Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 8e45dce1-e1e7-4415-b1dd-7e2a610e545b
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Fire Protection for Nuclear Power Plants (Rev. 4)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2023/ML20231A835.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.189
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y guidance document NEI 02-03, “Guidance for Performing a Regulatory Review of Proposed Changes to the Approved Fire Protection Program,” Revision 0, issued June 2003 (Ref. 48), can provide useful guidance for performing change evaluations in accordance with the plant’s fire protection licensing condition and approved FPP. However, the NRC has not endorsed NEI 02-03. 1.8.1.1 Nonstandard License Condition If the FPP committed to by the licensee is required by a specific license condition and is not part of the FSAR for the facility, then the NRC may require the licensee to submit amendment requests even for relatively minor changes to the FPP. 1.8.1.2 Standard License Condition The NRC transmitted the standard license condition for fire protection to licensees in April 1986 as part of GL 86-10, with information on its applicability to specific plants. GL 88-12 provides additional guidance to implement the standard license condition and remove the technical specifications associated with fire detection and suppression, fire barriers, and fire brigade staffing. Within the context of the standard fire protection license condition, the phrase “not adversely affect the ability to achieve and maintain safe shutdown in the event of a fire” means to maintain sufficient safety margins. An acceptable set of guidelines for making that assessment is summarized below. Other equivalent acceptance guidelines may also be used. With sufficient safety margins, the following applies: a. Codes and standards or their alternatives approved for use by the NRC are met. b. Safety analysis acceptance criteria in the licensing basis are met, or proposed revisions provide sufficient margin to account for analysis and data uncertainty. Licensees can maintain applicable safety margins by relating item (a) above specifically to: changes to the FPP under the standard license condition; changes that maintain compliance with the applicable NFPA codes and standards endorsed by the NRC;