Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 74c49394-8dbf-46e7-b62a-b85de93b47d8
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Initial Test Programs for Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 11/2012 – DG-1259 , Proposed Revision 4 11/2006 – DG-1166 , Proposed Revision 3 (Rev. 4)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1229/ML12298A071.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.68
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ion, it is important to consider the staffing effects that could result from overlapping ITPs at multiunit sites. 4. Formulate administrative controls to govern the development and conduct of the ITP, including controls that will (a) provide for orderly turnover of plant systems and components from construction personnel or other preliminary checkout groups to the preoperational testing group and (b) ensure that general prerequisites (such as completion of construction, construction or preliminary tests, and inspections) will be satisfied before preoperational and/or startup tests of individual systems or components. 5. Establish early plans for using available information about operating experience, including reportable occurrences from other operating power reactors. This is important in developing and conducting the test program to help minimize recurrence of significant problems that could have been avoided by more comprehensive testing. DG-1259, Page 6 If the facility is using first-of-a-kind (FOAK) SSCs that are new, unique, or special design feature in the facility, then the in-plant functional testing requirements needed to verify their performance should be identified at an early date to permit the test requirements to be appropriately accounted for in the final test design. For example, some new plant designs licensed under 10 CFR Part 52 have new passive plant design features and FOAK tests for systems that are safety-related or important to safety. Consequently, each new DC, SD, ML, COL, or OL applicant for an advanced plant should identify new FOAK tests in the given plant. For DC and COL applicants, the NRC will verify that applicable FOAK tests proposed by the applicant are included in the ITP. A “Prototype Plant,” as used in this regulatory guide, is a nuclear reactor used to test design features, such as the testing required under 10 CFR 50.43(e). The prototype plant is similar to a FOAK or standard plant design in all features and size but may