Transcript STATUS OF STANDARDS

STATUS OF STANDARDS
A VIEW OF ACTIVE
ANSI N42, N13, ASTM AND IEC STANDARDS
MARCH 2005
ANSI N42 RPI
(RADIATION PROTECTION INSTRUMENTATION)
• -ANSI N317- Instrumentation used at Pu facilities; being
revised; Cheryl Olson, Chair;
• -ANSI N42.17A- Portable instruments; revised 2003; Pete
Chairo, Chair;
• -ANSI N42.17B- Air monitoring instruments; To be
revised as soon as possible;
• -ANSI N42.17C- Portable instruments under extreme
conditions; To be revised; Morgan Cox, Chair;
• ANSI N42.18- On-site effluent monitoring; being revised;
Bill Bartlett, Chair;
• -ANSI N 320- Reactor emergency instrumentation; being
revised; Henry Fong, Chair.
ANSI N42HSI
(HOMELAND SECURITY INSTRUMENTATION)
• -ANSI N42.32- Personnel detectors; 2003; Joe McDonald,
Chair; to be revised soon;
• -ANSI N42.33- Portable instruments; 2003; Morgan Cox,
Chair; to be revised soon;
• -ANSI N42.34- Portable radionuclide identifiers; 2003;
Pete Chairo, Chair; to be revised soon;
• -ANSI N42.35- Portal monitors, 2004; Brain Rees, Chair;
to be revised soon;
• -ANSI N42.37- Training DHS personnel to use radiation
detectors (above); Morgan Cox, Chair; nearly complete.
ANSI N42HSI STANDARDS
BEING DEVELOPED
• -ANSI N42.38- Portal monitors with  spectroscopic
capability; Pete Chiaro, Chair;
• -ANSI N42.39- Neutron detectors: personnel, portable and
portal; Joe McDonald and Allen Thompson, Co-chairs;
• -ANSI N42.40- X-ray screening; chair to br named;
• -ANSI N42.41- Active interrogation using neutrons, high
energy electrons and x-rays; Dave Gilliam, Chair;
• -ANSI N42-42- Radiological data formatting; Leticia
Pibida, Chair.
OTHER IMPORTANT STANDARDS
• -ANSI N42.36- RadNet: Being developed; Co-Chairs Scott
Rogers and Keith Olson;
• -ANSI N13.XY- Training responders using radiation
detectors in N42.32, .33, .34 and .35; Jim Barnes, Chair;
• -ANSI N13.56- Air sampling and monitoring (equivalent
of ANSI N13.1B; being developed; Jeff Whicker, Chair;
• -ASTM GUIDELINES- Some 11 scenario specific
guidelines being developed; Bob Stenner, Chair;
• -IEC 62302- Noble gas monitoring in the workplace, in
effluent and in the environment; draft 3; Morgan Cox,
project leader;
• -IEC 62303- Tritium monitoring in the workplace, in
effluent and in the environment; draft 3; Gerhard
OTHER IMPORTANT STANDARDS
• IEC 60761 IN FIVE PARTS:
– IEC 60761 PART 1- GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
AEROSOL MONITORING;
– IEC 60761 PART 2 – SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING
TRANSURANIC MONITORING;
– IEC 60761 PART 3 – REQUIREMENTS FOR MONIROTING
NOBLE GASES;
– IEC 60761 PART 4 – REQUIREMENTS FOR IODINE
MONITORING;
– IEC 60761 PART 5 – REQUIREMENTS FOR TRITIUM
MONITORING.
– ALL REFER TO EFFLUENT MONITORING ONLY.