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Rule2023-14603

Regulatory Guide: Performance-Based Containment Leak-Test Program

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Published
July 12, 2023

Issuing agencies

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Abstract

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide (RG), 1.163, "Performance-Based Containment Leak-Test Program." This RG provides guidance on an acceptable performance-based leak-test program and leakage rate test methods, procedures, and analyses that may be used to comply with "Option B--Performance-Based Requirements" in NRC regulations for primary reactor containment leakage testing for water-cooled power reactors.

Indexed from Federal Register on July 12, 2023.

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