ASTM D7282 - 2014 Standard Practice for Set-up, Calibration, and Quality Control of Instruments Used for Radioactivity Measurements

American Society for Testing and Materials - 2014.- 25 p.
This practice covers consensus criteria for the calibration and quality control of nuclear instruments. This practice is provided for establishing appropriate quality control parameters at instrument startup, calibration of nuclear counting instruments and the continuing monitoring of quality control parameters. Calibrations are usually performed to establish the operating parameters of the instrument. This practice addresses the typically used nuclear counting instruments: alpha spectrometer, gamma spectrometer, gas proportional counter and liquid scintillation counter.
Referenced Documents
ASTM Standards:
D1129 Terminology Relating to Water
D3648 Practices for the Measurement of Radioactivity
D4375 Practice for Basic Statistics in Committee D19 on Water
Other Standards:
U.S. ANSI N42.22 Traceability of Radioactive Sources to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Associated Instrument Quality Control
U.S. ANSI N42.23 Measurement and Associated Instrumentation Quality Assurance for Radioassay Laboratories
U.S. ANSI/HPS N13.30 Performance Criteria for Radiobioassay
ISO/IEC 17025 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories
JCGM 100:2008 Evaluation of Measurement Data – Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement