Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 3c238fa7-baa2-41c1-ac85-868fcda6b038
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Design Limits, Loading Combinations, Materials, Construction, and Testing of Concrete Containments + HISTORY – HISTORY 07/2020 – DG-1372 , Proposed Revision 4 05/2019 – Periodic Review of Revision 3 – Revise 10/2015 – Periodic Review of Revision 3 – Reviewed with issues identified for future consideration 10/2006 – DG-1159, Proposed Revision 3 Prior to the issuance of DG-1159, RG 1.136 was entitled "Materials, Construction, and Testing of Concrete Containments (Rev. 4)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2010/ML20105A215.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.136
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organizations, and other third-party guidance documents. These codes, standards, and third-party guidance documents may contain references to other codes, standards, or third-party guidance documents (“secondary references”). If a secondary reference has itself been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations as a requirement, then licensees and applicants must comply with that standard as set forth in the regulation. If the secondary reference has been endorsed in an RG as an acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement, then the standard constitutes a method acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting that regulatory requirement as described in the specific RG. If the secondary reference has neither been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations nor endorsed in an RG, then the secondary reference is neither a legally binding requirement nor a “generic” NRC-approved acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement. However, licensees and applicants may consider and use the information in the secondary reference, if appropriately justified, consistent with current regulatory practice, and consistent with applicable NRC requirements. DG-1372, Page 15 C. STAFF REGULATORY GUIDANCE For the materials, design, fabrication, construction, examination, testing, and ISI of concrete containments, this RG endorses, with exceptions, the following industry codes and standards: • ASME, Section III, Division 2, 2019 Edition, “Code for Concrete Containments” • ASME, Section III, Subsection NCA, 2019 Edition, “General Requirements for Division 1 and Division 2” Articles CC-1000 through CC-6000 of the Code are acceptable to the NRC staff for the scope, material, design, construction, examination, and testing of concrete containments of nuclear power plants subject to the following regulatory guidance positions. Unless otherwise stated, the regulatory guidance positions indicated are in addition to the Code provisions. 1. CC-2232.4 Basis for Selection