Chapter 10 Experimental Facilities/Steam and Power Conversion System

This chapter identifies criteria for experimental

Regulatory

facilities and steam and power conversion systems.

Guide 1.70 does not address experimental facilities.

One of the principal missions of many DOE reactors is to

This section identi-

conduct research and perform experiments.

fies criteria for research facilities and conducting experiments.

Code of Federal Regulations

10.1.1

10 CFR 50.55a, "Codes and Standards."

10 CFR 50.59, "Changes, Tests, and Experiments."

10 CFR 50, Appendix A, "General Design Criteria for

Nuclear Power Plants," (Appropriate GDC should be applied depend-

ing on the importance to safety of an experimental facility).

10 CFR 50, Appendix B, "Quality Assurance Criteria

for Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants,"

(Appropriate criteria should be applied depending on the impor-

tance to safety of an experimental facility).

USNRC Regulatory Guides, SRP Branch Technical Positions

10.1.2

and Appendices

Regulatory Guide 1.26, "Quality Group Classifica-

tions and Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-Waste-

Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants."

1.29,

"Seismic Design Classifi-

Regulatory

Guide

cation."

Regulatory Guide 2.1, "Shield Test Program for

Evaluation of Installed Biological Shielding in Research and

Training Reactors."

Regulatory

Guide 2.4, "Review of Experiments for

Research Reactors."

Guide 2.2, "Development of Technical

Regulatory

Specifications for Experiments in Research Reactors."

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