Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 81395c8e-49df-441c-b98a-8ae655d174db
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Emergency Planning and Preparedness for Nuclear Power Reactors (Rev. 7)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2401/ML24019A202.pdf
Revision Date: 2025-03
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Section ID: RG-1.101
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ements, safety guides, and other relevant reports reflects an international perspective on what constitutes a high level of safety. To inform its development of this RG, the NRC considered IAEA Safety Requirements and Safety Guides pursuant to the Commission’s International Policy Statement (Ref. 27) and Management Directive and Handbook 6.6, “Regulatory Guides” (Ref. 28). The following IAEA Safety Requirements and Guides were considered in the update of the Regulatory Guide: IAEA Safety Standards Series, “Preparedness and Response for a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency, GSR Part 7,” published in November 2015 (Ref. 29). Documents Discussed in Staff Regulatory Guidance This RG endorses the use of one or more guidance documents developed by external organizations, and other third-party guidance documents. These codes, standards and third-party guidance documents may contain references to other codes, standards or third-party guidance documents (“secondary references”). If a secondary reference has itself been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations as a requirement, then licensees and applicants must comply with that standard as set forth in the regulation. If the secondary reference has been endorsed in an RG as an acceptable approach for DG-1423, Page 8 meeting an NRC requirement, then the standard constitutes a method acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting that regulatory requirement as described in the specific RG. If the secondary reference has neither been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations nor endorsed in an RG, then the secondary reference is neither a legally-binding requirement nor a “generic” NRC approved acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement. However, licensees and applicants may consider and use the information in the secondary reference, if appropriately justified, consistent with current regulatory practice, and consistent with applicable NRC requirements. DG-1423, Page 9 C. STAFF REGULATORY GUIDANCE