This structural acceptance criteria contains the requirements for the structural analysis and design of the Remote Handling Building (RHB) in the Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF). The purpose of this acceptance criteria is to identify the specific criter...
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... OF CRITICAL DEFECT ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA AND MATERIAL REVIEW BOARD (MRB) ANALYSIS OF AS BUILT DEFECTS; SURVEY OF NDE ...
DTIC Science & Technology
Sampling for determination of dry substance in biofuels is complicated and to obtain acceptable results every load should be sampled. To obtain an acceptable result for the dry substance value the following criteria should be fulfilled. A number of small ...
This structural acceptance criteria contains the requirements for the structural analysis and design of the Remote Handling Building (RHB) in the Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF). The purpose of this acceptance criteria is to identify the specific criteria and methods that ...
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The design criteria currently used in the design of radioactive material (RAM) transportation containers are taken from the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (ASME, 1992). These load-based criteria are ideally suited for pressure vessels where the loading is quasistatic and all stresses are in equilibrium with externally applied loads. For impact ...
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Development of acceptable risk criteria for nuclear waste management requires the translation of publicly determined goals and objectives into definitive issues which, in turn, require resolution. Since these issues are largely of a subjective nature, they cannot be resolved by technological methods. Development of acceptable risk ...
Thorough, unbiased hazard analysis is a valuable tool in the process of making decisions concerning industrial plant design, construction and operation. Decisions regarding acceptable risk must take into account such factors as the risks to employees and the environment. Important elements of hazard analysis include exhausting all ...
L. Platzman and M. Athans, "Explicit Cost Sensitivity Analysis for. Linear Systems with Quadratic Criteria", ESL-P-547, July, 1974 (accepted ...
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The author explains what is tested under the Cooling Tower Institute's (CTI) acceptance test procedure. The purpose of the CTI test code is to set standards for acceptance of cooling tower performance. It can be done by an independent consultant or a company can use the criteria for its own analysis.
Reports on the comments and concerns of industry, public and private bodies should the HUD Operation BREAKTHROUGH Guide Criteria, or provisions theory, be adopted as a basis for regulation and acceptance of housing fabricated by industrialized or conventi...
This report contains abstracts of articles which address various aspects of quantitative risk analysis, covering the subjects of numerical risk criteria, methodology and data. The articles were published primarily from 1976 to date in technical journals, ...
This document is a review of 12 methods and criteria for the seismic analysis of piping systems. Each of the twelve chapters in this document cover the important technical aspects of a given method. The technical aspects presented are those the Subcommittee on Dynamic Stress Criteria believe important to the application of the method, ...
... Title : Methodology for Acceptance Criteria for Target Dispersion Characteristics of the Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS) Rounds. Revision. ...
... Title : Methodology for Acceptance Criteria for Target Dispersion Characteristics of the Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS) Rounds. ...
... Title : Establishment of Design Criteria for Acceptable Failure Modes and Fail Safe Considerations for the Space Shuttle Structural System,. ...
... application or consultation. These designs must reflect NMFS design criteria and be acceptable to NMFS. Acceptable designs typically ... fry will be assumed present and the following criteria app...
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... Title : Design Criteria and Preliminary Acceptance Test Specifications for Blast Resistant Windows. Corporate Author : NAVAL CIVIL ENGINEERING ...
... Title : ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR WELD DEFECTS AND NON- DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION PROCEDURES FOR LNG TANKS IN SHIPS. ...
... Title : ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR WELD DEFECTS AND NON- DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION PROCEDURES FOR LNG TANKS IN SHIPS,. ...
... Title : ACCEPT/REJECT CRITERIA FOR STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: PART 4: A COMPUTER SIMULATION OF NONDESTRUCTIVE RELIABILITY ...
... Title : ACCEPT/REJECT CRITERIA FOR STRUCTURAL CERAMICS; PART 3: PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR INCLUSION INITIATED FRACTURE ...
DOE Order 435.1 requires that each treatment, storage, and/or disposal facility (referred to in this document as TSD unit) that manages low-level or transuranic (TRU) waste (including mixed waste and TSCA PCB waste) maintain waste acceptance criteria. These criteria must address the various requirements to operate the TSD unit in ...
The criteria document provides the criteria and planning guidance for developing the Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR). This FSAR will support the US Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office decision to authorize the procurement, installation, installation acceptance testing, ...
This document provides a methodology for defining waste acceptance criteria for the Hanford Replacement Cross-Site Transfer System (RCSTS). This methodology includes characterization, transport analysis, and control. A framework is described for each of these functions. A tool was developed for performing the calculations associated ...
but also some political, psychological and social processes. A number of issues that risk analysis attempt 2005. 8.26-30 THE OVERVIEW AND STUDY ON THE MODELING OF RISK ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR TUNNEL University, Shanghai 200092 China e-mail: huanghw@mail.tongji.edu.cn Abstract: The importance of risk
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The intent of this document is to provide an evaluation to determine if the discovered condition (apparent inconsistency between the Saltstone Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) and the Saltstone PA) is within the assumptions, parameters, and bases of the approved PA and CA. If it is, then this document serves as the technical basis for authorizing the ...
... DETERMINE ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA AND THE OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE WHEN SAMPLING VARIABLES (QUALITY ...
The purpose of this sampling and analysis plan is to determine the chemical, physical and radiological properties of the SRS radioactive Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) liquid waste stream, to verify that it conforms to Waste Acceptance Criteria of the Dep...
... GEMINI LAUNCH VEHICLE ACCEPTANCE SPECIFICATION 1.0 SCOPE ... acceptance criteria and requirements for the Gemini Launch Vehicle, ...
The Office of Environmental Management of the U.S. Department of Energy is responsible for the safe management and disposal of DOE owned defense spent nuclear fuel and high level waste (DSNF/DHLW). A desirable option, direct disposal of the waste in the potential repository at Yucca Mountain, depends on the final waste acceptance criteria, which will be ...
The response of radioactive material transportation packages to mechanical accident loadings can be more accurately characterized by non-linear dynamic analysis than by the ``Equivalent dynamic`` static elastic analysis typically used in the design of these packages. This more accurate characterization of the response can lead to improved package safety ...
... should assess proposed acceptance criteria for residual solvents to determine whether the criteria are consistent with the goal of ensuring product quality. ...
Center for Drug Evaluation (CDER)
This document defines the acceptance criteria for the Automated Transportation Management System V2.0 Logistics Module Performance Based Incentive (PBI). This acceptance criteria will be the primary basis for the generation of acceptance test procedures. ...
...Compliance with acceptable quality level and passing and failing criteria for selective enforcement...Compliance with acceptable quality level and passing and failing criteria for selective enforcement...prescribed acceptable quality level is 40...
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010
...Compliance with acceptable quality level and passing and failing criteria for Selective Enforcement...Compliance with acceptable quality level and passing and failing criteria for Selective Enforcement...prescribed acceptable quality level is 40...
The criteria document provides the criteria and guidance for developing the SNF CVDF Phase 2 SAR. This SAR will support the US Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office decision to authorize the procurement, installation, and installation acceptance testing of the CVDF systems.
This report contains abstracts of articles which address various aspects of quantitative risk analysis, covering the subjects of numerical risk criteria, methodology and data. The articles were published primarily from 1976 to date in technical journals, reports, papers, etc. The articles selected for this report were judged to have relevance to nuclear ...
One key element of a deterministic bulk system planning criteria is the performance table. The table lists contingencies that planners must examine and sets the minimum acceptable performance level for those events. A basic premise is that lower performance levels, in terms of system impacts, are acceptable for events that are less ...
The VIKOR method was developed to solve multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems with conflicting or non-commensurable criteria. This method assumes that compromising is acceptable for conflicting resolution. Although the VIKOR method is a popular method applied in multi-criteria ...
PubMed
A tabular quantitative method of risk analysis for hazard assessment of process equipment failures with human interaction has been developed. It utilizes principles of probability of failure with equipment failure rates, failure logic diagrams, and management approved risk criteria for a maximum acceptable operational level of human ...
... Examples of these procedures are: Melting point (including hot-stage microscopy), solid state IR, X- ray powder diffraction, thermal analysis procedures (like ...
A review of the literature concerning methodologies to determine nurse staffing in nursing homes and related facilities found no single ratio of nurses to patients universally accepted by the scientific or medical community. A similar review to identify c...
Excessive vibration of structures supporting optical equipment degrades equipment performance. Manufacturers' maximum allowable vibration criteria are frequently insufficient for determining the acceptability of a vibration environment. Criteria development and effective dissemination are critical issues which must be adequately ...
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
As part of the structural integrity assessment for Savannah River Site (SRS) piping systems, an acceptance criteria methodology for minimum pipe wall thickness has been developed for carbon steel piping. If a measured pipe thickness during inspection cannot meet the 87.5% of the nominal wall thickness specified in the ASME Code Case N-480, the ...
Probabilistic criteria based upon an acceptance measure of protection for owner investment can complete the range of design probabilistic criteria between those set by acceptance public safety and those set by acceptable reliability in plant operation. Cr...
The purpose of this study was to examine a set of user acceptance criteria for autonomous biological detection systems for application in high-traffic, public facilities. The test case for the acceptance criteria was the Autonomous Pathogen Detection Syst...
...Acceptance criteria for reactor coolant system venting...DOMESTIC LICENSING OF PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION FACILITIES...Acceptance criteria for reactor coolant system venting... Each nuclear power reactor must be provided...
Order 5820.2A requires that each treatment, storage, and/or disposal facility (referred to in this document as TSD unit) that manages low-level or transuranic waste (including mixed waste and TSCA PCB waste) maintain waste acceptance criteria. These criteria must address the various requirements to operate the TSD unit in compliance ...
This report analyzes the Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) data for hot mix asphalt using voids acceptance as the testing criteria for the years 2000 through 2004. Analysis of the overall quality of the HMA is accomplished by reviewing the Calcula...
This Revision 4 of the Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC), WIPP-DOE-069, identifies and consolidates existing criteria and requirements which regulate the safe handling and preparation of Transuranic (TRU) waste packages for transportation to and emplacement in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). This consolidation does not invalidate ...
The structural acceptance criteria contained herein for the evaluation of existing underground double-shell waste storage tanks located at the Hanford Site is part of the Life Management/Aging Management Program of the Tank Waste Remediation System. The purpose of the overall life management program is to ensure that confinement of the waste is maintained ...
... PAVEMENTS, *RUNWAYS, *JOINTS, ACCEPTANCE TESTS, DENSITY, CORES, AIRPORTS, GAGES, MATS, BITUMENS, DENSIMETERS. ...
... Title : SMALL SAMPLE ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING TABLES USING MEAN LIFE CRITERIA BASED ON THE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION ...
... analytical and experimental studies that were performed to develop and substantiate the design, acceptance, and test ... 27 Beam Loading Geometry . ...
Page 1. Appendix F. List of citations accepted and rejected by ECOTOX criteria The citations in this appendix were considered ...
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This document defines the acceptance criteria for the Automated Transportation Management System V2.0 Logistics Module Performance Based Incentive (PBI). This acceptance criteria will be the primary basis for the generation of acceptance test procedures. The purpose of this document is to ...
... Fitness-For-Purpose: A New Look at Weld Defect Acceptance Criteria ... 4: Fitness-For-Purpose: A New Look at Weld Defect Acceptance Criteria 5a. ...
... Physiological Acceptance Criteria f or Cold Weather Clothing 622331 Program El. ... Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility REPORT NUMBER ...
... Title : Acceptance Criteria for Ultrasonic Flaw Indications in the Inner Liner of Double-Shell Waste Storage Tanks,. Corporate Author : ...
... Title : ACCEPT/REJECT CRITERIA FOR STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: PART 2: SOME EFFECT OF CAVITIES ON THE FRACTURE OF CERAMICS II ...
Waste acceptance criteria were developed as part of an overall effort to establish general criteria for the shallow land burial of Department of Energy low-level radioactive waste. Other areas of criteria development include site selection, design, operat...
A preliminary study was initiated to evaluate the conservatism of existing design methods regarding cyclic loadings and crack growth in nuclear power plant components. The study was based on the assumption that the application of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (the Code) should be consistent throughout the design, operation, and inspection phases. Specifically, any undetectable or ...
The Waste Acceptance Criteria Forecasting and Analysis Capability System (WACFACS) is used to plan for, evaluate, and control the supply of approximately 1.8 million yd3 of low-level radioactive, TSCA, and RCRA hazardous wastes from over 60 environmental restoration projects between FY02 through FY10 to the Oak Ridge Environmental ...
We find that the generally accepted security criteria are flawed for a whole class of protocols for quantum cryptography. This is so because a standard assumption of the security analysis, namely that the so-called square-root measurement is optimal for eavesdropping purposes, is not true in general. There are rather large parameter ...
An evaluation has been performed on strain levels determined for the IFSF fuel storage rack for seismic loading. The storage rack had been previously analyzed by a consulting company, Advanced Engineering Consultants (AEC), who reported significant strain levels in several members of the rack. The purpose for the study conducted herein was to refine the method for calculating strain levels, and ...
... Title : An Analysis of the Extent to Which Humor is Accepted and Employed in the Workplace for the Enhancement of Productivity and Creativity. ...
Acceptance process and responsibilities are addressed for Liquid Waste processing facility. It also addresses responsibilities for generators sending wastewater for treatment and for accepting, storing, treating and disposing of wastewater at LWPF.
Planning, preparation, and submittal of safety analysis reports might be pursued in a manner similar to a quality-related procurement, where customer needs, expectations and acceptance criteria are established in advance. Then the product/service provider, the contractor, should apply various quality control processes to assure the ...
This paper presents recommendations of a subcommittee of the Westinghouse M 0 Nuclear Facility Safety Committee concerning toxic chemical risk acceptance criteria. Two sets of criteria have been developed, one for use in the hazard classification of facilities, and the second for use in comparing risks in DOE non-reactor nuclear ...
This paper presents recommendations of a subcommittee of the Westinghouse M & 0 Nuclear Facility Safety Committee concerning toxic chemical risk acceptance criteria. Two sets of criteria have been developed, one for use in the hazard classification of facilities, and the second for use in comparing risks in DOE non-reactor nuclear ...
Experience has shown that a critical part of the high-heat flux (HHF) plasma-facing component (PFC) is the armour to heat sink bond. An experimental study was performed in order to define acceptance criteria with regards to thermal hydraulics and fatigue performance of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) divertor PFCs. This study, ...
This paper presents the criteria, previous nuclear experience in space, analysis techniques, and possible breakup enhancement devices applicable to an acceptable SP-100 reentry from space. Reactor operation in nuclear-safe orbit will minimize the radiological risk; the remaining safeguards criteria need to be ...
The purpose of this waste analysis plan is to document the necessary characterization, sampling, screening, analysis, and waste acceptance criteria for waste received at the WRAP Module 1. Waste expected to be received at WRAP Module 1 includes newly generated and retrieved waste. The newly generated waste will ...
The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the basis of risk analysis, assessment and management, accompanying problems and principles of risk management when drafting an environmental geotechnical model, enabling the analysis of an entire territory or developed region as a whole. The environmental impact will remain within the limits of ...
Unlike quantitative analysis, the quality of the qualitative results in the analysis of pesticide residues in food are generally ignored in practice. Instead, chemists tend to rely on advanced mass spectrometric techniques and general subjective guidelines or fixed acceptability criteria when makin...
Technology Transfer Automated Retrieval System (TEKTRAN)
...NRC-accepted Safety Analysis Report quality assurance program description...the Safety Analysis Report quality assurance program description...continues to satisfy the criteria of § 63.142 and the Safety Analysis Report quality assurance program...
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Cost considerations mandate that the emergency physician consider the use of test strips for glucose analysis. Presented are medical criteria for glucose analysis, a description of available test strips and reflectance meters, and data from studies which compare performance and cost of the strips with laboratory methods. Emergency ...
General review criteria and standards for 13 services are addressed in this document. Each of the areas is divided into four respective categories: quality, need, economic and financial feasibility, and acceptability. The criteria and standards, as labell...
The report briefly describes the development of sediment criteria, discusses their utility and appropriate regulatory applications, and recommends steps to enhance the acceptance of sediment criteria by the regulatory and regulated communities.
Defect Criteria (aka accept/reject criteria, quality criteria): Physical attributes that are evidence of a defect or known to be indicative of the presence of a defect ...
The purpose of this sampling and analysis plan is to determine the chemical, physical and radiological properties of the SRS radioactive Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) liquid waste stream, to verify that it conforms to Waste Acceptance Criteria of the Department of Energy (DOE) East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) Toxic Substance ...
... this data based on criteria ... specifications of recommended modifications and ... AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, ACCEPTABILITY, QUESTIONNAIRES ...
"temperature" is inversely proportional to population diversity #12;Boltzman MAs: acceptance criteria Assuming
... special higher level language. Usuallv these lancuaqes are subsets of ALCOL like languages. The cost of transferring to ...
There is no consensus regarding the definition of cardiac syndrome X (CSX). We systematically reviewed recent literature using a standardized search strategy. We included 57 articles. A total of 47 studies mentioned a male/female distribution. A meta-analysis yielded a pooled proportion of females of 0.56 (n�=�1,934 patients, with 95% confidence interval: 0.54�0.59). As ...
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The purpose of this report is to establish radiological acceptance criteria for uranium. Other factors for acceptance not considered include criticality safety concerns, contaminants to the process stream, and impacts to the Safety Basis for the affected ...
This paper presents recommendations of a subcommittee of the Westinghouse M & 0 Nuclear Facility Safety Committee concerning toxic chemical risk acceptance criteria. Two sets of criteria have been developed, one for use in the hazard classification of fac...
The engineering viability of disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a geologic repository requires a thermal analysis to provide the temperature history of the fuel waste form within the disposal package. Calculated temperatures are used to demonstrate compliance with criteria for waste acceptance into the Mined Geologic Disposal System and ...
The purpose of this document is to summarize the data obtained from the sampling and analysis of selected locations in the Area 514 Facility. The objective of this document is to evaluate the data in a manner that will provide guidance for the final closure document. This guidance will assist in designing a sampling and analysis plan that will be ...
pollutant, ozone is initially generated in the troposphere in the presence of sunlight fromAn observational based analysis of ozone trends and production for urban areas in North Carolina 2 February 1999; accepted 11 August 1999 Importance of this paper: Ozone is a ``criteria pollutant
The author explains how Westinghouse's Test and Analysis Mobile Unit or Tamu, a trailer-mounted facility works. It allows the data bases and analysis capability to be located at a plant construction site so that nuclear plant design verifications can be done more quickly and efficiently. The data can be collected and compared with ...
... o0 TENSOR TRANSFORMATIONS AND FAILURE CRITERIA FOR THE ANALYSIS OF FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIALS ...
Tissue dissociation enzymes are critical reagents that affect the yield and quality of human pancreatic islets required for islet transplantation. The United States Food and Drug Administration's oversight of this procedure recommends laboratories to set acceptance criteria for enzymes used in the manufacture of islet products for transplantation. ...
Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting technical analyses to support the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Guidance, Air, Water, and Radiation Division (DOE/EH-232) in developing radiological control criteria for recycling or reuse of metals or equipment containing residual radioactive contamination from DOE operations. The ...
This acceptance criteria is intended to prevent gross rupture or rapidly propagating failure during normal and abnormal operating conditions. Pitting may be present in the carbon steel piping. While the acceptance criteria have provisions to preclude gross rupture through a pitted region, they do not protect ...
... COOPERATIVE INVESTIGATION OF ACCEPTANCE TEST METHODS FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF POZZOLANS FOR MAHOR OXIDES ...
... AN INVESTIGATION OF AN ALTERNATIVE TO ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING THROUGH A MARKOV CHAIN ANALYSIS OF A MANUFACTURING ...
This report summarizes a preliminary special analysis of the Savannah River Depleted Uranium Trioxide waste stream (SVRSURANIUM03, Revision 2). The analysis is considered preliminary because a final waste profile has not been submitted for review. The special analysis is performed to determine the acceptability of ...
The 241-2 waste tanks are used to store, treat, and transfer waste to Tank Farms. The sampling requirements are established to identify the composition of the tank waste. The primary goal is to meet the Tank Farms acceptance criteria. Tank Farms will not accept waste without extensive characterization sample data. Process and lab ...
Drugs of various classes are prescribed for intermittent claudication. However, there is some discrepancy between medical practice and the scientific basis for drug selection. We have developed a quantitative criteria-based decision analysis to evaluate all implications of drug treatment choices for intermittent claudication. Pentoxifylline, buflomedil, ...
The objective of this short report is to define a set of activities that should lead to a specification for a test that can be used as one of the acceptance criteria and as an indicator of acceptable long-term behavior in contact with water. Since the glass composition is not yet defined and is likely to change as the composition of ...
Liver transplantation is a well-established treatment in a subset of patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The Milan criteria (single nodule up to 5cm, up to three nodules none larger than 3cm, with no evidence of extrahepatic spread or macrovascular invasion) have been traditionally accepted as standard of care. However, some groups have ...
This initial DOE-wide analysis compares the reported national capacity for treatment of mixed wastes with the calculated need for treatment capacity based on both a full treatment of mixed low-level and transuranic wastes to the Land Disposal Restrictions and on treatment of transuranic wastes to the WIPP waste acceptance criteria. The ...
...What controls and acceptance criteria must I have for my finished...What controls and acceptance criteria must I have for my finished...drug product, including criteria for determining identity, strength, quality, purity, and, if...
This report contains human factors engineering design review acceptance criteria developed by the Human Factors Engineering Branch (HFEB) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to use in evaluating designs of the Safety Parameter Display System (SPDS). These criteria were developed in response to the functional design ...
It was recently discovered that waste being disposed of onsite contained radionuclides that had not been analyzed by the Performance Assessment (PA). These radionuclides had been eliminated from the PA in an earlier screening evaluation because they were not expected to be contained in SRS-generated waste or that received from offsite generators. This Special Analysis (SA) is ...
Mobile commerce (MC) refers to e-commerce activities carried out using a mobile device such as a phone or PDA. With new technology, MC will be rapidly growing in the near future. At the present time, what factors making consumer accept MC and what MC applications are acceptable by consumers are two of hot issues both for MC providers and f or MC ...
Certain seismic criteria for the design of nuclear power plants in the United States suggested by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are reviewed to evaluate their appropriateness. In addition, some assumptions used in computer codes which have been accepted in some licensing actions by the NRC are also evaluated. Evaluation methods included ...
This report provides statistical concepts and formulas for defining minimum detectable amount (MDA), bias and precision of sample analytical measurements of radioactivity for radiobioassay purposes. The defined statistical quantities and accuracy criteria were developed for use in standard performance criteria for radiobioassay, but are also useful in ...
