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Scope and applicability

This standard provides requirements and recommendations for administrative controls and the owners' 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 provides requirements for implementing quality assurance programs consistent with requirements of Code of Federal Regulations, Title 10, Part 50, Appendix B [1].¹⁾

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

¹⁾ Numbers in brackets refer to corresponding numbers in Sec. 4, "References."

Purpose

This standard contains criteria for administrative controls and quality assurance for nuclear power plants during the operational phase of plant life. This phase is generally considered to commence prior to fuel loading, although certain initial construction activities may extend past fuel loading. Owner organizations are expected to identify those activities that fall in these overlapping time periods and are expected to specify whether the activities are to be considered as operational or as construction activities. This phase continues until the operating license is withdrawn.

The administrative controls and quality assurance provisions of this standard are intended to promote safe, reliable, and efficient plant operation. This standard can be applied to other activities consistent with the degree to which those activities affect plant reliability. In keeping with this intent, the provisions in this standard can be applied to operational activities other than those specified in the Scope, consistent with the degree to which those activities affect these functions, compliance with federal regulations specifying radiation dose and contamination criteria, or plant reliability. Applicable portions of this standard can also be used for activities at reactors specifically excluded in the Scope.

This standard incorporates criteria that permit f lexibility so they can be adapted to varying administrative practices among organizations operating nuclear power plants.