Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 74c49394-8dbf-46e7-b62a-b85de93b47d8
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Initial Test Programs for Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 11/2012 – DG-1259 , Proposed Revision 4 11/2006 – DG-1166 , Proposed Revision 3 (Rev. 4)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1229/ML12298A071.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.68
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al Testing Phase,” (Ref. 36), Appendix B, “Light Water Reactor Operational Preparedness Phase,” (Ref. 37), IMC 2514, “Light Water Reactor Inspection Program – Startup Testing Phase,” (Ref. 38), and IMC 2514, Appendix A, “Startup Test Program Inspection Procedures,” (Ref. 39) The NRC inspectors will inspect the licensee’s ITP (i.e., preoperational, fuel loading, initial criticality, lower power and power ascension tests), as described in the FSAR, to determine if the ITP is adequately implemented and whether test results demonstrate that the plant, procedures, and personnel are ready for safe operation. The inspections will focus on the manner in which the licensee fulfilled FSAR commitments, NRC license conditions and regulations related to the ITP, and implemented ITP procedures used to adequately demonstrate completion of ITP test results. For new plants licensed in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Part 52 the NRC will implement construction inspection programs and conduct inspections of ITPs beginning before preoperational testing and continuing through fuel loading, initial criticality, startup, low power and power ascension testing. The NRC inspectors will verify that the COL meets the requirements in 10 CFR 52.79(a)(28) and 50.43(e). The ITAACs incorporated into a 10 CFR Part 52 COL are the specific preapproved set of verifications that licensees must meet before fuel load. The NRC staff’s inspections are intended to determine, on a risk-informed sample basis, whether the licensee’s ITPs, as described in the FSAR, are adequately implemented, and whether the test results demonstrate that the plant, procedures, and personnel are ready for safe operation. Toward that end, the inspections focus on the manner in which the licensee has fulfilled its commitments to ensure that adequate programs have been developed and carried out, as exemplified by the methods used to establish procedures and the results those methods have produced.