Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 3c238fa7-baa2-41c1-ac85-868fcda6b038
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Design Limits, Loading Combinations, Materials, Construction, and Testing of Concrete Containments + HISTORY – HISTORY 07/2020 – DG-1372 , Proposed Revision 4 05/2019 – Periodic Review of Revision 3 – Revise 10/2015 – Periodic Review of Revision 3 – Reviewed with issues identified for future consideration 10/2006 – DG-1159, Proposed Revision 3 Prior to the issuance of DG-1159, RG 1.136 was entitled "Materials, Construction, and Testing of Concrete Containments (Rev. 4)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2010/ML20105A215.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.136
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tions IWE and IWL (Ref. 3), as incorporated by reference and subject to conditions stated in this regulation. • Appendix A, “General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,” to 10 CFR Part 50, provides minimum requirements for the principal design criteria that establish the necessary design, fabrication, construction, testing, and performance requirements for structures, systems, and components (SSCs) important to safety to provide reasonable assurance that the facility can be operated without undue risk to the health and safety of the public. The general design criteria (GDC) applicable to this RG include the following: o GDC 1, “Quality Standards and Records,” requires, in part, that SSCs important to safety shall be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety functions to be performed. Where generally recognized codes and standards are used, they shall be identified and evaluated for applicability, adequacy, and sufficiency and shall be supplemented or modified as necessary to assure a quality product in keeping with the required safety function. o GDC 2, “Design Bases for Protection against Natural Phenomena,” requires, in part, that SSCs important to safety shall be designed to withstand the effects of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, tsunami, and seiches, with the appropriate combinations of the effects of normal and accident conditions with the effects of the natural phenomena without loss of capability to perform their safety function. o GDC 4, “Environmental and Dynamic Effects Design Bases,” requires, in part, that SSCs important to safety shall be designed to accommodate the effects of and to be compatible with the environmental conditions and dynamic effects (of missiles, pipe whipping, and discharging fluids) associated with normal operation, maintenance, testing, and postulated accidents, including loss-of-coolant accidents