Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 496a8650-7c3b-4111-a527-d49e2f61ae5c
Document Type: srp
Title: PHYSICAL SECURITY—COMBINED LICENSE AND OPERATING REACTORS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1729/ML17291B265.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.6.1
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n’s determination of whether a nuclear power plant would be adequately protected and operated in accordance with NRC regulatory requirements. 3. As stated in SECY-11-0024, “Use of Risk Insights To Enhance the Safety Focus of Small Modular Reactor Reviews,” dated February 18, 2011 (available at Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML111320551), the level of review for a particular structure, system, or component (SSC) is derived from both the SSC’s safety importance (i.e., whether the SSC is safety-related or nonsafety-related) and risk significance. NUREG-0800, Introduction - Part II, Revision 0, describes the licensing review framework the NRC staff applies for new reactor design certification and COLA applications under 10 CFR Part 52 or OL applications processed under 10 CFR Part 50. The introduction states that the risk-informed review framework is applicable to the review of all SSCs, but it may not apply to the review of programmatic, procedural, organizational, or other topics, which, because of their safety or risk significance, are reviewed at the level determined to be appropriate by the technical branches performing the reviews. For example, the program or topical area may address regulatory requirements not amenable to a risk-informed approach (e.g., physical protection for safety of nuclear material and operations, waste 13.6.1-5 Revision 2 – August 2018 management, and instruments and control systems). In the case of physical security, the review framework involves performance and prescriptive regulatory requirements that do not incorporate risk significance and address protection (against deliberate acts such as radiological sabotage) as well as prescriptive design requirements. However, the safety significance of adequate technical review for physical security is the assurance of adequate protection against deliberate acts, which are not specifically considered or analyzed in the FSAR. Therefore, the