Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: f01d709b-086b-4bc7-9dc5-ed791695faa4
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Use of Plant Parameter Envelope In Early Site Permit Applications for Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 06/2021 – DG-4029 , Proposed Revision 0
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 4
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2104/ML21049A181.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-05
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Section ID: RG-4.27
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he following guidance for developing values or ranges for specific review criteria to be included in the PPE: • RG 1.206, “Applications for Nuclear Power Plants,” includes information related to PPEs, particularly in Section C.1.2, “Safety Analysis Report” (Ref. 10). • NUREG-0800, “Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition,” (Ref. 11): o NUREG-0800, Chapter 2, “Site Characteristics and Site Parameters,” provides guidance to the NRC staff for review of site characteristics where a PPE may be used in place of design-specific information (e.g., to calculate offsite dose). o NUREG-0800, Chapter 11, “Radioactive Waste Management,” includes information important for the estimation of PPE source term and consequent doses. DG-4029, Page-6 • NUREG-1555, “Standard Review Plans for Environmental Reviews for Nuclear Power Plants: Environmental Standard Review Plan (with Supplement 1 for Operating Reactor License Renewal),” (Ref. 12), provides guidance to the NRC staff for environmental reviews for nuclear power plants. Appendix A to this RG is based on NUREG-1555. Use it in conjunction with NUREG-1555 for review of an Environmental Report submitted as part of an ESP for a PPE. • RG 4.2, “Preparation of Environmental Reports for Nuclear Power Stations,” should be used for developing ERs for ESPs that use a PPE and for COLs that reference an ESP (Ref. 13). o The ESP application should include sufficient information for the staff to determine what the environmental impacts of constructing and operating nuclear power plant(s) could be. For an ESP application employing the PPE approach, site characteristics, PPE values, and analyses will comprise the ESP bases that will be the focus for comparison during a COL review with the design of the actual plant to be constructed on the site. Site-specific parameters (such as | meteorology, demographics, and hydrology) should be provided in any ESP