What is BS IEC 61017-Transportable, mobile, or installed equipment to measure photon radiation about?
BS IEC 61017 is an international standard that discusses the transportable, mobile, or installed equipment to measure photon radiation to ensure radiation protection.
BS IEC 61017 applies to transportable, mobile, or installed assemblies intended to measure environmental air kerma rates or air absorbed dose rates from 30 nGy⋅h–1 to 30 μGy⋅h–1 or ambient dose equivalent rates from 30 nSv⋅h–1 to 30 μSv⋅h–1, or air kerma or air absorbed dose from 10 nGy to 10 mGy, or ambient dose equivalent from 10 nSv to 10 mSv, due to photon radiation of energy between 50 keV and 7 MeV.
The equipment covered under BS IEC 61017 comprises a detector assembly and processing circuits, which may be connected either rigidly or through a flexible cable or incorporated into a single assembly. The equipment assembly may also include circuits for displaying readings, alarms, and communication.
Note 1: 80 keV to 3 MeV has been chosen to cover the energies of the chief environmental and man-made radionuclides that contribute to the environmental dose. The term “dose” used in BS IEC 61017 means the quantity, air kerma, air absorbed dose, and ambient dose equivalent, that the instrument is intended to measure.
Note 2: Passive devices such as Thermo-Luminescence Dosemeter (TLD), Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dosemeter or Glass Radio-Photo Luminescence (RPL) Dosemeter are not covered by BS IEC 61017.
Note 3: BS IEC 61017 does not provide for the measurement of beta and neutron radiation.
Who is BS IEC 61017-Transportable, mobile, or installed equipment to measure photon radiation for?
BS IEC 61017 on transportable, mobile, or installed equipment to measure photon radiation is useful for:
- Transportable and mobile equipment manufacturers
- Transportable and mobile equipment test personnel
- Occupational health and safety departments
- Risk assessment authorities
- Quality assurance departments
Why should you use BS IEC 61017-Transportable, mobile, or installed equipment to measure photon radiation?
The evaluation of the environmental radiation dose from photons is difficult. The composition of the background radiation is complex and includes contributions from natural sources such as cosmic radiation and terrestrial radioactivity in addition to man-made radioactivity arising from the operation of nuclear facilities and fall-out from nuclear weapon tests. The evaluation of the environmental radiation dose from photons is difficult.
BS IEC 61017 provides you with general test procedures, general requirements, general characteristics, equipment configuration, radiation detection, method of test, electrical, mechanical, and environmental characteristics and much more. The requirements, test methods and procedures provided by BS IEC 61017 assist in improving the performance and quality of the transportable, mobile, or installed equipment and ensure protection against the risk of photon radiation.
With obedience and compliance to BS IEC 61017, you can enhance the efficacy of the transportable, mobile, or installed equipment and manufacture a standardized product.
What is changed since the last update?
BS IEC 61017:2016 supersedes IEC 61017-1:1991 and IEC 61017-2:1994, which is withdrawn. BS IEC 61017:2016 has made some technical changes compared to the previous editions IEC 61017-1:1991 and IEC 61017-2:1994. These include:
- Explicitly describes air absorbed dose and dose rate, ambient dose equivalent dose and dose rate, in addition to air kerma and kerma rate
- Includes the description of the typical detector types for use in environmental monitoring
