ML19250A951
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| Issue date: | 09/25/1979 |
| From: | Minogue R NRC OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT |
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7590-01 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY DRAFT SAFETY GUIDE Notice of Availability of Draft for Public Comment The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is developing a limited number of internationally acceptable codes of practice and safety guides for nuclear power plants.
These codes and guides will be developed in the following five areas: Government Organization', Siting', Design, Operation, and Quality Assurance.
The purpose of these codes and guides is to provide IAEA guidance to countries beginning nuclear power programs.
The IAEA Codes of Practice and Safety Guides are developed in the following way.
The IAEA receives and collates relevant existing informtion used by member countries. Using this collation as a starting. point. an IAEA Working Group of a few experts then develops a preliminary draft.
This pre-liminary draft is reviewed and modified by the IAEA Technical Review Committee to the extent necessary to develop a draft acceptable to them.
This draft Code of Practice or Safety Guide is then sent to the IAEA Senior Advisory Group which reviews and modifies the draft as necessary to reach agreement on the draft and then forwards it to the IAEA Secretariat to obtain comments from the Member States. The Senior Advisory Group then considers the Member State comments, again modifies the draft as necessary to reach agreement and forwards it to the IAEA Director General with a recommendation that it be accepted.
As part of this program, Safety Guide SG-08. " Surveillance of Important Systems and Components in Nuclear Power Plants'," has been developed.
The Working Group. consisting of Mr. J. Burtheret of France; Mr. P. V. Gujar of India; and Mr. R. E. Denton (Baltimore Gas and Electric Company) of the United 882 335 I
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States of America, developed the initial draft of this Safety Guide from an IAEA collation duricy a meeting on February 12-23; 1979.
The Working Group draft was modified by the IAEA Technical Review Committee in a meeting on July 2-6, 1979.
We 1re soliciting comments on Revision 2 of this Safety Guide dated July 5, 1979. Comments on this draft received by Novembpr 15 1979 will be useful to the U.S. representatives to the Technical Review Committee and Senior Advisory Group in evaluating its adaquacy prior to the next IAEA discussion.
Single copies of this draft may be obtained by a written request to the Director; Office of Standards Development; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Washington, D.C.
20555.
(5 U.S.C. 522(a))
Dated at Rockville. Md. this 26th day of _ September 1979 FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION g Q", ;,'.
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