Nuclear Regulatory Commission December 14, 2020 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is re-issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1288 (Revision 1), ``Plant-Specific, Risk-Informed Decisionmaking for Inservice Inspection of Piping.'' This proposed guide is Revision 2 of regulatory guide (RG) 1.178, ``An Approach for Plant-Specific, Risk-Informed Decisionmaking for Inservice Inspection of Piping.'' It incorporates information to be consistent with the terminology and defense-in-depth philosophy provided in RG 1.174, ``An Approach for Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Risk-Informed Decisions on Plant-Specific Changes to the Licensing Basis,'' as well as to endorse the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code Case N-716-1, ``Alternative Classification and Examination Requirements, Section XI, Division 1.''