1. A VIEW OF ACTIVE ANSI N42, N13, ASTM AND IEC STANDARDS MARCH 2005
STATUS OF STANDARDS
A VIEW OF ACTIVE
ANSI N42, N13, ASTM AND IEC STANDARDS
MARCH 2005

2. 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 N On-site effluent monitoring; being revised; Bill Bartlett, Chair;
-ANSI N 320- Reactor emergency instrumentation; being revised; Henry Fong, Chair.

3. ANSI N42HSI (HOMELAND SECURITY INSTRUMENTATION)
-ANSI N Personnel detectors; 2003; Joe McDonald, Chair; to be revised soon;
-ANSI N Portable instruments; 2003; Morgan Cox, Chair; to be revised soon;
-ANSI N Portable radionuclide identifiers; 2003; Pete Chairo, Chair; to be revised soon;
-ANSI N Portal monitors, 2004; Brain Rees, Chair; to be revised soon;
-ANSI N Training DHS personnel to use radiation detectors (above); Morgan Cox, Chair; nearly complete.

4. ANSI N42HSI STANDARDS BEING DEVELOPED
-ANSI N Portal monitors with  spectroscopic capability; Pete Chiaro, Chair;
-ANSI N Neutron detectors: personnel, portable and portal; Joe McDonald and Allen Thompson, Co-chairs;
-ANSI N X-ray screening; chair to br named;
-ANSI N Active interrogation using neutrons, high energy electrons and x-rays; Dave Gilliam, Chair;
-ANSI N Radiological data formatting; Leticia Pibida, Chair.

5. OTHER IMPORTANT STANDARDS
-ANSI N 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 N 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 Noble gas monitoring in the workplace, in effluent and in the environment; draft 3; Morgan Cox, project leader;
-IEC Tritium monitoring in the workplace, in effluent and in the environment; draft 3; Gerhard Langmueller, Framatome-Siemens, project leader.

6. OTHER IMPORTANT STANDARDS
IEC IN FIVE PARTS:
IEC PART 1- GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR AEROSOL MONITORING;
IEC PART 2 – SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING TRANSURANIC MONITORING;
IEC PART 3 – REQUIREMENTS FOR MONIROTING NOBLE GASES;
IEC PART 4 – REQUIREMENTS FOR IODINE MONITORING;
IEC PART 5 – REQUIREMENTS FOR TRITIUM MONITORING.
ALL REFER TO EFFLUENT MONITORING ONLY.