Requirements in Member States
This section provides Member States requirements relevant to long term operation. Currently US NRC documents are available. National standards in other Member States will be provided later.
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National standards in the USA (Licence Renewal)
This subsection provides US regulatory documents for licensing renewal. The US introduced Licensing Renewal for long term operation of nuclear power plants. License renewal is:
- US NRC process governed by 10 CFR Part 54;
- Renewal of original 40 year operating license for an additional 20 years.
The Licensing Renewal is a prerequisite for plant life extension. 10 CFR Part 54 is a regulation to control the Licensing Renewal process. US NRC also provides a series of guidance documents for applicants.
Standard Review Plan
The Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (SRP-LR) provides guidance to Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff reviewers in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. These reviewers perform safety reviews of applications to renew nuclear power plant licenses in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 54. The principal purposes of the SRP-LR are to ensure the quality and uniformity of staff reviews and to present a well-defined base from which to evaluate applicant programs and activities for the period of extended operation. The SRP-LR is also intended to make information about regulatory matters widely available, to enhance communication with interested members of the public and the nuclear power industry, and to improve public and industry understanding of the staff review process. The safety review is based primarily on the information provided by the applicant in a license renewal application. Each of the individual SRP-LR sections addresses (1) who performs the review, (2) the matters that are reviewed, (3) the basis for review, (4) the way the review is accomplished, and (5) the conclusions that are sought.
Reactor License Renewal Guidance Documents
Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL)
The purpose of the GALL Report is to provide the technical basis for the Standard Review Plan for License Renewal. GALL contains the staff's generic evaluation of the existing plant programs and documents the technical basis for determining where existing programs are adequate without modification and where existing programs should be augmented for the extended period of operation. The evaluation results documented in the GALL report indicate that many of the existing programs are adequate to manage the aging effects for particular structures or components for license renewal without change. The GALL report also contains recommendations on specific areas for which existing programs should be augmented for license renewal.
