Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: db0c5d18-2d27-4720-8935-40b402e52f9a
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Guidance for a Technology-Inclusive, Risk-Informed, and Performance-Based Methodology to Inform the Licensing Basis and Content of Applications for Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Non-Light Water Reactors + HISTORY - HISTORY 05/2019 – Issued DG-1353 , Proposed Revision 0
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1831/ML18312A242.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.233
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on, operating licenses, combined license, or other action. Efforts to standardize the format and content of applications for LWRs are reflected in RG 1.70, issued in the 1970s, and RG 1.206, issued in 2007 and revised in 2018. Guidance documents, such as NUREG-0800 and numerous other documents on specific technical areas, address the suggested scope and level of detail for applications. The NRC’s advanced reactor policy statement states the following: To provide for more timely and effective regulation of advanced reactors, the Commission encourages the earliest possible interaction of applicants, vendors, other government agencies, and the NRC to provide for early identification of regulatory requirements for advanced reactors and to provide all interested parties, including the public, with a timely, independent assessment of the safety and security characteristics of advanced reactor designs. Such licensing interaction and guidance early in the design process will contribute towards minimizing complexity and adding stability and predictability in the licensing and regulation of advanced reactors. The NRC has interacted with advanced reactor developers, DOE, national laboratories, and other stakeholders to improve the licensing process for non-LWRs. These interactions have resulted in publications such as NUREG-1226, “Development and Utilization of the NRC Policy Statement on the Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants” (Ref. 19); NUREG-1338; and NUREG-1368. As directed in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the NRC and DOE prepared and issued the “Next Generation Nuclear Plant Licensing Strategy: A Report to Congress,” in August 2008 (Ref. 20). The Next Generation Nuclear Plant Program included numerous interactions, submittals, and NRC staff responses on key licensing issues influencing the design and content of applications for high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors. In 2013, the NRC, in coordination with DOE, began work on the initiative to develop