§53.210. Safety criteria for design-basis accidents. — Inbound Citations

(i) Changes for temporary use of the land for public recreational purposes;

(ii) Site exploration, including necessary borings to determine foundation conditions or other preconstruction monitoring to establish background information related to the suitability of the site, the environmental impacts of construction or operation, or the protection of environmental values;

(iii) Preparation of a site for construction of a facility, including clearing of the site, grading, installation of drainage, erosion, and other environmental mitigation measures, and construction of temporary roads and borrow areas;

(iv) Erection of fences and other access control measures;

(v) Excavation;

(vi) Erection of support buildings (such as construction equipment storage sheds, warehouse and shop facilities, utilities, concrete mixing plants, docking and unloading facilities, and office buildings) for use in connection with the construction of the facility;

(vii) Building of service facilities (such as paved roads, parking lots, railroad spurs, exterior utility and lighting systems, potable water systems, sanitary sewage treatment facilities, and transmission lines);

(viii) Procurement or fabrication of components or portions of the proposed facility occurring at locations other than the final, in-place location at the facility; or

(ix) Manufacture of a nuclear power reactor under a manufacturing license (ML) under subpart H of this part to be installed at the proposed site and to be part of the proposed facility.

Custom combined license (custom COL) means a COL that does not reference a standard design approval, standard design certification, or manufacturing license.

Decommission or decommissioning means to remove a plant or site safely from service and reduce residual radioactivity to a level that permits—

(a) If the applicant seeks review of a major portion of a standard design, the application need only contain the information required by this section to the extent the requirements are applicable to the major portion of the standard design for which NRC staff approval is sought. If an applicant seeks approval of a major portion of the design, the scope of the application for which approval is sought must include all functional design criteria necessary to demonstrate compliance with the safety criteria in §§ 53.210, 53.220 and 53.450(e), as applicable, for the major portion of the standard design for which NRC staff approval is sought. Such applicants must identify conditions related to interfaces with systems outside the scope of the major portion of the standard design for which NRC staff approval is sought, and functional or physical boundary conditions between the major portion of the standard design for which NRC staff approval is sought and the remainder of the standard design. These conditions must be demonstrated when the standard design approval is incorporated into a subsequent CP, design certification, ML, or COL application.

(A) A description of how SSCs relied on to meet the safety criteria defined in § 53.210 are protected against or designed to withstand the effects of external hazards under § 53.510.

(4) The cumulative effects of the changes to the facility or procedures on the margins to the safety criteria in §§ 53.210, 53.220, and 53.450(e) since the last FSAR update; and

(c) The primary and additional safety functions are required to satisfy the safety criteria defined in §§ 53.210 and 53.220 and must be fulfilled by the design features, human actions, and programmatic controls specified throughout this part.

(2) Confirm the adequacy of design features and programmatic controls needed to satisfy the safety criteria defined in §§ 53.210 and 53.220, and

(a) Design features must be provided for each commercial nuclear plant such that, when combined with corresponding human actions and programmatic controls, the plant will satisfy the safety criteria defined in §§ 53.210 and 53.220.

(a) Functional design criteria must be defined for each design feature classified as safety-related (SR) in terms of its role in demonstrating compliance with the safety criteria defined in § 53.210.

(1) The analysis of LBEs required by § 53.240 must include analysis of DBAs that address possible challenges to the safety functions identified under § 53.230. The events selected as DBAs must be those that, if not terminated, have the potential for exceeding the safety criteria in § 53.210.

(b) For SR and NSRSS SSCs, the conditions under which they must perform their safety function in § 53.230 must be identified. Special treatments must be established in accordance with this and other subparts to provide confidence that the SSCs will perform under the service conditions and with reliability consistent with the analysis performed under § 53.450 to demonstrate meeting the safety criteria in §§ 53.210 and 53.220.

(1) The special treatments for SR SSCs must include meeting the applicable quality assurance requirements from appendix B of part 50 of this chapter.

(2) The special treatments for NSRSS SSCs and special treatments for SR SSCs beyond those required under paragraph (b)(1) of this section may include meeting selected quality assurance requirements from appendix B of part 50 of this chapter when such treatment is needed to address performance requirements, equipment reliability, or uncertainties.

(a) The siting of each commercial nuclear plant is supported by assessments of proposed sites such that the design, including design features and programmatic controls corresponding to the site characteristics, satisfies the safety criteria defined in §§ 53.210 and 53.220. The siting assessment addresses the site characteristics that might contribute to the initiation, progression, or consequences of licensing-basis events (LBEs) analyzed under §§ 53.450 and 53.480 that are identified and mitigated by design features or programmatic controls. The siting assessment takes into consideration the potential adverse impacts that a commercial nuclear plant may have on nearby populations as a result of normal operations or LBEs.

Site characteristics must be addressed by the design features, programmatic controls, and supporting analyses used to demonstrate that the safety criteria in §§ 53.210 and 53.220 are met for each commercial nuclear plant. Site characteristics must be such that adequate emergency plans and security plans can be developed and maintained.

Measures must be provided for each commercial nuclear plant licensed under this part such that the capabilities, availability, and reliability of plant SSCs, when combined with corresponding programmatic controls and human actions, provide that the safety criteria defined in §§ 53.210 and 53.220 will be met.

(1) The safety performance criteria of §§ 53.210 and 53.220 must be met without reliance upon human action for credited event mitigation.

(b) In addition to the programs described in the following sections, programs must be provided for each commercial nuclear plant, if necessary, to ensure that the performance of design features and human actions are consistent with the analyses performed under §§ 53.450 and 53.730 and that the plant will demonstrate compliance with the safety criteria defined in §§ 53.210 and 53.220.

(2) The fire protection plan must also describe specific features necessary to implement the program described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section such as the following: administrative controls and personnel requirements for fire prevention and manual fire suppression activities; automatic and manually operated fire detection and suppression systems; and the means to limit fire damage to SSCs so that the capability to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of § 53.210 is ensured.

(3) The physical protection program must be designed to prevent the release of radionuclides from any source from exceeding the dose reference values defined in § 53.210 of this chapter.

(1) Adversely impacting the safety, security, and emergency preparedness functions performed by digital assets that prevent a postulated fission product release resulting in offsite doses exceeding the values in § 53.210 of this chapter.

(ii) Safety, security, and emergency preparedness functions performed by digital assets that prevent a postulated fission product release resulting in offsite doses exceeding the values in § 53.210 of this chapter, or security functions performed by digital assets necessary for implementing the physical security requirements in § 53.860(a) of this chapter.