This standard establishes minimum acceptable performance criteria for health physics instrumentation for use in ionizing radiation fields under extreme environmental conditions. Included are testing methods to establish the acceptability of each type of instrumentation. This standard does not specify which instruments or systems are required, nor does it consider the number of specific applications of such instruments. This standard supplements the basic performance requirements for health physics instrumentation as specified in ANSI N42.17A [2]. Specifications in this standard are expected to be called for by the user as required and should not be considered as general specifications.
This standard establishes the minimum performance criteria for portable radiation protection instrumentation for use in ionizing radiation fields under both normal and extreme environmental conditions, i.e., all environmental conditions. For the portable radiation detection instrumentation addressed in this standard, the radiological ranges for the performance tests are as follows: the dose rate range of operation taken as background to 10 Gy/h (1000 rad/h); the activity-per-unit-area range for… read more surface contamination monitors taken as 0.01 Bq/cm (60 dpm/100 cm) or 0.05 Bq/cm (300 dpm/100 cm) to 200 Bq/cm (1.2 × 10 dpm/100 cm). The testing methods verify that the performance criteria are met over the range of operating conditions for each type of instrumentation. This standard does not specify which instruments or systems are required, nor does it consider the number of specific applications of such instruments. read less