Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 7c104096-d040-463a-a94b-a0af08ab3478
Document Type: srp
Title: DYNAMIC TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES, AND
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0702/ML070230008.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 3
Section ID: 3.9.2
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with sound engineering practices and provide assurance that these systems and components are designed to withstand natural phenomena in combination with normal and accident conditions. Compliance with the requirements of GDC 2 provide assurance that systems and components within the scope of this SRP section are capable of performing their intended safety functions. 3. GDC 4 requires that the nuclear power plant systems and components important to safety be designed to accommodate the effects of and be compatible with the environmental conditions of normal operation, maintenance, testing, and postulated accidents, including LOCAs. Staff positions on design of systems and components to withstand the dynamic effects of LOCAs in combination with other normal and design basis loads are described in SRP Section 3.9.2. Testing to verify the ability of components and systems to withstand anticipated loads is also described. Compliance with the requirements of GDC 4 provide assurance that systems and components within the scope of this SRP section are capable of performing their intended safety functions. 4. GDC 14 requires that the RCPB be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to have an extremely low probability of abnormal leakage, rapidly propagating failure, or gross rupture. Staff positions described in SRP Section 3.9.2 address dynamic testing of components of the reactor coolant pressure boundary to ensure that they will withstand the applicable design-basis seismic and dynamic loads in combination with other environmental and natural phenomena loads without leakage, rapidly propagating failure, or gross rupture. Compliance with the requirements of GDC 14 provide assurance that the reactor coolant pressure boundary will have an extremely low probability of leakage or failure. 3.9.2-25 Revision 3 - March 2007 5. GDC 15 requires that the reactor coolant system be designed with sufficient margin to ensure that the design conditions of the reactor coolant pressure