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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sed to process, store, and release (or control the release of) liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes. This testing should demonstrate, to the extent practical, that the pumps, tanks, controls, valves, and other equipment (including automatic isolation and protective features and instrumentation and alarms) will operate and function in accordance with design. As a prerequisite to testing, steps should be taken to confirm that the proper types and amounts of filtration and adsorption media are present in processing equipment. This should be done to help ensure that system performance characteristics, expressed as removal efficiencies, decontamination factors, and hold up times, conform to the design basis. The testing should be designed to demonstrate compliance with liquid and gaseous effluent concentration limits of Appendix B , “Annual Limits on Intake (ALIs) and Derived Air Concentrations (DACs) of Radionuclides for Occupational Exposure; Effluent Concentrations; Concentrations for Release to Sewage,” to 10 CFR Part 20, “Standards for Protection against Radiation,” (Ref. 28) and design objectives of Appendix I, “Numerical Guides for Design Objectives and Limiting Conditions for Operation to Meet the Criterion ‘As Low as Is Reasonably Achievable’ for Radioactive Material in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactor Effluents,” to 10 CFR Part 50. Appendix A to DG-1259, Page A-16 Testing or calculations should include, as appropriate, verification of tank volumes, capacities, holdup times, and proper operation and calibration of associated instrumentation. Testing should also confirm the operation of local and remote alarm functions, including radioactivity or radiation levels above established set-points and tank content levels. Radioactive samples, appropriately spiked media with known quantities of radioactivity or appropriate types of radioactive sources, should be used for the given type of radiation detection method to verify operability