Nonreactor Nuclear Facility

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3.16 Nonreactor Nuclear Facility. A facility in which activities or operations involve radioactive

and/or fissionable materials in such form and quantity that a nuclear hazard potentially exists to the

employees or the general public. Included are activities or operations that: (1) produce, process, or

store radioactive liquid or solid waste, fissionable materials, or tritium; (2) conduct separations

operations; (3) conduct irradiated materials inspection, fuel fabrication, decontamination, or recovery

operations; (4) conduct fuel enrichment operations; or, (5) perform environmental remediation or

waste management activities involving radioactive materials. Incidental use and generation of

radioactive materials in a facility operation (e.g., check and calibration sources, use of radioactive

sources in research and experimental and analytical laboratory activities, electron microscopes, and

X-ray machines) would not ordinarily require the facility to be included in this definition.

Accelerators and reactors and their operations are not included. The application of any rule to a

nonreactor nuclear facility shall be applied using a graded approach.

3.17 Nuclear Facility. Nuclear facility means reactor and nonreactor nuclear facilities.

3.18 Objective Evidence. Any documented statement of fact, other physical condition

information, or record (either quantitative or qualitative) pertaining to the quality of an item or

activity based on observations, measurements, or tests which can be independently verified.

3.19 Objectives and Sub-objectives. Aims or goals for the readiness of a facility to start and

continue to operate safely.

3.20 Operational Readiness Review. A disciplined, systematic, documented, performance-based

examination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and management control systems to

ensure that a facility will be operated safely within its approved safety envelope as defined by the

facility safety basis. The Operational Readiness Review scope is defined based on the specifics of

the facility and/or the reason for the shutdown as related to a minimum set of core requirements. A

graded approach will be used in defining the depth of the Operational Readiness Review based on

these core requirements.

3.21 ORR Implementation Plan. The procedural document by which the ORR is conducted.

This document will implement the policy and actions approved in the ORR plan-of-action or