ANS Gets Approval on New Meteorological Standard

The American National Standards Institute approved ANSI/ANS-3.11-2015, “Determining Meteorological Information at Nuclear Facilities,” (revision of ANSI/ANS-3.11-2005 (R2010) on August 20, 2015. The standard is in production and will be available soon.

This standard provides criteria for gathering, assembling, processing, storing, and disseminating meteorological information at commercial nuclear electric generating stations, U.S. Department of Energy facilities, and other national or international nuclear facilities. The revision includes advances in ex situ and in situ instrumentation, data management equipment and techniques, meteorological program management, improvements in integration with facility programs (e.g., configuration management), cyber security, software quality assurance, and other programmatic considerations.

ANSI/ANS-3.11-2015 in production and will be available soon.