Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 30e6fa68-c7c1-4266-ba45-e06d1bbc07a0
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Criteria for Accident Monitoring Instrumentation for Nuclear Power Plants (Rev. 5)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1708/ML17083A134.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.97
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE DG-1335 Proposed Revision 5 to Regulatory Guide RG 1.97 Issue Date: December 2017 Technical Lead: Pong C. Chung This RG is being issued in draft form to involve the public in the development of regulatory guidance in this area. It has not received final staff review or approval and does not represent an NRC final staff position. Public comments are being solicited on this DG and its associated regulatory analysis. Comments should be accompanied by appropriate supporting data. Comments may be submitted through the Federal rulemaking Web site, http://www.regulations.gov, by searching for draft regulatory guide DG-1335. Alternatively, comments may be submitted to the Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Comments must be submitted by the date indicated in the Federal Register notice. Electronic copies of this DG, previous versions of this guide, and other recently issued guides are available through the NRC’s public Web site under the Regulatory Guides document collection of the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg- guides/. The DG is also available through the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession No. ML17083A134. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML17083A133. CRITERIA FOR ACCIDENT MONITORING INSTRUMENTATION FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS A. INTRODUCTION Purpose This regulatory guide (RG) describes an approach that is acceptable to the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to meet regulatory requirements for instrumentation to monitor accidents in nuclear power plants. It endorses, with clarifications, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 497-2016, “IEEE Standard Criteria for Accident Monitoring Instrumentation for