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Publication CODE Title
IEC 60860:2014 (2014-06) RADIATION PROTECTION INSTRUMENTATION - WARNING EQUIPMENT FOR CRITICALITY ACCIDENTS
 
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Description
IEC 60860:2014 prescribes general, radiation detection, environmental, mechanical, electromagnetic and documentation requirements and specifies acceptance criteria for criticality accident warning equipment. This International Standard applies to equipment intended to provide warning of a criticality accident by the detection of gamma radiation, neutrons or both from such an event. The main technical changes with regard to the previous edition are as follows:
- reference to IEC 61508 concerning the safety classification;
- introducing requirement for the alarm sound level;
- energy response requirement changes;
- specification of time period of 1 min for the overload requirement;
- updated EMC, mechanical and environmental requirements according to IEC 62706.
Class  C990  (IEC PUBLICATIONS IEC PUBLICATIONS)
Available files
EN/FR version

Status
Status IEC PUBLICATION
Situation Currently active
Replaces  IEC 60860:1987
Origin
Committee TC 45/SC 45B
RADIATION PROTECTION INSTRUMENTATION
Responsible Ir DELENS Marc
Approval
BEC Approval 2014-06-19
ICS-Code (International Standards Classification) 13.280
NBN Status New
IEC publication date 2014-06-19
IEC stability date 2020-12-31
IEC file modification date 2014-06-16
IEC last modification date 2017-11-24