Quality assurance program requirements for research reactors - approved 1976

Book · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:6767827

The standard provides requirements for establishing, managing, conducting, and evaluating quality assurance programs for the design, construction, testing, modification and maintenance of research reactors and associated experiments, but not routine reactor operations. In terms of this standard: (1) quality assurance comprises those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a structure, system, or component will perform satisfactorily in service; (2) a research reactor is one used for scientific, engineering, or training purposes which operates at: (a) a thermal power level of 1 megawatt or less; or (b) a thermal power level of 10 megawatts or less and does not contain: (i) a flow loop through the core in which fueled experiments are conducted, or (ii) a liquid fuel loading, or (iii) an experimental facility in the core in excess of 16 square inches (103.2 cm/sup 2/) in cross-section. Quality assurance effort is applied to safety-related items, which are defined as those physical structures, systems, and components whose intended functions are to either prevent accidents that could cause undue risk to the health and safety or the public, or to control and mitigate the consequences of such accidents.

• OSTI ID: 6767827
• Report Number(s): ANS-15.8; ANSI-N-402-1976
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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