Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 4f89f9c8-f051-474b-8452-e8836e97c35c
Document Type: srp
Title: APPLICABLE CODE CASES
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070442.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 5
Section ID: 5.2.1.2
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ified components must meet specific criteria that have been reviewed and accepted by the staff. 24 The ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee adopts Code Cases that provide additions, revisions and clarifications of existing Code requirements, or when urgently needed, provides rules for construction not covered by existing requirements.25 The staff endorses the application of Code Cases that provide adequate assurance that these structures, systems and components will perform acceptably, commensurate with the importance of their safety function and will contain radioactive material.26 B. Section 50.55a of 10 CFR requires that structures, systems, and components be designed, fabricated, erected, constructed, tested, and inspected to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety functions to be performed and that suitable optional Code Cases may be applied to such structures, systems, and components. SRP Section 5.2.1.2 cites Regulatory Guides 1.84, 1.85, and 1.147 (also cited in Footnote 6 of 10 CFR 50.55a) to provide a list of Code Cases for ASME Section III, Division 1, components and materials and Section XI, Division 1, tests and inspections that are acceptable to the staff. Code Cases for Section III, Division 2, and other Code Cases that may be proposed are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Under these Code Cases, components of the reactor coolant pressure boundary and other specified components must meet specific criteria that have been reviewed and accepted by the staff. The ASME Boiler 27 and Pressure Vessel Committee adopts Code Cases that provide additions, revisions and clarifications of existing Code requirements, or when urgently needed, provides rules for construction not covered by existing requirements.28 The staff endorses the application of Code Cases that provide adequate assurance that these structures, systems and components will perform acceptably, commensurate with the importance of their safety function and will contain