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Safety Evaluation Reports Concerning the Revised Basis for QA Programs for Operating Reactors (including Calibration Services) and New Reactor Licensing Activities

• Adoption of ASME NQA-1-1994
• Calibration Services
• New Reactor QA Program Reviews

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Adoption of ASME NQA-1-1994

For several licensees, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved changing the licensing basis from ANSI N45.2, ''Quality Assurance Program Requirements for Nuclear Power Plants," to NQA-1-1994, "Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications." Part II of NQA-1-1994 sets forth programmatic requirements for establishing and executing quality assurance programs for the siting, design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. To augment those requirements, Part II of NQA-1-1994 sets forth non-programmatic quality assurance requirements for planning and executing identified tasks during the fabrication, construction, modification, repair, maintenance, and testing of structures, systems, and components for nuclear facilities. The guidance provided by Parts I and II of NQA-1-1994 is similar to that provided by the ANSI N45.2 daughter standards developed in the 1970s and early 1980s. The licensees in question proposed to adopt NQA-1-1994 in lieu of certain current commitments to ANSI N45.2 daughter standards.

The bases for staff approval of the proposed change are documented in the following safety evaluation reports:

• Exelon Generation Company and Amergen Energy Company
• Nuclear Management Company 5
• Dominion Nuclear Connecticut and Virginia Electric & Power Company
• Constellation Generation Group
• Florida Power & Light Company
• Southern Nuclear Operating Company

Calibration Services

The NRC approved the NVLAP/A2LA third-party accreditation of calibration laboratories, in lieu of a commercial-grade survey or in-process surveillance for Arizona Public Service Company in a letter dated September 28, 2005. The alternative method for qualifying the calibration supplier and accepting its calibration services would be applied only to domestic commercial-grade calibration services, as defined by Title 10, Part 21, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 21), "Reporting of Defects and Noncompliance."

• NRC Recognition of ACLASS Accreditation Services as a domestic signatory to the ILAC MRA
  
  
• NRC Recognition of Laboratory Accreditation Bureau (L-A-B) as a domestic signatory to the ILAC MRA
  
  
• NRC Recognition of International Accreditation Service, Inc. as a domestic signatory to the ILAC MRA

New Reactor QA Program Reviews

The NRC reviewed and approved QA-related topical reports for potential applicants using the guidance in Standard Review Plan (SRP) 17.5. The bases for staff approval are documented in the following safety evaluation reports:

• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Topical Report PQD-HD-19005, Revision 1, "Quality Assurance Program (QAP) Description for Design Certification of the US-APWR"
  
  
• Bechtel Nuclear Topical Report (TR), BQ-TOP-1, 2007 Edition, Revision 1, "Quality Assurance Program For Nuclear Power Plants"
  
  
• Areva NP, Inc., "QA Program Description for Design Certification of the U.S. EPR"
  
  
• Nuclear Energy Institute, "QA Program Description Template for ESP and COL Licensing Activities"
• UniStar Nuclear, "QA Program Description for Early Site Permit (ESP), Combined License (COL), Construction, Pre-Operation, and/or Operation Activities" (corrected pages associated with the UniStar submittal)

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