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The Nuclear Electrical Engineer

An educational resource for electrical engineers in the nuclear power industry

Here you can find design tips on technical skills like cable and breaker sizing, short-circuit evaluations and more, PLUS deep-dive analysis of nuclear-specific topics like design basis, Tech Specs, UFSARs, and safety-related SSCs — built from primary source documents.

Design Basis · Feature

The General Design Criteria

John Livingston
December 9, 2014 · 1 min read

The NRC established minimum design criteria, called the General Design Criteria (GDC), which every nuclear plant must incorporate. Those are located in Appendix A of 10CFR50. Those design criteria help formulate a plant’s design basis, which show up in the final engineering drawings (single-line diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, etc). That design basis must be documented in the licensing basis documents (LBDs) that are submitted to the NRC.