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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provides an input routinely for areas of review of this SRP section. The primary reviewer uses such input as required to complete this review procedure. 1. The SAR is reviewed to determine whether the design bases and facility description section indicate the storage capacity of the design. The minimum storage capacity in the spent fuel storage pool should equal or exceed the amount of spent fuel from five years of operation at full power plus one full-core discharge. Due to insufficient away-from-reactor storage capacity, the industry trend has been to use high-density storage racks. The reviewer evaluates high-density storage case by case. Low-density storage should be used, at a minimum, for the most recently discharged fuel to enhance the capability to cool it. 2. The SAR information on the facility design criteria, safety evaluation, system description, and layout drawings for the new fuel vault, spent fuel pool, the containing building, and the new and spent fuel storage racks is reviewed to verify whether: A. The new fuel vault, new fuel storage racks, spent fuel storage racks, pool, and pool liner are capable of withstanding all design loads. This review is coordinated, as necessary, with the primary reviewer for SRP Section 3.8.4. B. The new and spent fuel storage racks are designed so a fuel assembly can be inserted only in a design location. The design also should prevent placement of fuel assemblies in the adjacent regions external to the racks. C. Nonsafety-related SSCs not designed to seismic Category I standards located in the vicinity of the new and spent fuel storage facilities are reviewed for whether their failure would cause an increase in Keff to more than the maximum allowable. The SAR description section, the general arrangement and layout drawings, and the tabulation of seismic design classifications for structures and systems are reviewed for whether this condition is met. An SAR statement establishing this condition as a design criterion is