Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 28bfa464-f1cc-4f82-9b3c-4cfbe773e040
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Fresh and Spent Fuel Pool Criticality Analysis + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2020 – DG-1373 , Proposed Revision 0
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2018/ML20182A788.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.240
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tions in a manner that constitutes forward fitting as that term is defined and described in Management Directive 8.4. If a licensee believes that the NRC is using this RG in a manner inconsistent with the discussion in this Implementation section, then the licensee may file a backfitting or forward fitting appeal with the NRC in accordance with the process in Management Directive 8.4. DG-1373, Page 11 REFERENCES2 1. Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI 12-16, “Guidance for Performing Criticality Analyses of Fuel Storage at Light-Water Reactor Power Plants,” Revision 4, Washington, DC (ADAMS Accession No. ML19269E069). 2. U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), “Domestic licensing of production and utilization facilities,” Part 50, Chapter 1, Title 10, “Energy.” 3. CFR, “Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants,” Part 52, Chapter 1, Title 10, “Energy.” 4. 10 CFR Part 50, “Domestic licensing of production and utilization facilities,” Appendix A, “General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,” General Design Criterion (GDC) 62, “Prevention of criticality in fuel storage and handling.” 5. CFR, “Domestic licensing of special nuclear material,” Part 70, Chapter 1, Title 10, “Energy.” 6. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), NUREG-1475, “Applying Statistics,” Revision 1, Washington, DC, March 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11102A076) 7. NRC, NUREG/CR-7108, “An Approach for Validating Actinide and Fission Product Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analyses—Isotopic Composition Predictions,” ORNL/TM-2011/509, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Washington, DC, April 2012. (ADAMS Accession No. ML12116A124) 8. NRC, NUREG/CR-6683, “A Critical Review of the Practice of Equating the Reactivity of Spent Fuel to Fresh Fuel in Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analyses for PWR Spent Fuel Pool Storage,” ORNL/TM-2000/230, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Washington, DC, September 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML003751298)