Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 503ea0ef-6ca4-4230-99f2-c94521f9e62a
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Qualification Tests of Electric Cables, Field Splices, and Connections for Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003740128.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.131
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGULATORY GUIDE OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT REGULATORY GUIDE 1.131 QUALIFICATION TESTS OF ELECTRIC CABLES, FIELD SPLICES, AND CONNECTIONS FOR LIGHT-WATER-COOLED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS A. INTRODUCTION Criterion III, "Design Control," of Appendix B, "Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants," to 10 CFR Part 50, "Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities," requires that, where a test program is used to verify the adequacy of a specific design feature, it include suitable qualification testing of a prototype unit under the most adverse design condi tions. This regulatory guide describes a method ac ceptable to the NRC staff for complying with the Commission's regulations with regard to qualifica tion testing of electric cables, field splices, and con nections for service in light-water-cooled nuclear powe~r plants to ensure that the cables, field splices, and connections can perform their safety-related functions.' The fire test provisions of this guide do the Insulated Conductors Committee of the Power Engineering Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), approved by the IEEE Nuclear Power Engineering Committee, and subsequently approved by the IEEE Standards Board on February 28,1974. It was agooved as an ANSI standard, ANSI N41.10-1975 1hpril 30, 1975. The standard delineates proce e developing a program for qualificatio festingg cables, field splices, and connectioj• It plements IEEE Std 323-1974, "IEEE St; ioualifying Class IE Equipment for N aear , enerating Stations," which describe as' re ements for equipment qualification. I d'td 23-1974 is endorsed, with certain exoion'•f Regulatory Guide 1.89, "Qualificati' C s IEE Equipment for Nuclear PowerAtlntL not apply to quanttication for an installed contlgura- rtl' te-' IEEE Std 383-1974 was issued, tion. s ab atories and cable testing facilities ex r% c difficulty in producing a consistent