Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: f07feb9e-0113-4ab4-b79b-ecfb1f8b791a
Document Type: srp
Title: RELIABILITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1329/ML13296A435.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 17
Section ID: 17.4
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s for potential design and pre-operational errors that could degrade nonsafety-related RAP SSCs. 3. A COL applicant referencing a certified design should propose a process for integrating the RAP into operational programs (e.g., maintenance rule program, QA program, inservice inspection, inservice testing, surveillance testing, and maintenance programs). The process should also address the (1) establishment of reliability, availability, or condition performance goals for the RAP SSCs, (2) establishment of performance and condition monitoring requirements to provide reasonable assurance that RAP SSCs do not degrade to an unacceptable level of reliability, availability, or condition during plant operations, (3) for nonsafety-related RAP SSCs, establishment of QA controls for activities during the operations phase in accordance with the provisions in Part V of SRP Section 17.5, and (4) consideration of dominant failure modes of RAP SSCs in meeting the objectives of the RAP during plant operation. B. COMBINED LICENSE APPLICATION B.1 Plant-Specific Reliability Assurance Program The applicant should appropriately update the description of the D-RAP to include relevant COL site- and plant-specific information (e.g., design, program, 17.4-12 Revision 1 –May 2014 procedural, and organizational information). This includes (1) identifying the SSCs within the scope of the plant-specific RAP (i.e., the RAP SSCs identified in the DC, updated using COL site- and plant-specific information), and (2) establishing the programmatic controls of D-RAP (see Section A.2) that are applied during the COL design and construction activities prior to initial fuel load. These programmatic controls are processes that ensure the plant will be designed and constructed in a manner that is consistent with the risk insights and key assumptions from probabilistic, deterministic, and other methods of analysis used to identify and quantify risk. If needed, the staff can perform one or more audits to