Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 97042a9a-9f44-4236-9cce-9d73fdf3fef0
Document Type: srp
Title: STEEL CONTAINMENT
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0523/ML052340577.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 3
Section ID: 3.8.2
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ction, and concludes that his evaluation is sufficiently complete to support the following type of conclusive statement to be included in the staff's Safety Evaluation Report: The staff concludes that the design of the steel containment is acceptable and meets the relevant requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, §50.55a, and General Design Criteria 1, 2, 4, 16, and 5O. This conclusion is based on the following: 1. The applicant has met the requirements of Section 50.55a and GDC 1 with respect to assuring that the steel containment is designed, fabricated, erected, constructed, tested and inspected to quality standards commensurate with its safety function to be performed by meeting the guidelines of regulatory guides and industry standards indicated below. 2. The applicant has met the requirements of GDC 2 by designing the steel containment to withstand the most severe earthquake that has been established for the site with sufficient margin and the combinations of the effects of normal and accident conditions with the effects of environmental loadings such as earthquakes and other natural phenomena. 3.. The applicant has met the requirements of GDC 4 by assuring that the design of steel containment is capable of withstanding the dynamic effects associated with missiles, pipe whipping, and discharging fluids. 4. The applicant has met the requirements of GDC 16 by designing the steel containment so that it is an essentially leaktight barrier to prevent the uncontrolled release of radioactive effluents to the environment. 5. The applicant has met the requirements of GDC 50 by designing the steel containment to accommodate, with sufficient margin, the design leakage rate, calculated pressure and temperature conditions resulting from accident conditions, and by assuring that the design conditions are not exceeded during the full course of the accident condition. In meeting these design requirements, the applicant has used the recommendations of regulatory guides and industry