Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 96ecfd93-e64a-4f35-93fe-d3b95daac61d
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY –HISTORY 06/2018 – DG-1336 , Proposed Revision 4 09/2011 – DG-1278 , Proposed Revision 3 08/1996 – DG-1051 , Proposed Revision 2 06/1994 – DG-1031, Proposed Revision 1 11/1992 – DG-1020, Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 4)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1812/ML18129A080.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.160
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ple and the environment. IAEA safety guides present international good practices and increasingly reflects best practices to help users striving to achieve high levels of safety. Pertinent to this RG, IAEA Safety Guide NS-G-2.6, “Maintenance, Surveillance, and In-service Inspection in Nuclear Power Plants” (Ref. 15), issued October 2002, provides guidance and recommendations on maintenance, surveillance and in-service inspection activities to ensure that safety related SSCs are available to perform as designed. This RG incorporates a similar philosophy to maintenance of nuclear power plants in the United States, and its guidance is consistent with the basic safety principles provided in IAEA Safety Guide NS-G-2.6. Documents Discussed in Staff Regulatory Guidance This RG endorses, with clarifications, the use of one or more codes, standards, and other third party guidance documents developed by external organizations. 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 a RG as an acceptable approach for 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 a 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