Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 70415715-297f-4d60-841c-514b0372a131
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: 02/2017 (Rev. 5)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1608/ML16082A501.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.26
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION February 2017 OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Revision 5 REGULATORY GUIDE Technical Lead Tuan Le Written suggestions regarding this guide or development of new guides may be submitted 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/contactus.html. Electronic copies of this 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/. The 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 ADAMS Accession No. ML16082A501. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14356A247. No public comments were received on DG-1314. REGULATORY GUIDE 1.26 (Draft was issued as DG-1314, dated April 2015) QUALITY GROUP CLASSIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS FOR WATER-, STEAM-, AND RADIOACTIVE-WASTE-CONTAINING COMPONENTS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS A. INTRODUCTION Purpose This regulatory guide (RG) describes a quality classification system related to specified national standards that may be used to determine quality standards acceptable to the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for satisfying General Design Criterion (GDC) 1, “Quality Standards and Records,” as set forth in Appendix A, “General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,” to Title 10, Part 50, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 50), “Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities” (Ref. 1), for components containing water, steam, or radioactive material in light- water-cooled nuclear power plants. Applicability This RG applies to all holders of operating licenses for nuclear power reactors subject to the