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Designation:C149014Standard Guide forthe Selection,Training and Qualification of NondestructiveAssay(NDA)Personnel1This standard is issued under the fixed designation C1490;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.1.Scope1.1 This guide contains good practices for the selection,training,qualification,and professional development of per-sonnelperforminganalysis,calibration,physicalmeasurements,or data review using nondestructive assayequipment,methods,results,or techniques.The guide alsocovers NDA personnel involved with NDA equipment setup,selection,diagnosis,troubleshooting,or repair.General guide-lines for the selection,training,and qualification of NDAauditors are included as well,but at a lower level of detail dueto the variability of the personnels responsibilities performingthis functions.Selection,training,and qualification programsbased on this guide are intended to provide assurance that NDApersonnel are suitably qualified and experienced personnel(SQEP)to perform their jobs competently.This guide presentsa series of options but does not recommend a specific course ofaction.This standard guide does not address the qualifications perse of an NDA Manager.However,it is expected that the NDAManager is familiar with NDA techniques,and can makeinformed decisions on the acceptability of the assay results.Ifan NDA Manager does not have adequate technical qualifica-tions in the NDA field,they are recommended to undergotraining to gain familiarity in this area.An NDA Manager with no relevant NDA experienceshould have access to a Senior NDAProfessional who will giveguidance for all technical decisions such as applicability andlimitation of methods,reasonableness of results,needed up-grades and advantageous development investments.2.Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:2C1030 Test Method for Determination of Plutonium IsotopicComposition by Gamma-Ray SpectrometryC1133 Test Method for Nondestructive Assay of SpecialNuclear Material in Low-Density Scrap and Waste bySegmented Passive Gamma-Ray ScanningC1207 Test Method for Nondestructive Assay of Plutoniumin Scrap and Waste by Passive Neutron CoincidenceCountingC1221 Test Method for Nondestructive Analysis of SpecialNuclear Materials in Homogeneous Solutions by Gamma-Ray SpectrometryC1268 Test Method for Quantitative Determination of Am-ericium 241 in Plutonium by Gamma-Ray SpectrometryC1316 Test Method for Nondestructive Assay of NuclearMaterial in Scrap and Waste by Passive-Active NeutronCounting Using252Cf ShufflerC1455 Test Method for Nondestructive Assay of SpecialNuclear Material Holdup Using Gamma-Ray Spectro-scopic MethodsC1458 Test Method for Nondestructive Assay of Plutonium,Tritium and241Am by Calorimetric AssayC1493 Test Method for Non-Destructive Assay of NuclearMaterial in Waste by Passive and Active Neutron Count-ing Using a Differential Die-Away SystemC1500 Test Method for Nondestructive Assay of Plutoniumby Passive Neutron Multiplicity CountingC1514 Test Method for Measurement of235U Fraction UsingEnrichment Meter PrincipleC1592 Guide for Nondestructive Assay MeasurementsC1673 Terminology of C26.10 Nondestructive Assay Meth-odsC1718 Test Method for Nondestructive Assay of Radioac-tive Material by Tomographic Gamma ScanningC1726 Guide for Use of Modeling for Passive GammaMeasurements3.Terminology3.1 Refer to Terminology C1673 for definitions used in thistest method.1This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee C26 on Nuclear FuelCycle and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee C26.10 on Non DestructiveAssay.Current edition approved Jan.1,2014.Published March 2014.Originallyapproved in 2001.Last previous edition approved in 2010 as C149004(2010).DOI:10.1520/C1490-14.2For referenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandardsvolume information,refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website.Copyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959.United States1 4.Significance and Use4.1 The process of selection,training and qualification ofpersonnel involved with NDA measurements is one of thequality assurance elements for an overall quality NDA mea-surement program.4.2 This guide describes an approach to selection,qualification,and training of personnel that is to be used inconjunction with other NDA Quality Assurance(QA)programelements.The selection,qualification and training processescan vary and this guide provides one such approach.4.3 The qualification activities described in this guide as-sume that NDA personnel are already proficient in generalfacility operations and safety procedures.The training andactivities that developed this prof