Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 7fa0e9f9-cb40-463b-adc5-53fe2057e43f
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Fresh and Spent Fuel Pool Criticality Analysis + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2020 – DG-1373 , Proposed Revision 0
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2018/ML20182A788.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.240
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NUREG/CR-7194, “Technical Basis for Peak Reactivity Burnup Credit for BWR Spent Nuclear Fuel in Storage and Transportation Systems,” (Ref. 11), provides additional information regarding the use of boiling water reactor fuel peak reactivity in criticality analyses. • RG 1.13, “Spent Fuel Storage Facility Design Basis,” (Ref. 12), may be applicable because of its discussion of systems, structures, and components that are relied upon by the nuclear criticality safety analysis. • Information Notice 1997-77, “Exemptions from the Requirements of Section 70.24 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations,” dated October 10, 1997 (Ref. 13), provides the Commission’s position on review of exemptions to 10 CFR 70.24. • Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DSS-ISG-2010-01, “Staff Guidance Regarding the Nuclear Criticality Safety Analysis for Spent Fuel Pools,” (Ref 14). Issued in 2011, this ISG provided guidance to the NRC staff to support the review of methods for performing criticality analyses submitted for demonstrating compliance with 10 CFR 50.68. Purpose of Regulatory Guides The NRC issues RGs to describe to the public methods that the staff considers acceptable for use in implementing specific parts of the agency’s regulations, to explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated events, and to provide guidance to applicants. Regulatory guides are not substitutes for regulations, and compliance with them is not required. Methods and solutions that differ from those set forth in RGs will be deemed acceptable if they provide a basis for the findings required for the issuance or continuance of a permit or license by the Commission. Paperwork Reduction Act This RG provides voluntary guidance for implementing the mandatory information collections in 10 CFR Parts 50 and 52 that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.). These information collections were approved by the Office of