Installed dose equivalent rate meters, warning assemblies and monitors for neutron radiation of energy from thermal to 15 MeV
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07-12-1994
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FOREWORD
SECTION 1: GENERAL
Clause
1.1 Scope and object
1.2 Normative references
1.3 Degrees of requirements
1.4 Terminology, quantities, dosimetric terms and units
1.5 Test nomenclature
SECTION 2: DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
2.1 Construction and performance
2.2 Indication facilities
2.3 Alarm facilities
2.4 External facilities
2.5 Effective range of measurement
2.6 Interrelationship between response time and
statistical fluctuations
SECTION 3:TEST PROCEDURES
3.1 Test requirements
3.2 Point of test
3.3 Background radiation
3.4 Statistical fluctuations
3.5 Reference neutron radiation
3.6 Relative intrinsic error in dose equivalent rate
indication for the reference neutron radiation
3.7 Variation of response with neutron radiation energy
3.8 Variation of response with angle of incidence
3.9 Response to other external ionizing radiations
3.10 Overload characteristics
3.11 Statistical fluctuations
3.12 Response time
3.13 Zero drift
3.14 Alarm trip range
3.15 Equipment failure alarms
3.16 Alarm response time and stability
3.17 Warm-up
3.18 Power supply
3.19 Environmental test requirements
3.20 Atmospheric pressure
3.21 External electromagnetic fields
3.22 External magnetic fields
3.23 Sealing
SECTION 4: DOCUMENTATION
4.1 Type test report
4.2 Certificate
4.3 Operation and maintenance manual
Tables
Annexes
A Recommended fluence to ambient dose equivalent
conversion factors
B Provisional fluence to ambient dose equivalent for
the neutron reference radiation sources
C A guide to the number of independent instrument
readings required to establish a true difference in
indication
D Bibliography
Applies to installed dose equivalent rate meters, warning assemblies and monitors, and covers equipment intended to measure neutron radiation in dose equivalent quantities of energy between thermal and 15 MeV for the purposes of radiation protection.
| DevelopmentNote |
Stability Date: 2017. (09/2017)
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
79
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| PublisherName |
International Electrotechnical Committee
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| Status |
Superseded
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| SupersededBy |
| IEC 61559:1996 | Radiation in nuclear facilities - Centralized system for continuousmonitoring of radiation and/or levels of radiactivity |
| BS IEC 61559-1:2009 | Radiation protection instrumentation in nuclear facilities. Centralized systems for continuous monitoring of radiation and/or levels of radioactivity General requirements |
| IEC 61559-1:2009 | Radiation protection instrumentation in nuclear facilities - Centralized systems for continuous monitoring of radiation and/or levels of radioactivity - Part 1: General requirements |
| 07/30126760 DC : 0 | IEC 61559-1 - RADIATION PROTECTION INSTRUMENTATION - INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES - PART 1: CENTRALIZED SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF RADIATION AND/OR LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVITY |
| IEC 60293:1968 | Supply voltages for transistorized nuclear instruments |
| IEC 60050-392:1976 | International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 392: Nuclear Instrumentation |
| ISO 8529:1989 | Neutron reference radiations for calibrating neutron-measuring devices used for radiation protection purposes and for determining their response as a function of neutron energy |
| IEC 60050-391:1975 | International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 391: Detection and measurement of ionizing radiation by electric means |
| 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 60278:1968 | Documentation to be supplied with electronic measuring apparatus |
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