Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: f885abea-c146-404b-b0f6-c4ded333294f
Document Type: srp
Title: SPENT FUEL STORAGE
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070503.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.1.2
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nction of the integrated system will be maintained during adverse environmental conditions. In addition, the reviewer verifies that the following are included in the design: a. An interconnecting fuel transfer canal should be capable of being isolated from the fuel pool and cask loading area. A statement in the SAR that these features are included in the design is acceptable. The reviewer uses engineering judgment to assure himselfverify that the means provided meet the stated intent. 67 b. In regard to the handling of heavy loads, e.g., the spent fuel shipping cask in the vicinity of the spent fuel storage pool, the reviewer is required to establish and verify in SRP Section 9.1.5 that one of the alternative approaches described in Section 5 of NUREG-0612 has been satisfied. If Sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.6 of NUREG-0612 have not been met, the SAR safety evaluations, results of design calculations, and the general arrangement and layout drawings should show that the spent fuel loading putpit has been designed to withstand the loads from dropped 68 heavy objects including the shipping cask, and that the loading area is not an integral part of the storage pool floor so that if a dropped object should breach the ------------- The implementation of this item reflects current regulatory practice. The methods of review 1 described herein will be used in the evaluation of submittals for operating license or construction permit applications docketed after November 17, 1977, which is based on the first application to which this method was specifically applied. Implementation for applications docketed prior to November 17, 1977 is not considered necessary since stresses induced in the fuel pool liner plate welds due to an SSE will usually be well below the maximum allowable stress levels and therefore liner failure is not considered a likely event. Even in the event that a liner plate failed, it would not likely block the coolant outlet of spent fuel assemblies completely and