- Author
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Paras, P.
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Tapert, A. C.
- Title
- Ionization Chamber Smoke Detector Meeting Held in Rockville, Maryland on January 12, 1978.
- Coporate
- Bureau of Radiological Health, Rockville, MD
- Sponsor
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
- Report
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DHEW/PUB/FDA-80-8101; FDA/BRH-80/24,
October 1979,
66 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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smoke detectors
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ionization chambers
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fire detection systems
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fire safety
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safety devices
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effectiveness
- Abstract
- This publication contains presentations and discussions of an informal meeting on Ionization Chamber Smoke Detectors (ICSD), which was held at the Bureau of Radiological Health, Rockville, Maryland, on January 12, 1978. The purpose of this meeting was to exchange technical information on the impact of ICSD and implementation of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) standard, which was approved by a committee convened in Paris, France, in May 1977, and to discuss the effectiveness of the various existing ICSD standards. For this purpose, U. S. agencies were invited to this meeting. The presentations covered both general and specific problems. The discussions served to clarify the intent of the NEA standard, the details of specific problems, potential solutions, and suggested the need for careful safety considerations with the increased use of ionization chamber smoke detectors.