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N13 Standards Development and Working Groups

Standard N13 Section* Title/Status Working Group Chair
Published Standards
N2.1-1989   Radiation Symbol
Status: ANSI published the revised standard. Reaffirmation ballot closed with 1 negative and 2 coments that are being reviewed.
Vacant
N12.1-1989   Fissile Material Symbol
Status: ANSI published the revised standard. Reaffirmation ballot closed with no negatives or comments.
Vacant
N13.1-1999 ENV Guide to Sampling Airborne Radioactive Materials in Stacks and Ducts
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published. Committee being reformed to develop revised standard.
John Glissmeyer
N13.2-1988 INT Guide for Administrative Practices in Radiation Monitoring
Status: Working Group completed a new revision in July 1999. To be balloted by N13 soon.
Joe DiCicco
N13.3-1988 EXT Dosimetry for Criticality Accidents
Status: Revised PINS balloted by N13 during February 2002.
Bob Loesch
N13.5-1989   Performance Specifications for Direct Reading and Indirect Reading Pocket Dosimeters For X- and Gamma-Radiation
Status: Discussions underway with N42 to resolve potential overlap in standard content.
Vacant
N13.6-1999 EXT Practice for Occupational Radiation Exposure Records Systems
Status: ANSI/HPS standard has been published.
Matt Lyon
N13.7-1989 EXT Criteria for Film Dosimeter Performance
Status: Consideration underway to withdraw standard.
Vacant
N13.8-1989  

Radiation Protection in Uranium Mines Operation
Status: N13.8 WG has started revising the standard..

Robert Meyer
N13.11-2000 EXT Criteria for Testing Personnel Dosimetry Performance
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published; N13.11 WG has started revising the standard   
Chris Soares
N13.12-1999 ENV Surface and Volumetric Radioactivity Guides for Materials,Equipment, and Facilities for Unrestricted Release
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Bill Kennedy
N13.14-1994 INT Internal Dosimetry Techniques for Tritium
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published. N13.14 WG has started revising the standard
C. Gus Potter
N13.22-1995 INT Internal Dosimetry Program for Uranium
Status: N13.22 WG has started revising the standard
Jim Bogard
N13.27-1992 INS Performance Specifications for Pocket-Sized Alarming Dosimeters/Ratemeters
Status: Revised standard written and to be submitted for N13 balloting.
Jim Bogard
N13.30-1996 INT Performance Criteria for Radiobioassay
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published. New WG chair and WG preparing revised standard.
Jay MacLellan
N13.32-1995 EXT Performance Testing of Extremity Dosimeters
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published. New WG chair and WG preparing revised standard.
Rick Cummings
N13.35-1999 INT Specifications for the Bottle Maniken Absorption (Bomab) Phantom
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Tim Lynch
N13.36-2001 ENV Ionizing Radiation Safety Training for Workers
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Paula Trinoskey
N13.37 ENV Performance Testing and Procedural Specifications for Thermoluminescent Dosimeters (new number was N545-1993) Status: Preparation of revised standard underway. Gladys Klemic
N13.39-2001 INT Internal Dosimetry Programs
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Don Bihl
N13.41-1997 EXT Criteria For Performing Multiple Dosimetry
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Carol Berger
N13.42-1997 INT Internal Dosimetry Techniques for Fission and Activation Products
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Michael Williams
N13.45-1998 MED Incineration of Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Dick Vetter
N13.49-2001 ENV Performance and Documentation of Radiological Surveys
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Eric Abelquist
N13.52-1999 EXT Performance Specifications for Personnel Neutron Dosimeters
Status: ANSI/HPS standard published.
Eric Kearsley
 
Drafts in Progress
P/N13.9 ENV Environmental Surveillance Around Nuclear Facilities Ed Bradley
P/N13.25 INT Internal Dosimetry Techniques for Plutonium
Status: Draft standard has been balloted. WG chair is resolving comments.
Guthrie Miller
P/N13.29 ENV Criteria for Testing Environmental Dosimeter Performance
Status: Draft standard has been prepared.
Marko Moscovitch
P/N13.31 ENV Assessment of Radiation Doses from Plutonium and Americium from Soil
Status: Draft standard has been prepared.
Tom Buhl
P/N13.33 ENV Guide to Preparation of Environmental Radiation Surveillance and Monitoring Reports
Status: Draft standard has been prepared.
Kjell Johansen
P/N13.34 INS Performance Specification for the Measurement of Radon in Indoor Air Philip Jenkins
P/N13.38 EXT How to Select and use Neutron Radiation Instrumentation for Individual Dose Determinations Lee McAtee
P/N13.40 INT Standard for Thorax Phantoms used in Performing Radiological Measurements of Internally Deposited Radionuclides
Status: New working group chair assigned.
Henry Spitz
P/N13.43 INT Anthropomorphic Structures used in Performing Radiological Measurements of Internally Deposited Radionuclides Dave Hickman
P/N13.44 INT Thyroid Phantom Used in Occupational Monitoring Bob Keyes
P/N13.46 ENV Guide for Radon/Radon Decay Product Testing in Real Estatetransactions for Residential Dwellings
Status: Standard was proposed by AARST with a working draft from AARST.
Dave Hintenlang
P/N13.47 ENV Environmental Pathway Modeling
Status: PINS Form submitted to ANSI 4/96.
Vacant
P/N13.48 EXT Radiation Protection Terminology
Status: PINS Form submitted to ANSI 4/96. Draft has been prepared.
Norris Johnson
P/N13.50 ENV Qualitative & Quantitative Characterization of Low Level Radioactive Waste
Status: Draft has been prepared.
James Hylko
P/N13.53 ENV Guide for Control & Release of Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM)
Status: WG expects to have a final draft ready for N13 balloting at the end of January 2002.
Jean-Claude Dehmel
P/N13.54 MED Fetal Radiation Dose Calculations Michael Stabin
P/N13.55 EXT How to Estimate the Overall Accuracy in Occupational Dose Determinations Al Tschaeche
P/N13.56 INS Procedures and Instrumentation for Characterizing Airborne Radioactivity in the Workplace
Status: PINS Form accepted by ANSI.
Curtis Graham
P/N13.57 MED Performance Specifications for Clinical Xenon-133 Traps Vacant
P/N13.58 MED Methods for Evaluating Radiation Protection Requirements for Handling Radioactive Material
Status: PINS Form accepted by ANSI.
John Bliss
P/N13.59 ENV Characterization of Land Areas and Structures in Support of Decommissioning Eric Abelquist
P/N13.60 ENV Standards for Late-Phase Protection Actions in Post-Nuclear Incidents
Status: HPSSC approved PINS 9/98.
S.Y. Chen
P/N13.61 ENV Sampling and Monitoring Airborne Radioactive Substances from the Ambient Atmosphere A. McFarlande
P/N13.62 ENV Training and Qualifications of Health and Safety Technicians Paula Trinoskey
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* ENV – Environmental Section
EXT - External Dosimetry Section
INT – Internal Dosimetry Section
INS – Instrumentation Section
MED – Medical Health Physics Section

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