Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 99fe445b-c440-4921-ba8f-841c8f236046
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation for Earthquakes + HISTORY - HISTORY 09/2016 – DG-1332 , Proposed Revision 3 04/2015 – Periodic Review on Revision 2 – Revise 02/1995 – DG-1033, Third Proposed Revision 2 11/1992 – DG-1016, Second Proposed Revision 2 07/1981 – Draft MS 140-5 , First Proposed Revision 2 (Rev. 3)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1610/ML16104A220.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.12
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for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition” (Ref. 6) provides guidance to the NRC staff in their review of Safety Analysis Reports submitted as part of a license application. - Section 2.5.1 “Geologic Characterization Information,” provides guidance to the NRC staff on review of the geologic characteristics and tectonic setting of a given site. - Section 2.5.2 “Vibratory Ground Motion,” provides guidance to the NRC staff on review of vibratory ground motion likely to affect a given site. - Section 3.7.1 “Seismic Design Parameters,” provides guidance to the NRC staff for review of the affect that earthquake design ground motions might have on a given plant’s structures • RG 1.167, “Restart of a Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down by a Seismic Event” (Ref. 7), provides guidance for performing inspections and tests of nuclear power plant equipment and structures prior to restart of a plant that has been shut down by a seismic event. • RG 8.8, “Information Relevant to Ensuring that Occupational Radiation Exposures at Nuclear Power Stations will be as Low as is Reasonably Achievable” (Ref. 8), provides information relevant to attaining goals and objectives for planning, designing, constructing, operating, and decommissioning a light-water reactor (LWR) nuclear power station to meet the criterion that exposures of station personnel to radiation during routine operation of the station will be “as low as reasonably achievable” (ALARA). • RG 1.208, “A Performance-Based Approach to Define the Site-Specific Ground Motion Response Spectrum (GMRS)” (Ref. 9), provides guidance on the development of the site-specific ground motion response spectrum (GMRS). • RG 1.29, “Seismic Design Classification” (Ref. 10), provides guidance on identifying and classifying those features of light-water-reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants that must be designed to withstand the effects of the SSE. • American National Standards Institute /American Nuclear Society