Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 151ab883-1221-4a79-88d6-a2631cce2239
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2134/ML21347A080.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-05
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Section ID: RG-1.184
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informing decisions related to nuclear safety. In addition, the NRC amended the decommissioning rule to change the portion of 10 CFR 72.72(d) that requires records for spent fuel in storage to be kept in duplicate for the ISFSI. The change allows such records to be stored in a single location as long as an NRC-approved quality assurance program (QAP) controls the record storage location. Specifically, 10 CFR 72.140(d) states that the NRC will accept a QAP that the agency has approved as meeting the applicable requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, as satisfying the requirements of 10 CFR 72.140(b) for establishing an ISFSI QAP; however, the licensee must also meet the recordkeeping provisions of 10 CFR 72.174, “Quality Assurance Records.” This change will not affect the record content, retrievability, or retention requirements in 10 CFR 72.72, “Material Balance, Inventory, and Records Requirements for Stored Materials,” or 10 CFR 72.174. In making these recordkeeping changes, the NRC determined that the process and procedures that will be used to store the ISFSI records (i.e., in accordance with the QAP at a facility designed for protection against degradation mechanisms such as fire, humidity, and condensation) will help ensure that the licensee will adequately maintain the required spent fuel information. Therefore, changes that result from the duplicate record requirement of 10 CFR 72.72(d) will not affect public health and safety and will not endanger life or property. In addition, allowing the ISFSI spent fuel records to be stored in the same manner as that of other quality assurance records for the nuclear facility allows greater efficiency in the storage of all records once the facility enters the final stages of decommissioning, whereby only the ISFSI facility will remain after license termination. Requiring a separate method for the storage of certain ISFSI quality assurance records diverts resources from decommissioning activities. 8.6 Fire