Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 776b9130-d4de-4c44-81a6-ecd8c36df0ca
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Safety-Related Steel Structures and Steel-Plate Composite
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2033/ML20339A558.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-05
Chapter: 
Section ID: RG-1.243
CFR Part: 
CFR Title: 

Content:
of a permit or license by the Commission. Paperwork Reduction Act This RG provides voluntary guidance for implementing the mandatory information collections in 10 CFR Parts 50 and 52 that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), approval numbers 3150-0011 and 3150-0151. Send comments regarding this information collection to the FOIA, Information Services Branch (T6-A10M), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by e-mail to Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0011 and 3150-0151), Attn: Desk Officer for the Nuclear DG-1304. Page 4 Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503; e- mail: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Public Protection Notification The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the document requesting or requiring the collection displays a currently valid OMB control number. DG-1304. Page 5 B. DISCUSSION Reason for Issuance This guide provides updated regulatory guidance for the design, fabrication, and erection of safety-related steel structures and SC walls for other than reactor vessels and containments. This guide endorses, with exceptions and clarifications, the procedures and standards of the 2018 edition of American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) N690, “Specification for Safety-Related Steel Structures for Nuclear Facilities.” Background The NRC has used former editions of ANSI/AISC N690 for staff guidance. NUREG-0800 refers to ANSI/AISC N690-1994 (Ref. 13), including its Supplement 2 published in 2004 (Ref. 14), in Section 3.8.3, Revision 4, “Concrete and Steel Internal Structures of Steel or Concrete Containments,” and Section 3.8.4, Revision 4, “Other Seismic Category I