Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: fa5814c8-b91a-435c-8ee0-5cd4915f8b80
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Performance-Based Emergency Preparedness for Small Modular Reactors, Non-Light-Water Reactors, and Non-Power Production or Utilization Facilities
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1808/ML18082A044.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.242
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mergency response functions that will address any credible hazard that would adversely impact the implementation of emergency plans. The analysis should: a. identify and characterize the site-specific hazards posed by multi-modular and nuclear units, nearby, adjacent, or contiguous facilities that could complicate the SMR, non-LWR, or NPUF’s emergency response (e.g., nature of the challenge in terms of timing, severity, and persistence); b. evaluate the impacts of the identified hazards (e.g., realistic response timeline, functional threats caused by the hazard, strategies needed to address the hazard); and, c. describe the planning activities or emergency response functions that will mitigate the impacts of the identified hazards (e.g., see the guidance under Regulatory Guidance C.5.c.3.b of this RG). DG-1350, Page 23 D. IMPLEMENTATION The NRC staff may use this regulatory guide as a reference in its regulatory processes, such as licensing, inspection, or enforcement. However, the NRC staff does not intend to use the guidance in this regulatory guide to support NRC staff actions in a manner that would constitute backfitting as that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109, “Backfitting,” and as described in NRC Management Directive 8.4, “Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests,” (Ref. 19), nor does the NRC staff intend to use the guidance to affect the issue finality of an approval issued under 10 CFR Part 52, “Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.” The staff also does not intend to use the guidance to support NRC staff actions in a manner that constitutes forward fitting as that term is defined and described in Management Directive 8.4. If a licensee believes that the NRC is using this regulatory guide in a manner inconsistent with the discussion in this Implementation section, then the licensee may file a backfitting or forward fitting appeal with the NRC in accordance with the process