Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 855b2438-2ddf-48e9-8762-e39097109e12
Document Type: srp
Title: FUEL SYSTEM DESIGN
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0523/ML052340660.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 4
Section ID: 4.2
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d fuel. In addition to the plant-specific surveillance program, there should exist a continuing fuel surveillance effort for a given type, make, or class of fuel that can be suitably referenced by all plants using similar fuel. In the absence of such a generic program, the reviewer should expect more detail in the plant-specific program. For a fuel design that introduces new features, a more detailed surveillance program commensurate with the nature of the changes 4.2-312 Rev. 2 - July 1981 should be described. This program should include appropriate qualitative and quantitative inspections to be carried out at interim and end-of-life refueling outages. This surveillance program should be coordinated with prototype testing discussed in subsection II.C.2. When prototype testing cannot be performed, a special detailed surveillance program should be planned for the first irradiation of a new design. III. REVIEH PROCEDURES For construction permit (CP) applications, the review should assure that the design bases set forth in the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) meet the acceptance criteria given in subsection II.A. The CP review should further determine from a study of the preliminary fuel system design that there is reasonable assurance that the final fuel system design will meet the design bases. This judgment may be based on experience with similar designs. For operating license (OL) applications, the review should confirm that the design bases set forth in the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) meet the acceptance criteria given in Subsection II.A and that the final fuel system design meets the design bases. Much of the fuel system review is generic and is not repeated for each similar plant. That is, the reviewer will have reviewed the fuel design or certain aspects of the fuel design in previous PSARs, FSARs, and licensing topical reports. All previous reviews on which the current review is dependent should be referenced so that a completely documented