Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 74c49394-8dbf-46e7-b62a-b85de93b47d8
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Initial Test Programs for Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 11/2012 – DG-1259 , Proposed Revision 4 11/2006 – DG-1166 , Proposed Revision 3 (Rev. 4)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1229/ML12298A071.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.68
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fulfilled its commitments to ensure that adequate programs have been developed and carried out, as exemplified by the methods used to establish procedures and the results those methods have produced. For plants licensed under 10 CFR Part 52, NRC inspectors will inspect the overall preoperational test program and ITAAC as part of the construction program inspections included in IMC 2503 “Construction Inspection Program: Inspections of Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria (ITAAC) Related Work,” (Ref. 40) and IMC 2504, “Construction Inspection Program – Inspection of Construction and Operational Programs,” (Ref. 41). In most cases, licensees have testing requirements in ITAAC that may also be associated with the preoperational tests completed as part of the ITP. NRC inspectors will sample preoperational tests completed as part of the ITAAC through a risk-informed sampling process. The inspectors will verify that preoperational tests satisfy both the ITP and the ITAAC. The licensee should have copies of its test procedures available for examination by the NRC’s regional office personnel approximately 60 days before the scheduled preoperational tests, and copies of procedures for fuel loading, initial criticality, initial startup testing, and supporting activities not less than 60 days before the scheduled fuel loading date. Examination by NRC personnel does not constitute Appendix B to DG-1259, Page B-2 approval of the procedures. The possession of such procedures by NRC personnel should not impede the revision, review, and refinement of the procedures by the licensee. The inspections by NRC personnel generally include the following activities: 1. Examine the methods being used to prepare, review, and approve procedures; control test performance; record, evaluate, review, approve, and retain test data and results; and identify and correct deficiencies noted in systems and procedures. For the most part, this examination will be carried out