Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 43b9de94-a140-4f44-8c19-0129bc5e24b5
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: 02/1989
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003740047.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.158
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A. INTRODUCTION The Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Part 50, "Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities," require that structures, systems, and com ponents important to safety in a nuclear power plant be designed to accommodate the effects of environ mental conditions and that design control measures such as testing be used to check the adequacy of design. These general requirements are contained in General Design Criteria 1, 2, 4, and 23 of Appendix A, "General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants," to Part 50; and in Criterion III, "Design Control," and Criterion XVII, "Quality Assurance Records," of Appendix B, "Quality Assurance Crite ria for Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants," to Part 50. This regulatory guide describes a method accept able to the NRC staff for complying with Commis sion regulations with regard to qualification of safety related lead storage batteries for nuclear power plants. The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards has been consulted concerning this guide and has concurred in the regulatory position. Any information collection activities mentioned in this regulatory guide are contained as requirements in 10 CFR Part 50, which provides the regulatory ba sis for this guide. The information collection require ments in 10 CFR Part 50 have been cleared under OMB Clearance No. 3150-0011. USNRC REGULATORY GUIDES Regulatory Guides are issued to describe and make available to the pub lic methods acceptable to the NRC staff of implementing specific parts of the Commission's regulations, to delineate techniques used by the staff in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, or to pro vide guidance to applicants. Regulatory Guides are not substitutes for regulations, and compliance with them is not required, Methods and solutions different from those set out in the guides will be acceptable If they provide a basis for the findings requisite to the issuance or continu ance of a permit or license by