Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: b143ccef-ed08-482d-bc4b-b4e012328090
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1523/ML15233A056.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.206
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ace plant location after fuel load. Construction also includes the “onsite, in-place” fabrication, erection, integration, or testing activities for any in-scope SSC. The terms “onsite, in place, fabrication, erection, integration, or testing” are intended to describe the historical process of constructing a nuclear power plant in its final, onsite plant location, where components or modules are integrated into the final, in-plant location. The definition is intended to prevent persons from having to obtain a COL, LWA, or ESP authorizing LWA activities to fabricate, assemble, and test components and modules in a shop building, warehouse, or laydown area, even if located onsite. However, the installation or integration of that SSC into its final plant location would require a COL, LWA, or ESP authorizing LWA activities. Finally, construction does not include manufacturing a nuclear power reactor under Subpart F, “Manufacturing Licenses,” of 10 CFR Part 52, even if the manufacturing is accomplished onsite, so long as the manufacturing is not done in place, at the final (permanent) plant location on the site. Construction includes driving piles for SSCs that are described in the definition. Hence, an applicant must obtain permission from the NRC in the form of a COL, LWA, or ESP authorizing LWA activities to drive piles for such SSCs. However, driving piles that do not ensure the structural stability or integrity of an SSC within the scope of the definition of “construction” (e.g., piles driven to support the erection of a bridge for a temporary or permanent access road) would not be considered “construction” DG-1325, Page-115 under this section; therefore, those piles may be driven without a COL, LWA, or ESP authorizing LWA activities. In the LWA rule, the scope of SSCs falling within the definition of construction was derived from the scope of SSCs that are included in the program for monitoring the effectiveness of maintenance at nuclear power