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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tention:' Docketing and Service acceptable to the NR q .of implementing specific parts of the Commission's Branch. r e g u l a t i o n s , to d e l i n~ e a t e N l u e s u s e d b y t h e s t a f f i n e v a l u a t i n g s p e c i f i c p r o b l e m sT h g u d s u e i u d i n t e f l o n g e n b a d i v i n or postulated accidents, or provide guidance to applicants. Regulatory Guides The guides e issued in the following ten broad divisions are not substitutes for regulations, and compliance with them is not required. 1. Power Reactors 6. Products Methods and solutions different from those set out in the guides will be accept- 2. Research and Test Reactors 7. Transportation able if they provide a basis for the findings requisite to the issuance or continuance 3. Fuels and Materials Facilities 8. Occupational Health of a permit or license by the Commission. 4. Environmental and Sitina o Anti , .. ... M Comments and suggestions for improvements in these guides are encouraged at all Materials and Plant Protection e times, and guides will be revised, as appropriate, to accommodate comments and Requests for single copies of issued guides which may be reproduced) or for place to reflect new information or experience. However, comments on this guide,if meet on an automatic distribution list for single copies of future guides in specific received within about two months after its issuance, will be particularly useful in divisions should be made in writing to the US. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, evaluating the need for an early revision. Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Document Control. August 1977 IEEE and NRC, and significant results will be incor porated in future revisions of this guide. The flame tests covered by Section 2.5 of the stan dard provide a test primarily of the self-extinguishing tendency of the cable insulation material. These tests are conducted with cables in a specific configuration and subjected to a defined fire source.