Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 988a555f-fdfa-4452-829d-c06654bfbba5
Document Type: srp
Title: Initial Plant Test Program - Design Certification and New License Applicants
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0706/ML070660618.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 14
Section ID: 14.2
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Subpart B of 10 CFR Part 52, so that this information can be used as guidance for review of new design certification applications. The NRC staff developed guidance for implementing inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance criteria (ITAAC) and other design certification issues as part of its review of the Advanced Boiling-Water Reactor (ABWR) and System 80+ designs (evolutionary designs). Where applicable, the guidance has been updated to reflect Appendix D to Part 52 - Design Certification Rule for the AP1000 Design I. Background - Design Certification Design certification is a process whereby standard designs are approved by rulemaking. The resulting design certification rule is added to 10 CFR 52 as an appendix. Each appendix incorporates by reference a design control document (DCD) that contains the design information. An applicant for design certification is required to submit a DCD to the NRC for review and approval. A combined license applicant or licensee who references a certified design should comply with both the rule certifying the design and the DCD. In 10 CFR 52.47(a), the applicant must provide a final safety analysis report, which is equivalent to the DCDs in the appendices to 10 CFR Part 52. The following terms were defined for the evolutionary design reviews: A. Generic design control document (generic DCD) means the document containing Tier 1 and Tier 2 information and generic technical specifications that is incorporated by reference into the design certification rules. This document is prepared by the applicant for design certification. B. Plant-specific DCD means the document, maintained by an applicant or licensee who references a design certification rule, consisting of the information in the generic DCD, as modified and supplemented by the plant-specific departures and exemptions made under the change process in the design certification rule. C. Tier 1- means the portion of the design-related information contained in the generic DCD that