Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: ae72d1f2-aba4-4afd-bf00-6a4263c3f3e9
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Control of Heavy Loads at Nuclear Facilities
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2100/ML21006A335.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-05
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Section ID: RG-1.244
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________ DG - 1381, Page 2 of 16 • 10 CFR 50.34, “Contents of application; technical information,” requires, in part, that power reactor license applicants include in the safety analysis report: the design of the facility (including the principle design criteria, the design bases, and the relationship of the design bases to the principle design criteria); a description and analysis of auxiliary and fuel handling systems insofar as they are pertinent to showing that safety functions will be accomplished, and a description of plans for conduct of normal operations, including maintenance, surveillance, and periodic testing of SSCs. The description shall be sufficient to permit understanding of the system designs and their relationship to safety evaluations. • Appendix A, “General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,” to 10 CFR Part 50 establishes minimum requirements for the principal design criteria for nuclear power plants. The general design criteria (GDC) in 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, applicable to this RG include the following: o GDC 1, “Quality standards and records,” requires structures, systems, and components (SSCs) important to safety be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety functions to be performed. Where generally recognized codes and standards are used, they shall be identified and evaluated to determine their applicability, adequacy, and sufficiency and shall be supplemented or modified as necessary to assure a quality product in keeping with the required safety function. o GDC 2, “Design bases for protection against natural phenomena,” requires that SSCs important to safety be designed to withstand the effects of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, with appropriate consideration in the design basis of (1) the most severe natural phenomena historically reported, (2) combinations of normal and accident conditions with the effects of the natural phenomena,