scope:

This standard provides requirements and recommendations for an administrative controls and quality assurance program to help ensure that activities associated with nuclear power plant operation are carried out without undue risk to the health and safety of the public. This standard applies to all activities affecting those functions important to the safety of nuclear power plant structures, systems, and components. Activities included are: design changes, purchasing, fabricating, handling, shipping, storing, cleaning and decontaminating, erecting, installing, inspecting, testing, operating, maintaining, repairing, refueling, modifying and decommissioning.

This standard is not specifically intended for application to test, mobile or experimental reactors, nor reactors not subject to US. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing. Applicable sections of this standard may be used in those cases for activities similar to those addressed herein.