Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 1f8fd3ff-bc9e-4b84-b4d9-71d2a51882f7
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Seismic Design Classification for Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY DG-1315 , Proposed Revision 5, published 09/2015 DG-1156 , Proposed Revision 4, published 10/2006 (Rev. 5)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1506/ML15061A048.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.29
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION September 2015 OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Division 1 DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE Technical Lead: Yiu Law This regulatory guide is being issued in draft form to involve the public in the development of regulatory guidance in this area. It has not received final staff review or approval and does not represent NRC final staff position. Public comments are being solicited on this draft guide and its associated regulatory analysis. Comments should be accompanied by appropriate supporting data. Comments may be submitted through the Federal rulemaking Web site, http://www.regulations.gov, by searching for Docket ID: NRC-2015-0220. Alternatively, comments may be submitted to the Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Comments must be submitted by the date indicated in the Federal Register notice. Electronic copies of this draft 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/reg- guides/. The draft 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 Accession No. ML15061A048. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15061A047. DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE DG-1315 (Proposed Revision 5 of Regulatory Guide 1.29, dated March 2007) SEISMIC DESIGN CLASSIFICATION FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS A. INTRODUCTION Purpose This regulatory guide describes a method that the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) considers acceptable for use in identifying and classifying those features of light- water-reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants that must be designed to withstand the effects of the safe- shutdown earthquake