Nuclear regulatory commission initiative for technical specification improvement

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:5854371

Reinhart, M ^[1]

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1. Dept. of Energy, Albuquerque, NM (United States)

In February 1987, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued its interim Policy Statement on Technical Specifications Improvement for Nuclear Power Reactors. The Commission issued the statement after studying the issue for several years. During that time, the industry had conducted a similar study. The policy statement focuses on the purposes of technical specifications: (1) to identify features that are of controlling importance to safety; and (2) to establish conditions that assure safe operation of those features (conditions that cannot be changed without previous NRC approval). The primary implementation goal of the policy statement is to develop new technical specifications that will improve the safety of nuclear plants with a package of features which, taken together, allow the NRC to conclude that the new standard technical specifications (STS) improve safety.

• OSTI ID: 5854371
• Report Number(s): CONF-910603--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Journal Volume: 63
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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