Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 98a045ec-37ef-46fc-9eaa-9e695c2d6e53
Document Type: srp
Title: OFFSITE POWER SYSTEM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0523/ML052350488.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 8
Section ID: 8.2
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red circuits can, within a few seconds, provide power to safety- related equipment following a loss-of-coolant accident. General Design Criterion 17 does not require these circuits in themselves to be single-failure-proof for this accident. However, it is required that each circuit have the capability to be available in sufficient time to prevent fuel design limits and design conditions of the reactor coolant pressure boundary from being exceeded. Therefore, the design is examined to determine that the period of time that the station can remain in a safe condition assuming no ac power is available is greater than the time required to reestablish ac power from the offsite grid to the onsite Class 1E distribution buses for each single failure event. 'The switchyard circuit breaker control scheme should be such that any incoming transmission line, switchyard bus, or any path to the onsite safety-related distribution buses can be isolated so that ac power can be reestablished to the onsite Class 1E buses through its redundant counterpart. This should be achieved with separate and redundant breaker tripping and closing devices, that are actuated by redundant dc battery supplies. Air stored under pressure in accumulators or spring energy should be used to open and/or close breakers Independent of ac power. 8.2-5 Rev. 3 - July 1983 For those designs that utilize a backfeed path through the main generator step-up transformer, the reviewer must first ascertain if this path is required to satisfy the GDC 17 requirement for an immediate or delayed access circuit. If the circuit is for delayed access only, then the same determination (as discussed in the previous paragraph) must be made, i.e., there is sufficient time to make this circuit available (assuming the availability of the grid itself but the unavailability of the immediate access circuit and the onsite power supplies) such that the reactor remains in a safe condition. If the circuit is required for immediate access or