Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 6d95bc89-e14a-4d87-bf91-1d1760c2aff8
Document Type: srp
Title: FOUNDATIONS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1235/ML12353A388.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 3
Section ID: 3.8.5
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th GDC 1 requires that (1) SSCs important to safety be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to quality standards commensurate with the importance of their safety function, (2) a quality assurance program be established and implemented, and (3) sufficient and appropriate records be maintained. If generally recognized codes and standards are used, they should be identified and evaluated to determine their applicability, adequacy, and sufficiency and supplemented or modified as necessary to assure a quality product in keeping with the required safety function. SRP Section 3.8.5, which also refers to SRP Section 3.8.4, describes acceptable criteria related to static and dynamic loadings and evaluation programs for structures other than containment. It also describes acceptable materials, design methodology, quality control procedures, construction methods, and inservice inspections, as well as documentation criteria for design and construction controls. SRP Section 3.8.5, which also refers to SRP Section 3.8.4, cites ACI 349, ANSI/AISC N690-1994 including Supplement 2 (2004), and RGs to provide guidance describing design methodology, materials testing, and construction techniques that are commensurate with the importance of the safety function to be performed. Conformance with these requirements imposes specific restrictions to ensure that structures other than the containment will perform acceptably, commensurate with their intended safety function, when designed in accordance with the above standards. Meeting these requirements provides assurance that the foundations of structures other than containment described in this section will perform their intended safety function. 3.8.5-16 Draft Revision 4 - December 2012 3. Compliance with GDC 2 requires that the design of SSCs important to safety withstand the effects of expected natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, tsunami, and seiches, without losing the capability to perform their