Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: db0c5d18-2d27-4720-8935-40b402e52f9a
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Guidance for a Technology-Inclusive, Risk-Informed, and Performance-Based Methodology to Inform the Licensing Basis and Content of Applications for Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Non-Light Water Reactors + HISTORY - HISTORY 05/2019 – Issued DG-1353 , Proposed Revision 0
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1831/ML18312A242.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.233
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), No. SSR- 2/1, “Safety of Nuclear Power Plants Design” (Ref. 23) • Specific Safety Guide (SSG), No. SSG-2, “Deterministic Safety Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants” (Ref. 24) • No. SSG-3, “Development and Application of Level 1 Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants” (Ref. 25) • No. SSG-12, “Licensing Process for Nuclear Installations” (Ref. 26) Documents Discussed in Staff Regulatory Guidance This RG endorses, in part, the use of one or more codes or standards developed by external organizations, and other third party guidance documents. These codes, standards, and third party guidance documents may contain references to other codes, standards, or third party guidance documents (“secondary references”). If a secondary reference has itself been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations as a requirement, then licensees and applicants must comply with that standard as set forth in the regulation. If the secondary reference has been endorsed in a RG as an acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement, then the standard constitutes a method acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting that regulatory requirement as described in the specific RG. If the secondary reference has neither been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations nor endorsed in a RG, then the secondary reference is neither a legally-binding requirement nor a “generic” NRC-approved acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement. However, licensees and applicants may consider and use the information in the secondary reference, if appropriately justified, consistent with current regulatory practice, and consistent with applicable NRC requirements. DG-1353, Page 10 C. STAFF REGULATORY GUIDANCE This RG endorses the methods described in NEI 18-04 for informing the licensing basis and content of applications for permits, licenses, certifications, and approvals for non-LWRs.4 The staff takes no significant exceptions to the guidance in NEI 18-04 but