Complying with GDC 17 and 18 – a survey of IEEE Std. 308
The NRC requires nuclear plants to have both onsite and offsite power systems available to supply safety-related equipment. It also requires that this equipment…
Design Basis
Archive
Tag: general design criteria
Class 1E circuit independence – a summary of IEEE 384-1992
Class 1E circuits must be independent from circuits of other categories. Understanding IEEE 384-1992 is vital to understanding the NRC’s circuit separation and isolation…
Design Basis
Redundancy and the single-failure criterion
“Redundant” means having a second source of power or piece of equipment that acts as a backup in case the first fails to operate…
Design Basis
The UFSAR
One of the most popular of the licensing basis documents that you’ll work with (or hear about) is the UFSAR. It stands for updated…
Licensing Basis
The General Design Criteria
The NRC established minimum design criteria, called the General Design Criteria (GDC), which every nuclear plant must incorporate. Those are located in Appendix A…
Design Basis