RADIATION PROTECTION INSTRUMENTATION - INSTALLED DOSE EQUIVALENT RATE METERS, WARNING ASSEMBLIES AND MONITORS FOR NEUTRON RADIATION OF ENERGY FROM THERMAL TO 15 MEV
International Electrotechnical Committee
FOREWORD<br>SECTION 1: GENERAL<br>Clause<br>1.1 Scope and object<br>1.2 Normative references<br>1.3 Degrees of requirements<br>1.4 Terminology, quantities, dosimetric terms and units<br>1.5 Test nomenclature<br>SECTION 2: DESIGN REQUIREMENTS<br>2.1 Construction and performance<br>2.2 Indication facilities<br>2.3 Alarm facilities<br>2.4 External facilities<br>2.5 Effective range of measurement<br>2.6 Interrelationship between response time and <br> statistical fluctuations<br>SECTION 3:TEST PROCEDURES<br>3.1 Test requirements<br>3.2 Point of test<br>3.3 Background radiation<br>3.4 Statistical fluctuations<br>3.5 Reference neutron radiation<br>3.6 Relative intrinsic error in dose equivalent rate <br> indication for the reference neutron radiation<br>3.7 Variation of response with neutron radiation energy<br>3.8 Variation of response with angle of incidence<br>3.9 Response to other external ionizing radiations<br>3.10 Overload characteristics<br>3.11 Statistical fluctuations<br>3.12 Response time<br>3.13 Zero drift<br>3.14 Alarm trip range<br>3.15 Equipment failure alarms<br>3.16 Alarm response time and stability<br>3.17 Warm-up<br>3.18 Power supply<br>3.19 Environmental test requirements<br>3.20 Atmospheric pressure<br>3.21 External electromagnetic fields<br>3.22 External magnetic fields<br>3.23 Sealing<br>SECTION 4: DOCUMENTATION<br>4.1 Type test report<br>4.2 Certificate<br>4.3 Operation and maintenance manual<br>Tables<br>Annexes<br>A Recommended fluence to ambient dose equivalent <br> conversion factors<br>B Provisional fluence to ambient dose equivalent for <br> the neutron reference radiation sources<br>C A guide to the number of independent instrument <br> readings required to establish a true difference in <br> indication<br>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.
| Document Type | Standard |
| Status | Current |
| Publisher | International Electrotechnical Committee |
| Committee | TC 45 |
