Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 32179098-f78d-4852-9c29-1e5e3abb2705
Document Type: srp
Title: RISK-INFORMED DECISION MAKING:  TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0703/ML070380228.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 16
Section ID: 16.1
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sion 1 - March 2007 Such technical specifications, including information of the amount, kind, and source of special nuclear material required, the place of the use, the specific characteristics of the facility, and such other information as the Commission may, by rule or regulation, deem necessary in order to enable it to find that the utilization ... of special nuclear material will be in accord with the common defense and security and will provide adequate protection to the health and safety of the public. Such technical specifications shall be a part of any license issued. In Section 50.36, "Technical Specifications," of 10 CFR Part 50, "Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities," (Reference 9), the Commission established its regulatory requirements for TS content with emphasis on the prevention of accidents and the mitigation of accident consequences. The Commission expected applicants to incorporate into their TSs items directly related to maintenance of the integrity of physical barriers designed to contain radioactivity. Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.36, TSs are required to have the following five specific categories: (1) safety limits, limiting safety system settings, and limiting control settings, (2) limiting conditions for operation, (3) surveillance requirements, (4) design features, and (5) administrative control. Since the mid-1980s, the NRC has been reviewed and granted TS improvements based, at least in part, on PRA insights. Some of these improvements have been proposed by the Nuclear Steam Supply System owners groups to apply to entire classes of plants. Many others have been proposed by individual licensees. Typically, the proposed improvements relax one or more TS allowed outage times (AOTs) or surveillance test intervals (STIs).1 In its July 22, 1993, final policy statement on TS improvements (58 FR 39132) (Reference 10), the Commission stated that it: ...expects that licensees, in preparing their Technical Specification related