Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: c94378e6-d5f2-4911-8d1d-2a16783d9866
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Installation of Overpressure Protection Devices
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1306/ML13064A109.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.67
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avior of this force. 3. Experience seems to indicate that the discharge of one valve in a multiple-valve installation on a single run pipe could 'lead to premature discharge of the other valves due to mechanical or hydraulic shock transmitted through the common piping or due to other types of interaction. Because of this potential for simultaneous USAEC REGULATORY GUIDES Copies of published guides may be obtained by request indicating the division- desired to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. 20545, Regulatory Guides are issued to describe and make available to the public Attention: Director of Regulatory Standards. Comments and suggestions fot methods acceptable to the AEC Regulatory staff of implementing specific parts of improvements in these guides are encouraged and should be sent to the Secretar,. the Commissions' regulations, to delineate techniques used by the staff in of the Commission, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. 20545, evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, or to provide guidance to Attention: Chief, Public Proceedings Staff. applicants. Regulatory Guides are not substitutes for regulations and compliance with them is not reouired. Methods and solutions different from those set out in The guides are issued in the following ten broad divisions: the guides will be acceptable if they provide a basis for the findings requisite to the iruance or continuance of a permit or license by the Commission. 1. Power Reactors 6. Products 2. Research and Test Reactors 7. TranspOrtation 3. Fuels and Materials Facilities 8. Occupational Health Published guides will be revised periodically, as appropriate, to accommodate 4. Environmental and Siting 9. Antitrust Review comments and to reflect new information or experience. 6. Materials and Plant Protection 10. General discharge, a reasonable position to assure adequate strength is to require consideration of the most severe potenlial sequence of discharges; e.g., either