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The Department of Energy (DOE) Order DOE 5480.6, "Safety

of Department of Energy-Owned Nuclear Reactors," establishes

reactor safety requirements to assure that reactors are sited,

designed, constructed, modified, operated, maintained, and decom-

missioned in a manner that adequately protects health and safety

and is in accordance with uniform standards, guides, and codes

which are consistent with those applied to comparable licensed

reactors.

This document identifies nuclear safety criteria applied

to licensed reactors. The degree of application of these criteria

to a DOE-owned reactor, consistent with their application to com-

parable licensed reactors, must be determined by the DOE and DOE

contractor.

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This document is a compilation and source list of

nuclear safety criteria that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

(NRC) applies to licensed reactors; it can be used by DOE and DOE

contractors to identify NRC criteria to be evaluated for applica-

tion to the DOE reactors under their cognizance.

The criteria

listed are those that are applied to the areas of nuclear safety

addressed in the safety analysis report of a licensed reactor.

They are derived from federal regulations, USNRC regulatory

guides, Standard Review Plan (SRP) branch technical positions and

appendices, and industry codes and standards.

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To assure that this document includes all the areas of

nuclear safety addressed in a safety analysis report, USNRC

Regulatory Guide 1.70, "Standard Format and Content of Safety

Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants," Rev. 3 is used to

establish the format of this document and the titles of each

chapter and its subsections. The principal sources for the com-

piled nuclear safety criteria are Regulatory Guide 1.70 and

NUREG-0800, USNRC "Standard Review Plan," June 1987. The compila-

tion also includes criteria published since the last revision of

To eliminate excessive repetition,

these source documents.

criteria are identified only in those subsections that address

As an example, even though 10 CFR

the thrust of the criteria.

50, Appendix B, "Quality Assurance," is applicable to all areas

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