Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 3eb179d3-5491-407d-8b0e-eed083d58a17
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Configuration Management Plans for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2012 – DG-1206 , Proposed Revision 1 08/1996 – DG-1055 , Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1032/ML103200044.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.169
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ment Plans,” issued 2005 (Ref. 4), with the exceptions stated in the staff regulatory guidance. IEEE Std. 828-2005 describes methods acceptable to the NRC staff for use in complying with the NRC’s regulations for quality standards that promote high functional reliability and design quality in software used in safety systems.1 In particular, the methods are consistent with GDC 1 in Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 50 and the criteria for quality assurance programs in Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 as they apply to the maintenance and control of appropriate records of software development activities. The criteria of Appendices A and B apply to systems and related quality assurance processes, and the requirements also extend to software elements if those systems include software. The NRC issues regulatory guides to describe to the public methods that the staff considers acceptable for use in implementing specific parts of the agency’s regulations, to explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and to provide guidance to applicants, however regulatory guides are not substitutes for regulations and compliance with them is not required. The information provided by this regulatory guide is in the Standard Review Plan, NUREG- 0800, “Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition,” Chapter 7, “Instrumentation and Controls,” (Ref. 5). The NRC staff uses the NRC Standard Review Plan to review 10 CFR Part 50 and 10 CFR Part 52, “Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants,” (Ref. 6) license applications. This regulatory guide contains information collection requirements covered by 10 CFR Part 50 that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved under OMB control number 3150-0011. The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an information collection request or requirement unless the requesting