Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: f689fb6d-4711-4972-b900-1b2001877b19
Document Type: srp
Title: TSUNAMI HAZARDS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1819/ML18190A200.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 2
Section ID: 2.4.6
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atory Requirements The acceptance criteria described in this SRP section are based on addressing the following Commission regulations: 1. 10 CFR Part 100, “Reactor Site Criteria,” as it relates to identifying and evaluating hydrological features of the site. The requirements to consider physical site characteristics in site evaluations are specified in 10 CFR 100.10(c) for applications before January 10, 1997, and in 10 CFR 100.20(c) for applications on or after January 10, 1997. 2. 10 CFR 100.23(d) sets forth the criteria to determine the siting factors for plant design bases with respect to seismically-induced floods and water waves at the site. 3. 10 CFR Part 50, “Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,” Appendix A, “General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,” General Design Criterion (GDC) 2, “Design Bases for Protection Against Natural Phenomena,” as it relates to: (1) appropriate consideration of the most severe of the natural phenomena that have been historically reported for the site and surrounding area, with sufficient margin for the limited accuracy, quantity, and period of time in which the historical data have been accumulated, (2) appropriate combinations of the effects of normal and accident 8 Additional supporting information of prior DC rules may be found in DCD Tier 2 Section 14.3. 2.4.6-6 Revision 4 - September 2018 conditions with the effects of the natural phenomena, and (3) importance of the safety functions to be performed. 4. 10 CFR 52.17(a)(1)(vi), for ESP applications, and 10 CFR 52.79(a)(1)(iii), for COL applications, as they relate to identifying hydrologic site characteristics with appropriate consideration of the most severe of the natural phenomena that have been historically reported for the site and surrounding areas and with sufficient margin for the limited accuracy, quantity, and period of time in which the historical data have been accumulated. Regulatory Guides Regulatory Guides (RGs)