Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 0b9a3243-ab39-402c-9f4b-215c6e4f79ab
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Inservice Inspection of Ungrouted Tendons in Prestressed Concrete Containments (Rev. 3)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003740007.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.35
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G/CR-2719.2 This guide has been revised to reflect public com ments, suggestions from ORNL, and additional staff review. Regulatory Position 1 provides general informa tion on the applicability of the guide, frequency of inservice inspections, and inspections when there are two containments at a site. Regulatory Position 2 delineates the method of determining sample size and emphasizes random sampling. If random sampling can not be assured, it is acceptable to select representative samples from 2NUREG/CR-2719, "Evaluation of Inservice Inspections of Greased Prestressing Tendons," by J. R. Dougan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, September 1982. Available for sale from the U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 37082, Washington, DC 20013-7082, or from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161. USNRC REGULATORY GUIDES The guides are issued in the following ten broad divisions: Regulatory Guides are issued to describe and make available to the pub lic methods acceptable to the NRC staff of implementing specific parts 1. Power Reactors 6. Products of the Commission's regulations, to delineate techniques used by the 2. Research and Test Reactors 7. Transportation staff In evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, or to pro- 3. Fuels and Materials Facilities 8. Occupational Health vide guidance to applicants, Regulatory Guides are not substItutes for 4. Environmental and Siting g. Antitrust and Financial Review regulations, and compliance with them is not required. Methods and 5. Materials and Plant Protection 10. General solutions different from those set out in the guides will be acceptable If they provide a basis for the findings requisite to the issuance or continu ance of a permit or license by the Commission. Copies of Issued guides may be purchased from the Government Printing This guide was Issued after consideration of comments received from Office at the current GPO price. Information on current GPO prices may the public.