Improvements in inservice testing regulatory guidance

Conference · Sun Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:402028

Campbell, P L

Over the last few years, the NRC has issued guidance to licensees toward improving the quality of requests for relief or alternatives to the code requirements and bring some measure of consistency to the implementation of the code requirements. Based on the majority of the recent submittals, the overall quality has improved. If all of the steps in the internal process for responding to the requests are timely, the review of an updated program can be completed in six to nine months. When a single or only a few requests are submitted, the staff is generally able to complete an evaluation in less than three months. When schedules are related to outages or exigent circumstances, the NRC responds accordingly. The improvements in schedules can be attributed to publication of staff guideline documents, licensees` efforts in preparing more complete descriptions and justification and an increase in the number of NRC technical staff reviewers assigned to IST.

• Research Organization: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY (United States)
• OSTI ID: 402028
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CP--0152; CONF-9607103--; ON: TI96013645
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
IN-SERVICE INSPECTION
MODIFICATIONS
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
REGULATIONS
US NRC
VALVES
WATER PUMPS