Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 7f6b0af0-d79e-4704-9eac-aa03109a7731
Document Type: srp
Title: RISK-INFORMED DECISIONMAKING: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0425/ML042520260.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 16
Section ID: 16.1
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y available for review. * The Commission's safety goals for nuclear power plants and subsidiary numerical objectives are to be used with appropriate consideration of uncertainties in making regulatory judgments on need for proposing and backfitting new generic requirements on nuclear power plant licensees. In its approval of the policy statement, the Commission articulated its expectation that implementation of the policy statement will improve the regulatory process in three areas: foremost, through safety decisionmaking enhanced by the use of PRA insights; through more efficient use of agency resources; and through a reduction in unnecessary burdens on licensees. Regulatory Guide 1.177 (Ref. 8) describes an acceptable method for assessing the nature and impact of proposed TS changes by considering engineering issues and applying risk insights. Licensees submitting risk information (whether on their own initiative or at the request of the staff) should address each of the principles of risk-informed regulation discussed in Regulatory Guide 1.177. Licensees should identify how chosen approaches and methods (whether they are quantitative or qualitative, and traditional or probabilistic), data, and criteria for considering risk are appropriate for the decision to be made. SRP 16.1-3 Rev. 0 - August 1998 REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES Primary responsibility for evaluating the technical bases for TS changes resides with the lead technical branch, as specified in SRP Chapter 16, "Technical Specifications." Other branches with review responsibility for risk-informed TS change requests include the Probabilistic Safety Assessment Branch, the Technical Specifications Branch, and the appropriate Project Directorate. Rev. 0 - August 1998 SRP 16.1-4 1. AREAS OF REVIEW NRC Standard Review Plan (SRP) Chapter 19 (Ref. 13) describes a four-element approach for evaluating risk-informed regulatory changes. The individual elements are described in detail in Section 1, "Areas of Review," of