Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 2ae3a605-e253-483d-89b9-e3f663861708
Document Type: srp
Title: APPLICABLE CODE CASES
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1422/ML14227A659.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 5
Section ID: 5.2.1.2
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titute for the NRC’s regulations, and compliance with it is not required. However, an applicant is required to identify differences between the design features, analytical techniques, and procedural measures proposed for its facility and the SRP acceptance criteria 5.2.1.2-4 Draft Revision 4 - August 2015 and evaluate how the proposed alternatives to the SRP acceptance criteria provide acceptable methods of compliance with the NRC regulations. 1. 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 1 requires that SSCs be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety function to be performed. For those SSCs defined as safety-related or risk-significant, the NRC regulations specify special treatment requirements to provide reasonable assurance of the capability of those SSCs to perform their safety-related functions. One special treatment requirement is that applicable components meet the requirements in the ASME BPV Code and ASME OM Code as incorporated by reference in 10 CFR 50.55a. ASME Code Cases provide alternatives to specific requirements in the ASME BPV Code and ASME OM Code. The NRC staff considers ASME Code Cases to satisfy the requirements in 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 1 to design, fabricate, erect, and test components to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety function to be performed, where those Code Cases have been accepted by the NRC staff. Where risk insights will be applied in the review of an application, the applicable technical branch will evaluate whether the provisions in the applicant’s submitted documentation are acceptable to provide reasonable assurance in the capability of SSCs to perform their intended functions. 2. Regulations in 10 CFR 50.55a require that components of the reactor coolant pressure boundary be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested in accordance with the requirements for Class 1 components of Section III of the ASME BPV Code and OM Code as