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This document specifies a publication sub-model within the DATEX II model that supports the publication of electronic traffic regulations and controlled zones.
This publication is intended to support the exchange of informational content from road traffic authorities issuing traffic regulation orders and organizations implementing these orders to other organizations providing ITS services or onward information exchange.

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This document specifies a method for the enumeration of intestinal enterococci in water, including Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Enterococcus durans, Enterococcus avium, Enterococcus gallinarum, Enterococcus hirae, Enterococcus casselifavus. The method is based on the growth of target organisms in a liquid medium and calculation of the “most probable number” (MPN) of microorganisms by reference to MPN tables or using suitable MPN informatic programs.
This method can be applied to drinking water and bathing water (fresh or marine), together with other similar water types including those containing an appreciable amount of suspended matter, and allows the detection of enterococci at 1 colony-forming unit (CFU) per 100 ml with definitive results within (26 ± 2) h in the presence of heterotrophic bacteria in numbers as high as 1 × 106 per 100 ml of sample.
For bathing waters, fresh and marine, enterococci are best enumerated when samples are diluted 1:10.
The test specified in this document relies upon the detection of intestinal enterococci based upon expression of the enzyme ß-D-glucosidase and provides a confirmed result in 24 h without further testing of positive wells.
This document does not apply to bottled waters, for which the method has not been validated and therefore is outside the scope of this document, unless appropriate validation of performance of this method has been undertaken by the laboratory prior to use.

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From this edition, the CLC TS 50654-2 is the adoption (identical) of the IEC TS 63291-2 (not covered by a parallel procedure).
This document defines aspects on planning, specification, and execution of multi-vendor HVDC grid systems also referred to as HVDC grids. The terms "HVDC grid systems" or "HVDC grids" are used in this document to describe HVDC systems for power transmission having more than two HVDC stations connected to a common DC circuit. The DC circuit can be of radial or meshed topology or a combination thereof. In this document, the term "HVDC grids" is used.
While this document focuses on requirements specific for HVDC grids, some requirements are considered applicable to all HVDC systems in general, i.e., including point-to-point HVDC systems. Existing IEC (e.g., IEC TR 63363-1 [1]), Cigre or other relevant documents have been used for reference as far as possible.
Corresponding to electric power transmission applications, this document is applicable to high voltage systems, i.e., those having typically nominal DC voltages higher than 50 kV with respect to earth are considered in this document.
NOTE While the physical principles of DC networks are basically voltage independent, the technical options for designing equipment get much wider with lower DC voltage levels, e.g. in the case of converters or switchgear.
This document covers technical aspects of:
•   coordination of HVDC grid and AC systems,
•   HVDC grid characteristics,
•   HVDC grid control,
•   HVDC grid protection,
•   AC/DC converter stations,
•   HVDC grid installations, including DC switching stations and HVDC transmission lines,
•   studies and associated models,
•   testing.
Beyond the scope of this document, the following content is proposed for future work:
•   DC/DC converter stations.

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This International Standard specifies a method for the determination of the genotoxic potential of water and waste water using the bacterial strains Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype Typhimurium TA 98 and
TA 100 in a fluctuation assay. This combination of strains is able to measure the genotoxicity of chemicals that  induce point mutations (base pair substitutions and frameshift mutations) in genes coding for enzymes that are   involved in the biosynthesis of the amino acid, histidine.

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This document establishes key principles for the investigation of microplastics in drinking water and water with low content of natural suspended solids using a microscopy technique coupled with vibrational spectroscopy.
This method is applicable to:
—    determine the size of microplastics [which range from 1 µm to 5 000 µm], count them and classify them by size range;
—    identify the chemical composition of microplastics, the main ones (most used in industry and most abundant in the environment) being: polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polycarbonate (PC), polystyrene (PS), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyamide (PA), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polyurethane (PU);
This method is applicable to water with a low content of organic matter and other suspended matter as defined in ISO 6107 (1 mg/l to 100 mg/l or lower when interfering with the determination), i.e.,
—    ultrapure water;
—    water intended for human consumption;
—    raw groundwaters.
Given the very low concentrations of microplastics usually present in these waters, special attention needs to be paid to potential sources of contamination during sample preparation.
This method is intended to determine and characterize large numbers of particles in the sample in automatic mode.
This method can also identify the nature of the other particles that are outside the scope of this document, for example minerals, proteins, cellulose and pigments.
This method does not apply to the characterization of substances intentionally added to or adsorbed on the surface of microplastics. This method does not apply to the determination of the geometric shape of microplastics.

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This document specifies a method for the photometric determination of dissolved chromium(VI) using manual, (e.g. hand photometry), automated static (e.g. discrete analyser system) or automated dynamic [e.g. flow injection analysis (FIA), continuous flow analysis (CFA)] or ion chromatography with post-column reaction (IC-PCR)] techniques.
The method described in this document is applicable for other matrices, such as leachates from landfills and raw wastewater, after appropriate method validation.

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This document is concerned with the assessment of fish survival in pumping stations and hydropower plants, defined as the fraction of fish that passes an installation without significant injury. It does not concern indirect consequences of such installations, usually included in the notions ‘fish safety’ or ‘fish-friendliness’, like avoidance of fish affecting migration, behavioural changes, injury during attempted upstream passage, temporary stunning of fish resulting in potential predation, or depleted oxygen levels.
This document applies to pumps and turbines in pumping stations and hydropower plants that operate in or between bodies of surface water, in rivers, in streams or estuaries containing resident and/or migratory fish stocks. Installations include centrifugal pumps (radial type, mixed-flow type, axial type), Archimedes screws, and water turbines (Francis type, Kaplan type, Bulb type, Straflo type, etc.).
The following methods to assess fish survival are described:
—   Survival tests involving the paired release of live fish, introduced in batches of test and control fish upstream and downstream of an installation, and the subsequent recapture in full-flow collection nets. The method is applicable to survival tests in the field and in a laboratory environment. (Clause 6);
—   A validated model-based computational method consisting of a blade encounter model and correlations that quantify the biological response to blade strike (Clause 7).
The computational method can be used to scale results from laboratory fish survival tests to full-scale installations operating under different conditions (Clause 8).
The survival tests and computational method can also be applied to open-water turbines, with the caveats mentioned in Annex C.
The results of a survival test or a computed estimation can be compared with a presumed maximum sustainable mortality rate for a given fish population at the site of a pumping station or hydropower plant. However, this document does not define these maximum rates allowing to label a machine as “fish-friendly”, nor does it describe a method for determining such a maximum.
This document offers an integrated method to assess fish survival in pumping stations and hydropower plants by fish survival tests and model-based calculations. It allows (non-)government environmental agencies to evaluate the impact on resident and migratory fish stocks in a uniform manner. Thus the document will help to support the preservation of fish populations and reverse the trend of declining migratory fish stocks. Pump and turbine manufacturers will benefit from the document as it sets uniform and clear criteria for fish survival assessment. Further, the physical model that underlies the computational method in the document, may serve as a tool for new product development. To academia and research institutions, this document represents the baseline of shared understanding. It will serve as an incentive for further research in an effort to fill the omissions and to improve on existing assessment methods.

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This document provides requirements to identify visible imperfections and defines three preparation grades for welds, edges and surfaces of steel to assist in achieving efficient corrosion protection. Such imperfections can be visible before or can become visible after an abrasive blast cleaning process.
NOTE       Although this document has been developed specifically for preparation of steel, the defined preparation grades will generally be appropriate for use when preparing other metal surfaces e.g. aluminium, castings, if agreed.

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This document specifies a method for the sampling and laboratory preparation of benthic diatoms for ecological status and water quality assessments. The sampling and preparation procedures described can be used for later investigations using either light microscopy or molecular methods. Data produced by this method are suitable for production of indices based on the relative abundance of taxa.
Analysis using molecular methods is not within the scope of the document.

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This document specifies methods for the measurement of the absorbed-dose rate in a tissue-equivalent slab phantom in the ISO 6980 reference beta-particle radiation fields. The energy range of the beta-particle-emitting isotopes covered by these reference radiations is 0,22 MeV to 3,6 MeV maximum beta energy corresponding to 0,07 MeV to 1,2 MeV mean beta energy. Radiation energies outside this range are beyond the scope of this document. While measurements in a reference geometry (depth of 0,07 mm or 3 mm at perpendicular incidence in a tissue‑equivalent slab phantom) with an extrapolation chamber used as primary standard are dealt with in detail, the use of other measurement systems and measurements in other geometries are also described, although in less detail. However, as noted in ICRU 56, the ambient dose equivalent, H*(10), used for area monitoring, and the personal dose equivalent, Hp(10), as used for individual monitoring, of strongly penetrating radiation, are not appropriate quantities for any beta radiation, even that which penetrates 10 mm of tissue (Emax > 2 MeV).
This document is intended for those organizations wishing to establish primary dosimetry capabilities for beta particles and serves as a guide to the performance of dosimetry with an extrapolation chamber used as primary standard for beta‑particle dosimetry in other fields. Guidance is also provided on the statement of measurement uncertainties.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the transmission of detonation from one detonating cord connected to another detonating cord.
This document does not apply to safety fuses.

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This document describes procedures for calibrating and determining the response of dosemeters and dose-rate meters in terms of the operational quantities for radiation protection purposes defined by the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU). However, as noted in ICRU 56, the ambient dose equivalent, H*(10), used for area monitoring, and the personal dose equivalent, Hp(10), as used for individual monitoring, of strongly penetrating radiation, are not appropriate quantities for any beta radiation, even that which penetrates 10 mm of tissue (Emax > 2 MeV).
This document is a guide for those who calibrate protection-level dosemeters and dose-rate meters with beta-reference radiation and determine their response as a function of beta-particle energy and angle of incidence. Such measurements can represent part of a type test during the course of which the effect of other influence quantities on the response is examined. This document does not cover the in-situ calibration of fixed, installed area dosemeters. The term “dosemeter” is used as a generic term denoting any dose or dose-rate meter for individual or area monitoring. In addition to the description of calibration procedures, this document includes recommendations for appropriate phantoms and the way to determine appropriate conversion coefficients. Guidance is provided on the statement of measurement uncertainties and the preparation of calibration records and certificates.

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This document specifies requirements for explosives for blasting, boosters and explosive substances.
This document also applies to black powder when used for blasting.
NOTE   This document does not apply to black powder when used as propellant, for pyrotechnics or for safety fuses; for requirements for black powder used as propellant, for pyrotechnics or for safety fuses see EN 13938-1:2025.

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This document specifies the measurement and test methods for the general characteristics of cold formed helical compression springs made from round wire, excluding dynamic testing.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the insensitiveness to friction of the core of detonating cords.
This document does not apply to safety fuses.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the capacitance, insulation resistance and insulation breakdown of leading wires of electric detonators and electronic detonators.
This document does not apply to non-electric detonators, surface connectors, detonating cord relays, shock tubes and electronic initiation systems.

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This document specifies guidelines and instructions for the graphical representation of particle size analysis data in histograms, distribution densities and cumulative distributions. It also establishes a standard nomenclature to obtain the histograms, distribution densities and cumulative distributions from measured particle size data. This document applies to the graphical representation of particle size distributions (PSDs) of solid particles, droplets or gas bubbles covering all size ranges.

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This document specifies test methods for the determination of the chemical compatibility of packaging/ IBC made from polyethylene (PE), fluorinated polyethylene and co-extruded plastics. It covers the determination of adequate plastics compatibility against the following processes of deterioration: — softening due to absorption (swelling); — stress cracking; — combinations thereof. This document is applicable to: — drums and jerricans made from plastics; — composite packaging (plastics) with inner receptacle made from plastics; — rigid plastics IBCs (types 31H1 and 31H2); — composite IBCs with rigid plastics inner receptacles (type 31HZ1); used for the transport of liquid dangerous goods. Proof of adequate plastics compatibility obtained using the test procedures specified in this document is only applicable to the above packaging and IBC types of the following materials and material specifications: — packaging and IBCs made from PE; — packaging and IBCs made from PE, whose internal surfaces are fluorinated; and — packaging and IBCs which are coextrusion blow moulded and have walls with the following multilayer structure (from inside to outside): — polyamide (PA), bonding agents, PE, or — ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH), bonding agents, PE. Note Packaging and IBCs made from PE and packaging and IBCs made from PE with fluorinated internal surfaces, deteriorate additionally due to molecular degradation reactions with the corresponding packaged substances. For this, the chemical compatibility can also be verified by the type tests described in ISO 13274:2013, Annex B, B.2.3, using the standard liquid nitric acid (55 %) or appropriate original packaged substances. Packaging made from Coex PE/PA and Coex PE/EVOH is not resistant to polar acid molecularly degrading substances such as nitric acid, with the result that a corresponding method is not considered for this process of deterioration in this document.

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This document specifies the applicable requirements related to the design and the operation of confinement and ventilation systems for fusion facilities for tritium fuels and tritium fuel handling facilities specific for fusion applications for peaceful purposes using high tritium inventories, as well as for their specialized buildings such as hot cells, examination laboratories, emergency management centres, radioactive waste treatment and storage facilities.
In most countries, a tritium quantity is declared as high for tritium inventories higher than a range of 10 g to 100 g. In the tritium fusion facilities in the scope of this document, the tritium inventory is deemed to be higher than this range for the whole site.
This document applies especially to confinement and ventilation systems that ensure the safety function of nuclear facilities involved in nuclear fusion with the goal to protect the workers, the public and the environment from the dissemination of radioactive contamination originating from the operation of these installations, and in particular from airborne tritium contamination with adequate confinement systems.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the resistance to abrasion of detonating cords.
This document does not apply to safety fuses.

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This document specifies a method for the determination of the hydrogen-reducible oxygen content of metallic powders containing mass percentage of 0,05 % to 3 % oxygen.
This document is applicable to unalloyed, partially alloyed or completely alloyed metal powders and also to mixtures of carbides and binder metal. This document is not applicable to powders containing lubricants or organic binders.
This document can be extended to powders containing carbon by the use of a special catalytic device. This document is intended to be used in conjunction with ISO 760 and ISO 4491-1.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the insensitiveness to impact of detonating cords.
This document does not apply to safety fuses.

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This document specifies the measurement and test methods for general characteristics of cold formed helical extension springs made from round wire, excluding dynamic testing.

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This document specifies an interface within the software system infrastructure (SSI) that provides radio frequency identification (RFID) system control components with low-level access to RFID interrogators for the purpose of optimizing RFID data access and control operations. This interface is designed to be modular with the ability to support multiple RFID air protocols. However, in this document, the only RFID air protocol supported is ISO/IEC 18000-63:2021.

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This document specifies a method for determining the electrical resistance of electric detonators. This document applies to explosives for civil uses.

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This document specifies the measurement and test methods for general characteristics of cold formed cylindrical helical torsion springs made from round wire, excluding dynamic testing.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the resistance to mechanical tension of detonating cords.
This document does not apply to safety fuses.

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IEC 63522-30:2025 defines a standard test method to determine contact sticking of relays as part of the normal service life, i.e., devices under test (DUTs) fail to open within a specified time, due to, for example, effects of remanence, chemical effects, or high temperature. It does not cover contact sticking during or after electrical endurance testing or due to other validation tests for relays.

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This document describes a generic test method for measuring alpha emitting radionuclides, for all types of samples (soil, sediment, construction material, foodstuff, water, airborne, environmental bio-indicator, human biological samples as urine, faeces etc.) by alpha spectrometry. This method can be used for any type of environmental study or monitoring of alpha emitting radionuclides activities.
If relevant, this test method requires appropriate sample pre-treatment followed by specific chemical separation of the test portion in order to obtain a thin source proper to alpha spectrometry measurement.
This test method can be used to determine the activity, specific activity or activity concentration of a sample containing alpha emitting radionuclides such as 210Po, 226Ra, 228Th, 229Th, 230Th, 232Th, 232U,234U, 235U, 238U, 238Pu, 239+240Pu, 241Am or 243+244Cm.
This test method can be used to measure very low levels of activity, one or two orders of magnitude less than the usual natural levels of alpha emitting radionuclides. Annexes B of UNSCEAR 2000 and UNSCEAR 2008  give, respectively, typical natural activity concentrations for air, foods, drinking waters and, soils and building materials. The detection limit of the test method depends on the amount of the sample material analysed (mass or volume) after concentration, chemical yield, thickness of measurement source and counting time.
The quantity of the sample to be collected and analysed depends on the expected activity of the sample and the detection limit to achieve.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the resistance to water of detonating cords and safety fuses.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the flash-over voltage of electric detonators.
This document does not apply to non-electric, electronic, plain or semi-finished detonators.
This document does not apply to surface connectors, detonating cord relays, leading wires, shock tubes, coupling accessories and electronic initiation systems.

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This International standard describes requirements, design and installation of flexible pipe
elements (e.g.,
metallic flexible pipe, metallic flexible tube, vibration isolator, expansion joint) and non-metallic
tube used in the refrigerant circuits of refrigerating systems and heat pumps.
It also describes the requirements to qualify the tightness and permeability of non-metallic tubes
(e.g., plastic) used in evaporating and/or condensing sides of refrigerating systems and heat
pumps.
This International standard does not apply to flexible pipes that are only occasionally stressed
beyond the
elastic limit (e.g., during repair work), or to joints that are free to rotate or hinge.

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This document provides requirements and guidance regarding the use of CAAS for operations of a nuclear facility. Requirements and guidance on CAAS design are provided in the IEC 60860.
This document is applicable to operations with fissile materials outside nuclear reactors but within the boundaries of nuclear establishments.
This document applies when a need for CAAS has been established. Information about the need for CAAS is given in Annex C.
This document does not include details of administrative steps, which are considered to be activities of a robust management system (ISO 14943 provides details of administrative steps).
Details of nuclear accident dosimetry and personnel exposure evaluations are not within the scope of this document.
This document is concerned with gamma and neutron radiation rate-sensing systems. Specific detection criteria can also be met with integrating systems; systems detecting either neutron or gamma radiation can also be used. Equivalent considerations then apply.

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The purpose of this document is to give an overview of the minimum requirements for performing the dicentric assay with quality control measures using mitogen stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes for initial assessment of individuals involved in a mass casualty scenario. The dicentric assay is the use of chromosome damage to quickly estimate approximate radiation doses received by individuals in order to supplement the early clinical categorization of casualties.
This document focuses on the organizational and operational aspects of applying the dicentric assay in an initial assessment mode. The technical aspects of the dicentric assay can be found in ISO 19238.
This document is applicable either to an experienced biological dosimetry laboratory working alone or to a network of collaborating laboratories (as defined in Clause 7).

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This document deals with the assessment of human exposure to metals and metalloids from ingestion of soil. It specifies a simplified method for the prediction of the oral bioaccessibility of metals and metalloids from contaminated soils. The method is a chemical extraction using hydrochloric acid (HCl) and can be used at least for first-tier screening for prediction of the oral bioaccessibility of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in soil samples. It produces extracts that are representative of the bioaccessible concentrations measured by using the validated unified bioaccessibility method (UBM) (ISO 17924). More specifically, from the extractable concentrations of metals and metalloids by HCl, the predicted bioaccessibility in both the gastric and gastrointestinal phases is calculated using the equations and the prediction intervals provided in this document, and which have been derived from simple linear regressions of data obtained during validation studies.[ REF Reference_ref_2 \r \h 2 08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B0200000008000000100000005200650066006500720065006E00630065005F007200650066005F0032000000 ] NOTE The simplified method is applicable to prediction of the metals and metalloids bioaccessibility in soil with total concentrations range from 2 mg/kg to 2 600 mg/kg for As, from 0,2 mg/kg to 480 mg/kg for Cd, and from 4 mg/kg to 50 000 mg/kg for Pb.

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This document specifies methods and means of monitoring for inadvertent movement and illicit trafficking of radioactive material. It provides guidelines on the use of both stationary and portable, for example hand-held, instruments to monitor for radiation signatures from radioactive material. Emphasis is placed on the operational aspects, i.e., requirements derived for monitoring of traffic and commodities mainly at border-crossing facilities. Although the term border is used repeatedly in this document, it is meant to apply not only to international land borders but also maritime ports, airports, and similar locations where goods or individuals are being checked. This document does not specifically address the issue of detection of radioactive materials at recycling facilities, although it is recognized that transboundary movement of metals for recycling occurs, and that monitoring of scrap metals might be done at the borders of a state.
This document is applicable to
—    regulatory bodies and other competent authorities seeking guidance on implementation of action plans to combat illicit trafficking,
—    law enforcement agencies, for example border guards, to obtain guidelines on recommended monitoring procedures,
—    equipment manufacturers in order to understand minimum requirements derived from operational necessities according to this document, and
—    end-users of radiation detection equipment applicable to this document.

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This document specifies the requirements for reference beta radiation fields produced by radioactive sources to be used for the calibration of personal and area dosemeters and dose-rate meters to be used for the determination of the quantities Hp(0,07), H'(0,07;Ω), Hp(3) and H'(3;Ω), and for the determination of their response as a function of beta particle energy and angle of incidence. The basic quantity in beta dosimetry is the absorbed-dose rate in a tissue-equivalent slab phantom. This document gives the characteristics of radionuclides that have been used to produce reference beta radiation fields, gives examples of suitable source constructions and describes methods for the measurement of the residual maximum beta particle energy and the dose equivalent rate at a depth of 0,07 mm in the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) sphere. The energy range involved lies between 0,22 MeV and 3,6 MeV maximum beta energy corresponding to 0,07 MeV to 1,2 MeV mean beta energy and the dose equivalent rates are in the range from about 10 µSv·h-1 to at least 10 Sv·h-1.. In addition, for some sources, variations of the dose equivalent rate as a function of the angle of incidence are given. However, as noted in ICRU 56[5], the ambient dose equivalent, H*(10), used for area monitoring, and the personal dose equivalent, Hp(10), as used for individual monitoring, of strongly penetrating radiation, are not appropriate quantities for any beta radiation, even that which penetrates 10 mm of tissue (Emax > 2 MeV).
This document is applicable to two series of reference beta radiation fields, from which the radiation necessary for determining the characteristics (calibration and energy and angular dependence of response) of an instrument can be selected.
Series 1 reference radiation fields are produced by radioactive sources used with beam-flattening filters designed to give uniform dose equivalent rates over a large area at a specified distance. The proposed sources of 106Ru/106Rh, 90Sr/90Y, 85Kr, 204Tl and 147Pm produce maximum dose equivalent rates of approximately 200 mSv·h–1.
Series 2 reference radiation fields are produced without the use of beam-flattening filters, which allows large area planar sources and a range of source-to-calibration plane distances to be used. Close to the sources, only relatively small areas of uniform dose rate are produced, but this series has the advantage of extending the energy and dose rate ranges beyond those of series 1. The series also include radiation fields using polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) absorbers to reduce the maximum beta particle energy. The radionuclides used are those of series 1; these sources produce dose equivalent rates of up to 10 Sv·h–1.

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This test method specifies a test method for the verification of the resistance to abrasion of leading wires of electric and electronic detonators as well as shock tubes of non-electric detonators, surface connectors and electronic detonators.
This document does not apply to detonating cord relays and electronic initiation systems.

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This test method specifies a test method for the verification of the resistance to cutting damage of leading wires and shock tubes of leading wires of electric and electronic detonators as well as shock tubes of non-electric detonators, surface connectors and electronic detonators.
This document does not apply to detonating cord relays and electronic initiation systems.

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This document specifies a test method for the verification of the transmission of detonation of cartridged explosives for blasting.
This document does not apply to blasting explosives in bulk form, boosters, black powder and explosive substances.

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This document specifies the classification, structure and code, design requirements and testing methods of a marine combined connecting mooring line (hereinafter referred to as a combined line), which consists of a mooring line, connection device and tail. This document applies to the design, manufacture and inspection of combined lines for tankers.

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This document specifies test methods for the verification of the initiation of explosives for blasting and boosters by its means of initiation.
The means of initiation for explosives for blasting covered in this document are detonators, detonating cords and boosters. The means of initiation for boosters covered in this document are detonators and detonating cords.
This document does not apply to black powder used for blasting and explosive substances.

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This document specifies a method for determining the water absorption of leather under static conditions. The method is applicable to all leather, particularly heavy leather.

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