American national standard for the specification of portable x- or gamma-radiation survey instruments

Book · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1971

OSTI ID:5857914

This standard does not provide a series of performance requirements but rather the means of stating or describing performance. The recommendations contained herein apply to specifications for portable X- or gamma-radiation survey instruments. Each of these instruments includes a detector and visual, analog and/or digital type readout. In recognition of the practical difficulties inherent in exposure measurements in the energy region above a few MeV, two broad energy ranges have been delineated: (1) less than or equal to 1.5 MeV, and (2) >1.5 MeV. The photon energy from /sup 60/Co, which is widely used for test and calibration, is conveniently near the upper limit of the low range.

• OSTI ID: 5857914
• Report Number(s): ANSI-N13.4-1971
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
GAMMA DETECTION
STANDARDS
RADIATION MONITORS
X-RAY DETECTION
COBALT 60
ENERGY RANGE
SPECIFICATIONS
TESTING
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
COBALT ISOTOPES
DETECTION
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
MONITORS
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIOISOTOPES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
440101* - Radiation Instrumentation- General Detectors or Monitors & Radiometric Instruments