Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 0f097ac2-b7b1-437d-a055-1546a9094ef6
Document Type: srp
Title: CONCRETE CONTAINMENT
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1006/ML100620888.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 3
Section ID: 3.8.1
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lity assurance program be established and implemented, and that sufficient and appropriate records be maintained. Where generally recognized codes and standards are used, they should be identified and evaluated to determine their applicability, adequacy, and sufficiency and should be supplemented or modified as necessary to assure a quality product in keeping with the required safety function. SRP Section 3.8.1 provides guidance related to static and dynamic loadings and evaluation programs for concrete containments. It also describes acceptable materials, design methodology, quality control procedures, construction methods, and inservice inspections, as well as documentation criteria for design and construction controls. SRP Section 3.8.1 cites RG 1.136 for guidance regarding load combination equations and ASME Code, Section III, Division 2, Section CC, for design guidance and acceptance criteria. Meeting these requirements and criteria provide assurance that engineering analysis and design of concrete containments for nuclear power plants will comply with 10 CFR Part 50 and that concrete containments will perform their intended safety function to prevent or mitigate the spread of radioactive material. 2. Compliance with GDC 2 requires that SSCs important to safety be designed to withstand the effects of expected natural phenomena such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, tsunami, and seiches without loss of capability to perform their safety functions. The design bases for these SSCs should reflect appropriate combinations of the effects of normal and accident conditions with the effects of the natural phenomena. 3.8.1-20 Revision 3 - May 2010 To ensure that the containment of a nuclear power plant is designed to withstand natural phenomena, it is necessary to consider the most severe natural phenomena that have been historically reported with sufficient margin for the limited accuracy, quantity, and period of time in which the historical data have been