Document: 10 CFR Part 50
Document ID: 0ebe3aff-d98d-4f40-bd30-eac2413b94f3
Document Type: cfr
Title: Technical specifications on effluents from nuclear power reactors.
Source: 10 CFR Part 50
Source URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/part-50/section-50.36a
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Section ID: 50.36a
CFR Part: 50
CFR Title: 10

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these reports and any additional information the Commission may obtain from the licensee or others, the Commission may require the licensee to take action as the Commission deems appropriate. ( b ) In establishing and implementing the operating procedures described in paragraph (a) of this section, the licensee shall be guided by the following considerations: Experience with the design, construction, and operation of nuclear power reactors indicates that compliance with the technical specifications described in this section will keep average annual releases of radioactive material in effluents and their resultant committed effective dose equivalents at small percentages of the dose limits specified in § 20.1301 and in the license. At the same time, the licensee is permitted the flexibility of operation, compatible with considerations of health and safety, to assure that the public is provided a dependable source of power even under unusual conditions which may temporarily result in releases higher than such small percentages, but still within the limits specified in § 20.1301 of this chapter and in the license. It is expected that in using this flexibility under unusual conditions, the licensee will exert its best efforts to keep levels of radioactive material in effluents as low as is reasonably achievable. The guides set out in appendix I, provide numerical guidance on limiting conditions for operation for light-water cooled nuclear power reactors to meet the requirement that radioactive materials in effluents released to unrestricted areas be kept as low as is reasonably achievable. [ 61 FR 39299 , July 29, 1996, as amended at 72 FR 49493 , Aug. 28, 2007]