Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: c195adf7-a2ca-46e1-9071-9f87fd3d00ce
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: 10/2013 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1321/ML13210A463.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.73
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION October 2013 Revision 1 REGULATORY GUIDE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Technical Lead D. Murdock 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. ML13210A463. The regulatory analysis may be found under ADAMS Accession No. ML12219A400 and the staff responses to the public comments on DG-1235 may be found under ADAMS Accession No. ML13210A462. REGULATORY GUIDE 1.73 (Draft was issued as DG-1235, November 2012) QUALIFICATION TESTS FOR SAFETY-RELATED ACTUATORS IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS A. INTRODUCTION Purpose This regulatory guide (RG) endorses, with clarifications and exceptions, the methods described in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 382-2006, “Standard for Qualification of Safety-Related Actuators for Nuclear Power Generating Stations” (Ref. 1), as an acceptable process for demonstrating compliance with the applicable U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations for the environmental qualification of safety-related power-operated valve actuators in nuclear power plants. Applicable Rules and Regulations The regulations established by the NRC in Title 10, Part 50, “Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,” of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 50) (Ref. 2), require