Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 18121933-6a1c-4874-965a-df10cae074e9
Document Type: srp
Title: NEW FUEL STORAGE
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070502.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.1.1
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hnical Rationale34 The technical rationale for application of these acceptance criteria to reviewing new fuel storage is discussed in the following paragraphs:35 1. Compliance with GDC 2 requires that nuclear power plant structures, systems, and components important to safety be designed to withstand the effects of natural phenomena such as earthquake, tornado, hurricane, flood, tsunami, and seiche without loss of capability to perform their safety functions. The function of the new fuel storage facility is to maintain new fuel in a subcritical array during all credible storage conditions. The requirements of GDC 2 are imposed to verify that the new fuel storage facility is designed to withstand the effects of earthquakes, thereby ensuring that the new fuel will be maintained in a subcritical array. Position C.1.l of Regulatory Guide 1.29 provides guidance acceptable to the staff for meeting these requirements. Meeting the requirements of GDC 2 provides assurance that new fuel will remain in a subcritical array during natural phenomena events.36 2. Compliance with GDC 5 requires that structures, systems, and components important to safety shall not be shared among nuclear power units unless it can be shown that such sharing will not significantly impair their ability to perform their safety functions, including, in the event of an accident in one unit, an orderly shutdown and cooldown of the remaining units. 9.1.1-5 DRAFT Rev. 3 - April 1996 The requirements of GDC 5 apply to this section because the reviewer determines whether the structures, systems, and components for new fuel storage facilities at multiple-unit sites are shared among the units. The reviewer then verifies that structures, systems, or components that are shared are designed in such a manner that an accident at one facility will not significantly impair the ability of the remaining facility to maintain the new fuel in a subcritical array. Meeting the requirements of GDC 5 provides assurance that a