Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 62485d6f-6b2a-4360-acb5-f874d2adc406
Document Type: srp
Title: PIPING SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS - INSPECTIONS, TESTS,
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1808/ML18088A069.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 14
Section ID: 14.3.3
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irements of the NRC’s regulations identified above are as follows for the review described in this SRP section. The SRP is not a substitute for the NRC’s regulations, and compliance with it is not required. However, an applicant should identify differences between the design features, analytical techniques, and procedural measures proposed for its facility and the SRP acceptance criteria, and evaluate how the proposed alternatives to the SRP acceptance criteria provide acceptable methods of compliance with the NRC regulations. 1 Generic Piping Design. DC applicants are required to provide an essentially complete nuclear power plant design except for site-specific elements. However, NRC practice has been to allow DC applicants to provide less than the complete design information in the DC application for piping design, with staff approval. In lieu of a complete piping design, applicants may provide the processes and design acceptance criteria (DAC) by which design details in this area would be developed and evaluated. Implementation of the processes is the responsibility of the COL applicant or licensee. DAC are discussed further in SRP Section 14.3, Appendix A. The reviewer should use the SRP guidelines to evaluate the piping design information in DCD Tier 1 and Tier 2 and review the piping design criteria in detail, including sample calculations. The staff should evaluate the adequacy of the structural integrity and functional capability of safety-related piping systems. The review is not limited to the ASME BPV Code Classes 1, 2, and 3 piping and supports, but includes buried piping, instrumentation lines, the interaction of non-Seismic Category I piping with Seismic Category I piping, and any safety-related piping designed to industry standards other than the ASME BPV Code. This review should include the analysis methods, design procedures, acceptance criteria, and related ITAAC (and DAC if applicable) that are to be used for the completion and verification