Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 16c1145e-ffe2-48c4-bd44-0ccaeb83dc99
Document Type: srp
Title: FIRE PROTECTION PROGRAM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070563.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.5.1
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and describes protective measures to be taken as a part of the fire protection of these plants. It provides useful guidance in this important area. The Nuclear Energy Liability and Property Insurance Association (NELPIA) and the Mutual Atomic Energy Reinsurance Pool (MAERP) have prepared a document entitled "Specifications for Fire Protection of New Plants," (Reference 59) which gives general conditions and valuable criteria. 62 A special review group organized by the NRC under Dr. Stephen H. Hanauer, Technical 63 Advisor to the Executive Director for Operations, to study the Browns Ferry fire, issued a report, NUREG-0050, "Recommendations Related to Browns Ferry Fire," in February 1976 (Reference 41) , which contains recommendations applicable to all nuclear power plants. This BTP uses 64 the applicable information contained in these documents. The fire protection program for a nuclear power plant presented in this BTP consists of design features, personnel, equipment, and procedures that provide the defense-in-depth protection of the public health and safety. The purpose of the program is to prevent significant fires, to ensure the capability to shut down the reactor and maintain it in a safe shutdown condition, and to minimize radioactive releases to the environment in the event of a significant fire. To meet these objectives, it is essential that management participation in the program begin with early design concepts and plant layout work and continue through plant operation and that a qualified staff be responsible for engineering and design of fire protection features that provide fire detection, annunciation, confinement, and suppression for the plant. The staff should also be responsible for fire prevention activities, maintenance of fire protection systems, training, and manual firefighting activities. It is the combination of all these that provides the needed defense-in-depth protection of the public health and safety. Some of the major conclusions that