Radioactive Aerosol Standards - Aerosols: Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects - page 537

The international comparison was provided between JSC “SNIIP” (Russia) and IPSN-CEA
(France). As a result of cooperation between these two installations, the number of aerosol sam-
ples with certain radionuclides ingredients was prepared. In Russia aerosol samples were prepared
according to technology of SAS manufacturing, in France source of Pu-239 and Cs-137.
The review of air monitoring standards not as installations for testing and veriication of air
monitors, but as requirements, instructions for measurement and calibration, is presented in
An International Review of Currently Applicable Standards for Measuring Airborne Activity
(International Electrotechnical Commission [IEC], TC News, 2003. Report can be found electroni-
cally at: http://www.iec.ch/support/tcnews.
Here is a list of some of standards related to radioactive aerosol measurements.
IEC standards
1. IEC61172 (1992-09): Radiation protection instrumentation—Monitoring equipment—
Radioactive aerosols environment.
2. IEC 60761-1 (2002-01): Equipment for continuous monitoring of radioactivity in gaseous
efluents—Part 1: General requirements.
3. IEC 60761-2 (2002-01): Equipment for continuous monitoring of radioactivity in gaseous
efluents—Part 2: Speciic requirements for radioactive aerosol monitors including trans-
uranic aerosols.
4. IEC 61172 (1992-09): Radiation protection instrumentation—Monitoring equipment—
Radioactive aerosols in the environment.
5. IEC 61577-1 (2006-07): Radiation protection instrumentation—Radon and radon decay
product measuring instruments—Part 1: General principles.
6. IEC 61577-2 (2000-10): Radon and radon decay product measuring instruments—Part 2:
Speciic requirements for radon measuring instruments.
7. IEC 61577-3 (2002-04): Radon and radon decay product measuring instruments—Part 3:
Speciic requirements for radon decay measuring instruments.
8. IEC 61577-4 (2009-02): Radon and radon decay product measuring instruments—Part 4:
Equipment for the production of reference atmospheres containing radon isotopes and their
decay products (STAR).
9. IEC 61263 (1994-06): Radiation protection instrumentation—Portable potential alpha
energy meter for rapid measurements in mines.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standards
ISO 2889 (19750): General principles for sampling airborne radioactive materials.
European Standards
EN 481 (1993): Workplace atmospheres—Size fraction deinitions for measurement of airborne
particles.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
ANSI N323C (in preparation): Radiation Protection Instrumentation Test and Calibration Air
Monitoring Instruments.
Applicable French National standards
NF X 43022 (1985): Air quality—Ambient air—Concepts relating to the sampling of particular
matter.
NF X 43257 (1998): Air quality—Air in workplaces individual sampling of inspirable fraction
of particulate pollution.