Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: edf4b0e7-a6b1-4168-a057-45a70ca5524d
Document Type: srp
Title: ADEQUACY OF DESIGN FEATURES AND FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1227/ML12276A112.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 19
Section ID: 19.5
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he applicant’s description of the location of equipment credited for spent fuel pool cooling, including necessary support systems, the Staff reviewer shall confirm that design features or functional capabilities have been identified that protect these locations. Based on the applicant’s descriptions of design features or functional capabilities, the Staff reviewer shall confirm that they satisfy review procedures III.5, 19.5-9 Revision 0 – April 2013 III.7, III.8, and III.9 of this SRP. The Staff reviewer shall ensure that the applicant has addressed all potential impact locations around the perimeter of the structure housing the protected spent fuel pool cooling design features. The Staff reviewer shall confirm that equipment credited for spent fuel pool cooling is not attached to the walls or ceiling of any structure credited as a protective barrier. The adequacy of the design features in protecting equipment from structural and shock damage should not be evaluated by the Staff reviewer. The adequacy of the design features to fulfill these protective functions is subject to Staff inspection. Review of the Use of Reduced Operator Action In regards to meeting review procedure III.3, Staff reviewers should be cognizant of the fact that the designer need not achieve the absolute minimum in operator action. The NRC recognizes that there may be countervailing considerations that weigh against reducing to the absolute minimum the use of operator action to show that the acceptance criteria in the AIA rule are met. The designer shall identify and consider in a reasonable process the goal of incorporating design features and functional capabilities which achieve the acceptance criteria in paragraph (a)(1)(i) and (ii) of 10 CFR 50.150 with reduced use of operator action. For review of a standard design certification, standard design approval, or manufacturing license application, the reviewer should follow the above procedures to verify that the design set forth in the