Problems with industry's implementation of requirements for upgrading emergency operating procedures: a regulatory perspective
Description
Following the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established requirements for the commercial nuclear power industry to upgrade the adequacy of plant procedures, including emergency operating procedures (EOPs). These requirements specified in Generic Letter 82-33, Supplement 1 to NUREG-0737- Requirements for Emergency Response Capability, included reanalyzing transients and accidents, preparing technical guidelines and submitting Procedures Generation Packages (PGPs) from which plants could develop function-oriented, human factored EOPs. Generic Letter 82-33 also indicated that the staff would audit upgraded EOPs at selected facilities. This paper reviews the historical background of the requirements for upgrading EOPs and the industry's efforts to meet these requirements, assesses the success of the PGP concept as a technique for ensuring that quality EOPs are developed and implemented by the industry, and offers several options for improving the effort to upgrade EOPs
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission fourteenth water reactor safety information meeting. Volume 1. Plenary session, severe accident sequence analysis, risk analysis/PRA applications, reference plant risk analysis - NUREG-1150, innovative concepts for increased safety of advanced power reactors
- Journal Page Range
- p. 109-124.
- Report number
- NUREG/CP--0082-Vol.1
Conference
- Title
- 14. water reactor safety information meeting.
- Dates
- 27-31 Oct 1986.
- Place
- Gaithersburg, MD (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19002064
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BWR TYPE REACTORS; EMERGENCY PLANS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR OPERATION; REACTOR SAFETY; TRANSIENTS; US NRC
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OPERATION; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; SAFETY; THERMAL REACTORS; US ORGANIZATIONS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS