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  • IEEE/ANSI N323A-1997

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    American National Standard Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration, Portable Survey Instruments

    Available format(s):  PDF

    Superseded date:  20-06-2014

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  31-12-1997

    Publisher:  Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

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    1 Scope
    2 Definitions
    3 General requirements
      3.1 Operational characteristics
      3.2 Acceptance tests
      3.3 Performance tests
      3.4 Instrument maintenance
      3.5 Special-use conditions
    4 Inspection and calibration
      4.1 Precalibration
      4.2 Calibration
      4.3 Calibration for special conditions
      4.4 Discrimination against interfering radiations
      4.5 Calibration records
      4.6 Instrument information
      4.7 Facility documentation
      4.8 Source response check
      4.9 Calibration frequency
    5 Calibration equipment required
      5.1 Calibration standards
      5.2 Calibration assemblies
      5.3 Maintenance of standards
      5.4 Check sources
    6 Calibration quality
      6.1 Calibration sources
      6.2 Calibration facility
      6.3 Other
    7 Bibliography

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    Specifies requirements for portable radiation protection instruments used for detection and measurement of levels of ionizing radiation fields or levels of radioactive surface contamination.

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    Development Note Redesignated as ANSI N323AB. (06/2014)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
    Status Superseded
    Superseded By

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    IEEE/ANSI N323B-2003 American National Standard for Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration, Portable Survey Instrumentation for Near Background Operation
    IEEE/ANSI N42.17A-2003 American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation-Portable Instrumentation for Use in Normal Environmental Conditions
    IEEE/ANSI N42.35-2006 American National Standard Evaluation and Performance of Radiation Detection Portal Monitors for Use in Homeland Security
    IEEE/ANSI N42.49A-2011 American National Standard for Performance Criteria for Alarming Electronic Personal Emergency Radiation Detectors (PERDs) for Exposure Control
    IEEE/ANSI N42.49B-2013 American National Standard for Performance Criteria for Non-alarming Personal Emergency Radiation Detectors (PERDs) for Exposure Control
    IEEE N323C-2009 American National Standard Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration - Air Monitoring Instruments
    IEEE/ANSI N42.48-2008 American National Standard Performance Requirements for Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detectors (SPRDs) for Homeland Security
    IEEE N323D-2002 American National Standard for Installed Radiation Protection Instrumentation
    IEEE/ANSI N42.33-2006 American National Standard for Portable Radiation Detection Instrumentation for Homeland Security
    IEEE/ANSI N42.34-2006 American National Standard Performance Criteria for Hand-held Instruments for the Detection and Identification of Radionuclides

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    ISO 7503-2:2016 Measurement of radioactivity - Measurement and evaluation of surface contamination Part 2: Test method using wipe-test samples
    ISO 4037:1979 X and gamma reference radiations for calibrating dosemeters and dose ratemeters and for determining their response as a function of photon energy
    ISO 6980:1996 Reference beta radiations for calibrating dosemeters and dose-rate meters and for determining their response as a function of beta-radiation energy
    ANSI N1.1 : 1976 NUCLEAR SAFETY - CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS, SAFETY GUIDE FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF
    IEEE/ANSI N42.17C-1989 American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation. Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions
    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
    ISO 7503-1:2016 Measurement of radioactivity Measurement and evaluation of surface contamination Part 1: General principles
    ANSI N13.6 : 2010 PRACTICE FOR OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION EXPOSURE RECORDS SYSTEMS
    ISO 8769:2016 Reference sources Calibration of surface contamination monitors Alpha-, beta- and photon emitters
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