Regulatory Guide 3.3

Quality Assurance Program Requirements for Fuel Reprocessing Plants & for Plutonium Processing & Fuel Fabrication Plants

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Revision 1 March 1974 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

REGULATORY

DIRECTORATE OF REGULATORY STANDARDS

GUIDE

REGULATORY GUIDE 3.3 QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

FOR FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS AND FOR PLUTONIUM

PROCESSING AND FUEL FABRICATION PLANTS

A. INTRODUCTION

under the sponsorship of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, has developed a standard wihich Appendix B, "Quality Assurance Criteria for includes general guidance for the establishment and Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants," to execution of quality assurance programs during the

10 CFR Part 50, "licensing of Production and design, construction, and operation phases of nuclear Utilization Facilities," establishes quality assurance power plants. This standard was approved by the requirements for the design, construction, and operation American National Standards Committee N45 and its of nuclear power plant and fuel reprocessing plant Secretariat, and it was subsequently approved and structures, systems, and components. Paragraph 70.22(0 designated N45.2-1971 by the American National of 10 CFR Part 70, "Special Nuclear Material," requires Standards Institute on October 20, 1971.

that each application for a license to possess and use special nuclear material in a plutonium processing and This standard is adaptable to fuel reprocessing fuel fabrication plant contain a description of the plants and to plutonium processing and fuel fabrication quality assurance program to be applied to the design, fabrication, construction, testing, and operation of the plants, since it was prepared to satisfy the intent and am~lify the requirements of AEC quality assurance I

structures, systems, and components of the plant. It regulations and to provide general guidance for the further provides that the description include a discussion establishment and execution of quality assurance of how the criteria of 'Appendix B of Part 50 will be programs.

met. Paragraph 70.23(b) of 10 CFR Part 70 provides that the Commission will approve construction of a C., REGULATORY POSITION

plutonium processing and fuel fabrication plant when it has determined that the design bases and the quality The general guidelines for establishing and executing assurance program provide reasonable assurance of quality assurance programs for nuclear power plants protection against natural phenomena and the which are included in ANSI N45.2-1971, "Quality consequences of potential accidents noting that the Assurance Program Requirements for Nuclear Power criteria in Appendix B will be used in determining the Plants," ' may be adapted to fuel reprocessing plants adequacy of the quality assurance program. This and to plutonium processing and fuel fabrication plants, regulatory guide describes a method acceptable to the and are generally acceptable and provide an adequate Regulatory staff of complying with the Commission's basis for complying with the program requirements of regulations with regard to overall quality assurance Appendix B to IOCFR Part 50 applicable to I uc:l program requirements for fuel reprocessing and for reprocessing plants and to plutonium processing and fuel plutonium processing and fuel fabrication plants. fabrication plants. When adapting ANSI N45.2-1971 to fuel reprocessing plants and to plutonium processing and

B. DISCUSSION

• fuel fabrication plants, the term "fuel reprocessing and plutonium processing and fuel fabrication plants" should Subcommittee N45-3, Nuclear Quality Assurance be substituted as applicable wherever specific reference Standards (formerly ad hoc Committee N45-3.7), of the is made to the term "nuclear power plant(s)".

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