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Nuclear Facility. Reactor and non-reactor nuclear facilities. (For guidance on hazard categories for

nuclear facilities please see DOE-STD-1027-93.)

Open Item. A validated situation involving: apparent contradictions from different source documents;

concerns; unanswered technical questions; or cases of missing, undocumented, or inaccurate

information.

Phased Implementation. Involves establishing priorities, milestones with deliverable products, and

implementation schedules within the context of the amount of resources and funding that can

reasonably be expected to be available.

Physical Configuration. The actual physical location, arrangement, and material condition of structures,

systems, and components within a facility.

Program Management. The process of defining program objectives, identifying actions/tasks to

accomplish those objectives, estimating the level of effort needed to complete each task, organizing

and scheduling the planned tasks, staffing an organization to accomplish the planned tasks,

assigning personnel to specific tasks, monitoring progress during the implementation, identifying

problems and taking corrective actions, and recognizing tasks and program completion.

Program Management Element. A CM program element that, in addition to general program

management functions, encompasses the following functions: planning for the development and

implementation of the CM program; establishing the criteria for the scope of the structures, systems

and components to be included in the program; defining key concepts and terminology; identifying

and controlling important organizational and programmatic interfaces; establishing the policy and

criteria for necessary tools, such as CM databases; and developing and maintaining governing and

implementing procedures.

Programmatic or Technical Issues. Important issues that might need to be resolved, or partially resolved,

in order to complete the CM planning process.

Reactor. Unless modified by words such as containment, vessel, or core, the entire nuclear reactor

facility, including the housing, equipment, and associated areas devoted to the operation and

maintenance of one or more reactor cores. Any apparatus that is designed or used to sustain

nuclear chain reactions in a controlled manner, including critical and pulsed assemblies and

research, test, and power reactors, is defined as a reactor. All assemblies designed to perform

subcritical experiments that could potentially reach criticality are also to be considered reactors.

Critical assemblies are special nuclear devices designed and used to sustain nuclear reactions.

Critical assemblies may be subject to frequent core and lattice configuration change and may be

used frequently as mockups of reactor configurations.

Safety Design Requirements. Those design requirements that are necessary to protect off-site, on-site,

and facility personnel from nuclear hazards and other hazards, such as sulfuric acid and chlorine.

Safety design requirements include those necessary to satisfy DOE safety requirements.

Smart Search. A process through which that set of documents that are most likely to contain design

requirements are identified, retrieved and evaluated. Key steps involve location of the source

documents most likely to contain design requirements, screening them for applicability, and

reviewing them to extract design information.

SSC Grade. A measure of the importance of structures, systems, and components (SSCs) within the

facility, based on the most important design requirements applicable to the SSC, that can be used to

determine priorities and proper levels of attention and resource allocations. An example of SSC

grades and associated priorities is: (1) safety, (2) environmental, (3) mission, and (4) others.

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