Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 67130ae3-9621-4967-b1dc-79f9cbef13e1
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Pressurized-Water Reactor Control Rod Ejection and Boiling-Water Reactor Control Rod Drop Accidents + HISTORY - HISTORY 11/2016 – DG-1327 , Proposed Revision 0
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1612/ML16124A200.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.236
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION November 2016 OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Division 1 DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE Technical Lead Paul Clifford This regulatory guide is being issued in draft form to involve the public in the development of regulatory guidance in this area. It has not received final staff review or approval and does not represent an NRC final staff position. Public comments are being solicited on this draft guide and its associated regulatory analysis. Comments should be accompanied by appropriate supporting data. Comments may be submitted through the Federal rulemaking Web site, http://www.regulations.gov, by searching for Docket ID: NRC-2016-0233. Alternatively, comments may be submitted to the Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Comments must be submitted by the date indicated in the Federal Register notice. Electronic copies of this draft regulatory guide, previous versions of this guide, and other recently issued guides are available through the NRC’s public Web site under the Regulatory Guides document collection of the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc- collections/reg-guides/. The draft regulatory guide is also available through the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession No. ML16124A200. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16124A198. DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE DG-1327 (Proposed New Regulatory Guide) PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR CONTROL ROD EJECTION AND BOILING WATER REACTOR CONTROL ROD DROP ACCIDENTS A. INTRODUCTION Purpose This regulatory guide (RG) describes methods and procedures that the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) considers acceptable when analyzing a postulated control rod ejection (CRE) accident for pressurized-water reactors (PWRs) and a postulated control rod drop (CRD) accident