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AUG 191977 D
MEMORANDlH FOR: Howard K. Shapar, Executive Director, Office of the Executive Legal Director Saul Levine, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Robert B. Minogue, Director, Office of Standards Development Ernst Volgenau, Director, Office of Inspection &
Enforcement FROM:
Edson G. Case, Acting Director, Office of Nuclear i
Reactor Regulation StBJECT:
SYSTEMATIC EVAll!ATION PROGRAM (SEP)
REFERENCES:
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SECY 76-545, The Systematic Evaluation of Operating Nuclear Power Plants 2.
Task Force Report on the Systematic Evaluation of Operating Nuclear Power Plants, November 1976 Enclosed for your review are the Co@rehensive List of SEP Topics, dated August 17, 1977, and definitions of the topics, that will be the bases for the proposed Systematic Evaluation Program for operating nuclear power plants.
This list, combined with the definitions, represents a comosite of known E
topics of safety concerns and safety issues that are presently applicable to operating Light Water Reactors. For manageability, the tooics have been organized in the fomat of the Standard Review Plan Table of Contents. Some specific issues have been combined in the definitions of a costnon topic.-
The introduction to the list identifies the princinai sources of the topics, the basis for the categorical deletion of some topics, and the oeneric items that are being evaluated by others.
Generic items are retained on the topic list for purooses of followup by SEP, to assure that any resolutions are con-sistent with the objectives of the SEP, and for appropriate integration into plant specific reviews. Additional items will be deleted when a topic list is prepared for a specific plant.
Some items may also be added as the plant reviews progress. No items relevant to operating licht water reactors have been deleted, and comprehensive records of the disposition of all topics have been naintained. Comments from the four divisions within NRR have ber j
appropriately incorporated into the list and definitions.
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Multiple Addressees g yg g The basic objectives of the SEP as approved by the Comission include:
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To assess the safety adequacy of the design and operation of currently licensed nuclear power plants, i
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To document how each operating plant compares with current criteria on significant safety issues, and provide a rationale for acceptable, departures from these criteria, and i
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To provide the capability to make integrated and balanced decisions with regard to any required backfitting.
The program is to be of sufficient detail so that backfit decisions can i
be based on a balancing of relative safety improvements against the impact i
of implementing theta but is expected to be considerably more limited than a review using the entire Standard Review Plan. The selected method for j
accomplishing the SEP is to review operating reactors against a selected i
list of licensing reouirements or safety concerns.
Any questions or comments you may have on the appropriateness of the topics selected for consideration in the SEP, or correctness of the definitions, safety objective, and status should be addressed to D. Ziemann (X27380).
To maintain the Commission's HBO Schedule any connents nust be received by August 26, 1977.
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