Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 7a56bfb8-74a8-4e94-beee-41e3e51e0cc2
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Wide-Range Spent Fuel Pool Level Instrumentation + HISTORY - HISTORY 11/2015 – DG-1317 , Proposed Revision 0
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1424/ML14245A454.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.227
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staff requirements memorandum (SRM) for SECY-11-0093 to identify any actions that could, and in the staff’s judgment should, be taken in the near term given consideration to the wide range of tools available. The staff’s response to this Commission direction is contained in SECY-11-0124, “Recommended Actions to be Taken without Delay from the Near-Term Task Force Report,” dated September 9, 2011(Ref. 11). Further, in SRM-SECY-11-0093, the Commission directed that all the regulatory actions in the NTTF report should be prioritized, and SECY-11-0137, “Prioritization of Recommended Actions to be Taken in Response to Fukushima Lessons Learned,” dated October 3, 2012 (Ref. 12) provides the staff’s response to this direction. As discussed in the SRM for SECY-12-0025, “Proposed Orders and Requests for Information in Response to Lessons Learned from Japan’s March 11, 2011, Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami” (Ref. 13), dated March 9, 2012, the Commission determined that the additional requirements in Order EA-12-051 represent “…a significant enhancement to the protection of public health and safety and is an appropriate response to the insights from the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident.” The Commission decided that it did not have sufficient information at the time to complete a full backfit analysis of the wide-range spent fuel pool level instrumentation that would be required by the Order. Therefore, the Commission DG-1317, Page 4 decided to administratively exempt this Order from applicable provisions of 10 CFR 50.109, “Backfitting” and the issue finality requirements in 10 CFR Part 52, “Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.” (Ref. 14) Numerous public meetings (Ref. 15) were held to receive stakeholder input on the NTTF recommendation associated with enhanced SFP instrumentation both before and after the issuance of Order EA-12-051. On May 31, 2012, the NEI submitted NEI 12-02, Revision B (Ref. 16) for review by