Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 44b58049-ac63-457b-a075-ef162b34cb70
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Materials code case Acceptability - - ASME Section III, Division 1 (Rev. 31)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003740365.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.85
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olant pressure boundary be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to the highest quality standards practical. Appendix B, "Quality Assurance Criteria for Nu clear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants," to 10 CFR Part 50 requires, in part, that measures be es tablished for the control of special processing of materi als and that proper testing be performed. This regulatory guide lists those Section III ASME Code Cases oriented to materials and testing that are generally acceptable to the NRC staff for implementa tion in the licensing of light-water-cooled nuclear pow er plants. This guide is being revised to update the NRC staff positions on new Code Cases, revised Code Cases, and annulled Code Cases subsequent to Revision 30 of the guide in October 1994. This regulatory guide contains no information collection activities and, therefore, is not subject to the USNRC REGULATORY GUIDES The guides are issued in the following ten broad divisions: Regulatory Guides are issued to describe and make availableto the public such informa tion as methods acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the Corn- 1. Power Reactors 6. Products mission's regulations, techniques usedbythestaff in evaluating specificproblemsorpos- 2. Research and Test Reactors 7. Transportation tulated accidents, and data needed by the NRC staff in its review of applications for per- 3. Fuels and Materials Facilities 8. Occupational Health mits and licenses. Regulatory guides are not substitutes for regulations, and compliance 4. Environmental and Siting 9. Antitrust and Financial Review with them is not required. Methods and solutions differentfrom those set out in theguides 5. Materials and Plant Protection 10. General will be acceptable if they provide a basis for the findings requisite to the issuance or con tinuance of a permit or license by the Commission. Singlecopies of regulatory guides may be obtained free of charge bywriting to the Repro This guide was issued after