Applicable to all operations involving fissionable materials in which inadvertent criticality can occur and cause personnel to receive unacceptable exposure to radiation.This standard is not applicable to detection of criticality events where no excessive exposure to personnel is credible, nor to nuclear reactors or critical experiments. This standard does not include details of administrative actions or of emergency response actions that occur after alarm activation.
ANSI/ANS 8.3-1997 history
1970ANSI/ANS 8.3-2022 An American National Standard Published by the American Nuclear Society