Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 9b735916-a58a-4bd3-b7e0-826b84cb6e43
Document Type: srp
Title: FRACTURE PREVENTION OF CONTAINMENT PRESSURE BOUNDARY
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070465.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 6
Section ID: 6.2.7
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e guidance to applicants and licensees regarding the NRC staff's plans for using this SRP section. This SRP section will be used by the staff when performing safety evaluations of license applications submitted by applicants pursuant to 10 CFR 50 or 10 CFR 52. Except in those 40 cases in which the applicant proposes an acceptable alternative method for complying with specified portions of the Commission's regulations, the method described herein will be used by the staff in its evaluation of conformance with Commission regulations. The provisions of this SRP section apply to reviews of applications docketed six months or more after the date of issuance of this SRP section.41 Implementation schedules for conformance to parts of the method discussed herein are contained in the referenced regulatory guides and NUREGsregulations. 42 VI. REFERENCES 43 1. 10 CFR Part 50, §50.55a, Codes and Standards.44 12. 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, General Design Criterion 1, "Quality Standards and 45 Records." 6.2.7-7 DRAFT Rev. 1 - April 1996 23. 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, General Design Criterion 16, "Containment Design." 34. 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, General Design Criterion 51, "Fracture Prevention of Containment Pressure Boundary." 65. Regulatory Guide 1.26, "Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants." 56. NUREG-0577 Revision 1, "Potential for Low Fracture Toughness and Lamellar Tearing on PWR Steam Generator and Reactor Coolant Pump Supports," USNRC, October 19831979 (Draft). 46 47. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section III, Division 1, Summer 1977 Addenda, Subsection NC, "Class 2 Components", American Society of Mechanical Engineers.47 8. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section III, Division 1, Subsection NE, "Class MC Components," American Society of Mechanical Engineers.48 DRAFT Rev. 1 - April 1996 6.2.7-8 [This Page Intentionally Left Blank] SRP Draft Section 6.2.7