Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 683c2eb1-8dd8-484a-a45d-437c101b525f
Document Type: srp
Title: NEW AND SPENT FUEL STORAGE
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0705/ML070550057.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.1.2
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the requirements of 10 CFR 20.1101(b), positions C.2.f(2) and C.2.f(6) of RG 8.8 are the bases for acceptance with respect to provisions for decontamination. For spent fuel storage, paragraph 5.1.5 of ANS 57.2 and appropriate positions of RG 1.13 are the bases for acceptance. For new fuel storage, paragraphs 6.3.3.7 and 6.3.4 of ANS 57.3 are the bases for acceptance. 7. 10 CFR 50.68 allows the applicant to follow the guidelines of 10 CFR 70.24 for criticality monitors or the guidelines described therein for significant margins of subcriticality. Technical Rationale The technical rationale for application of these acceptance criteria to the areas of review addressed by this SRP section is discussed in the following paragraphs: 1. GDC 2 requires that nuclear power plant SSCs important to safety be designed to withstand the effects of such natural phenomena as earthquake, tornado, hurricane, flood, tsunami, and seiche without loss of capability to perform their safety functions. The design of these SSCs also must reflect appropriate combinations of the effects of accidents and natural phenomena. The functions of the new and spent fuel storage facilities are to maintain new and spent fuel in a safe and subcritical array during all anticipated operating and accident conditions and to limit offsite exposures in the event of significant release of radioactive 9.1.2-6 Revision 4 - March 2007 materials from the fuel. The spent fuel storage facility also must keep spent fuel assemblies adequately cooled during all anticipated operating and accident conditions. GDC 2 requirements verify whether SSCs of the new and spent fuel storage facilities (e.g., the spent fuel pool, new and spent fuel storage racks, and pool liner) will withstand the effects of natural phenomena that might occur at the plant site. Designing the storage pool and fuel storage racks to meet seismic Category I requirements provides reasonable assurance that earthquakes will not cause a substantial coolant