Regulatory Guide 3.3

Quality Assurance Program Requirements for Fuel Reprocessing Plants

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REGULATORY

DIRECTORATE OF REGULATORY STANDARDS

3UIDE

REGULATORY GUIDE 3.3 QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

FOR FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS

A. INTRODUCTION

This standard is adapltable to fuel reprocessing plailis as it .as prepared to satisfy the intent .tid atIiplif"y dIe Ap1 l.ndix It il 10 (iFR Part 50. "Qualiiv Assturance requLirCIletIts of AI[(' quality assurance i-CtIlatiOns and (riteria ti' Nuclear Po*evr Plants and F'tcl RIeprocessine prnvides gcneral requirements and guidance for It lants." eslablishes qualiiy assmuance tequireinntl11 mr establislhmient and execution of quality assuratnce theI designl. constiuctiOn.and operaitioolIfnuclear power prgtgra ins.

plant and Ibudl reprocessing plant structtures. systetms and conilionents. Thk regLulatory guide describes an acceptable iethod otf'coplyintg with the Comnmnission's

C. REGULATORY POSITION

regulations with regard it )verall quality assurance program requirenents t'tr fuel reprocessing plants.

Thle general requLiremen*s and Muidelines for establishing and executing quality assurance programs

B. DISCUSSION

for nuclear power plants which are included in ANSI

N45.2 -197 I. "Quality Assurance Program Requirements Stilahnimit lte N45-3. Nuclear Oiullily Assutrance for Ntclear Power Plants' may be adapted to fuel Standards" ( Iornmerly ad liot Committee N45-3.7) of the reprocessing plants and a:'e generally acceptable and Anerican National Standards Inslisute. Standards provide ati adequate basis for complying with the Conitmitlce N45. React or Plants and Their Mtaintenance.

program requirements of Appendix B it) 10 CFR Part under the spoinsorship of the American Sociely of

50. applicable to fuel reprocessing plants. When adapting Mechanical Itnoineers. has develoled a standard which ANSI N45.2-1971 to fuel reprocessing plants the term includes general requirenienis and guidance for the establishlnent and cxeculion of qualiiy assurance fuel reprocessing plants should be substituted as applicable wherever specific reference is made to the programs during tlie design. construction; and ofpetation phases. of nuclear power plants. This standard was term nuclear power planils).

approoved by the American National Standards Committee N45 and its Secretariat. and it was subsequently approved and designated N45.2-19171 by Co'pies mal. ie otrai. cd front tihe, A et ic: S ciet,0 ti the Aluerican National Standards Institute on October ,Medharlic'd E..ngirneers, Unitfled FI-nincerhig C,,.nler. 345 F~ast 471Ih Street. New Yo~rk. N.Y. 1~0017.

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