Document means recorded information that describes, specifies, reports, certifies, requires, or provides data or results. A document is not considered a record until it meets the definition of record. Transportation of radioactive materials, accelerators and reactors and their operations are not included. The application of any rule to a nonreactor nuclear facility shall be applied using a graded approach. Nuclear facility means reactor and nonreactor nuclear facilities.
Process means a series of actions that achieves an end or result.
Quality means the condition achieved when an item, service, or process meets or exceeds the user's requirements and expectations. Quality Assurance means all those actions that provide confidence that quality is achieved. Quality Assurance Program or QAP means the overall program established to assign responsibilities and authorities, define policies and requirements, and provide for the performance and assessment of work. Reactor means, unless it is modified by words such as containment, vessel, or core, the entire nuclear reactor facility, including the housing, equipment, and associated areas devoted to the operation and maintenance of one or more reactor cores. Any apparatus that is designed or used to sustain nuclear chain reactions in a controlled manner, including critical and pulsed assemblies and research, test, and power reactors, is defined as a reactor.