Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 55b1f520-7682-43fa-a5c3-254f661dcc82
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Nondestructive Examination of Tubular Products
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1306/ML13064A108.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.66
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tandard defects in a referenue 2Copies may be obtained from American Society for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphiai. Pennsylvania 19103. USAEC REGULATORY GUIDES Copies of published guides may be obtained by request indicating the divisions desired to the US. Atomic Energy Commission. Washington. D.C. 20545, Regulatory Guides are issued to describe and make available to the public Attention: Director of Regulatory Standards. Comments and suggestions for methods acceptable to the AEC Regulatory staff of implementing specific parts of improvemnnts in these guides ae encouraged and should be sent to the Secretary Tommission's regulations, to delineate techniques used by the staff in of the Commission. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Washington. D.C. 20545. uing specific problems or postulated accidents, or to provide guidance to Attention: Chief. Public Proceedings Staff. ,,,;nts. Regulatory Guides are not substitutes for regulations and compliance -;th them is not required. Methods and solutions different from those set out in The guides are issued in the following ten broad divisions: the guides will be accepltable if they provide a basis for the findings requisite to the issuance or continuance of a permit or license by the Commission. 1. Power Reactors 6. Products 2. Research and Test Reactors 7. Transportation 3. Fuels and Materials Facilities 8. Occupational Health Published guides wilt be revised periodically, as appropriate. to accommodate 4. Environmental and Siting 9. Antitrust Review comments and to reflect new information or experience. . Materials and Plant Protect-or, 10. General specimen. The ASME Code requires that standard defects be axial notches on the inside and outside of the reference specimen, for which optimum resolution is developed tb, scanning in the transverse (circumferential) tdieclittor. l lowevet, transversw scanning is not ideal for resolving defects oriented in other directions. As a consequence, when pipe or tubing