Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 1859c547-c10c-4ce4-ad2e-e54f7b66d4ef
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Laboratory Investigations of Soils and Rocks for Engineering Analysis and Design of Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY – HISTORY 07/2014 – DG-1256 , Proposed Revision 3 08/2001 – DG-1109 , Proposed Revision 2 (Rev. 3)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1318/ML13186A032.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.138
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uidance • Regulatory Guide 4.7, “General Site Suitability Criteria for Nuclear Power Stations” (Ref. 4), discusses characteristics that affect a site’s suitability. • Regulatory Guide 1.132, “Site Investigations for Foundations of Nuclear Power Plants” (Ref. 5), discusses programs of field studies, exploratory borings, and sampling needed to provide geotechnical data for site evaluation and engineering analysis and design. • NUREG/CR-5739, “Laboratory Investigations of Soils and Rocks for Engineering Analysis and Design of Nuclear Power Facilities” (Ref. 6) provides the technical basis for this guide. The NRC developed NUREG/CR–5739 to reflect current and state-of-the-art techniques for laboratory testing of soils and rock. It summarizes the processes for a laboratory testing program, ranging from storage, selection, handling of test specimens to static, and dynamic testing methods and equipment. Purpose of Regulatory Guides The NRC issues regulatory guides to describe to the public methods that the staff considers acceptable for use in implementing specific parts of the agency’s regulations, to explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and to provide guidance to applicants. Regulatory guides are not substitutes for regulations and compliance with them is not required. Methods and solutions that differ from those set forth in regulatory guides are acceptable if they provide a basis for the findings required for the issuance or continuance of a permit or license by the Commission. Paperwork Reduction Act This regulatory guide contains information collection requirements covered by 10 CFR Part 50, 10 CFR Part 52, and 10 CFR Part 100 that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved under OMB control number 3150-0011, 3150-0151, and 3150-0093 respectively. The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an information collection request or