10CFR50 App. B Criterion 1-6
10CFR50 App. B Criterion 7-12
10CFR50 App. B Criterion 13-18
Engineering and Quality Assurance
Standards and Expectations
100
This Criterion is described "The organization shall identify the structures, systems and components to be covered by the program. This includes the organizations and their designated functions."
What is "II. Quality Assurance Program?"
100
This Criterion is described "Measures shall be established to assure that special processes, including welding, heat treating, and nondestructive testing, are controlled and accomplished by qualified personnel using qualified procedures in accordance with applicable codes, standards, specifications, criteria, and other special requirements."
What is "IX. Control of Special Processes?"
100
This Criterion is described "Measures shall be established to control materials, parts, or components which do not conform to requirements in order to prevent their inadvertent use or installation."
What is "XV. Nonconforming Materials, Parts, or Components?"
100
This Engineering Group implements "10CFR50 Appendix B Criterion III. Design Control" through maintaining the design/licensing bases of PVNGS.
What is "Design Engineering?"
100
The Safety Culture principle which delineates "Training, self-assessments, corrective actions and benchmarking are used to stimulate learning and improve performance."
What is "7. Organizational learning is embraced?"
200
This Criterion is described "Measures shall be established to assure that applicable regulatory requirements, design bases, and other requirements which are necessary to assure adequate quality are suitably included or referenced in the documents for procurement of material, equipment, and services, whether purchased by the applicant or by its contractors or subcontractors."
What is "IV. Procurement Document Control?"
200
This Criterion is described "A test program shall be established to assure that all testing required to demonstrate that structures, systems, and components will perform satisfactorily in service is identified and performed in accordance with written test procedures which incorporate the requirements and acceptance limits contained in applicable design documents."
What is "XI. Test Control?"
200
This Criterion is described "Sufficient records shall be maintained to furnish evidence of activities affecting quality. The records shall include at least the following: Operating logs and the results of reviews, inspections, tests, audits, monitoring of work performance, and materials analyses."
What is "XVII. Quality Assurance Records?"
200
This Engineering Group implements "10CFR50 Appendix B Criterion IV. Procurement Document Control" through procurement of nuclear fuel materials and services procurement.
What is "Fuels Engineering?"
200
The Four elements of Safety.
What are "Safety Culture, Nuclear Safety, Industrial Safety, and Radiological Safety?"
300
The Criterion is described "Changes to documents shall be reviewed and approved by the same organizations that performed the original review and approval unless the applicant designates another responsible organization."
What is "VI. Document Control?"
300
This Criterion is described "Measures shall be established to assure that tools, gages, instruments, and other measuring and testing devices used in activities affecting quality are properly controlled, calibrated, and adjusted at specified periods to maintain accuracy within necessary limits."
What is "XII. Control of Measuring and Test Equipment?"
300
This Criterion is described "A comprehensive system of planned and periodic audits shall be carried out to verify compliance with all aspects of the quality assurance program and to determine the effectiveness of the program."
What is "XVIII. Audits?"
300
This Engineering Group implements "10CFR50 Appendix B Criterion XI. Test Control" through preparation of Design Validation Testing (DVT).
What is "Design Engineering?"
300
This Human Performance Tool is intended to improve a worker's situational awareness and is performed upon arriving at the physical work location, after extended breaks or work interruptions, or during walk downs.
What is "a Two-Minute Drill?"
400
This criterion is described "Clearly establish and delineate in writing the authority and duties of persons or organizations performing activities that affect safety related activities. These activities including performing and obtaining quality objectives."
What is "I. Organization"
400
This Criterion is described "Measures shall be established to assure that purchased material, equipment, and services, whether purchased directly or through contractors and subcontractors, conform to the procurement documents. These measures shall include provisions, as appropriate, for source evaluation and selection, objective evidence of quality furnished by the contractor or subcontractor, inspection at the contractor or subcontractor source, and examination of products upon delivery."
What is "VII. Control of Purchased Material, Equipment, and Services?"
400
This Criterion is described "Measures shall also be established for indicating the operating status of structures, systems, and components of the nuclear power plant or fuel reprocessing plant, such as by tagging valves and switches, to prevent inadvertent operation."
What is "XIV. Inspection, Test, and Operating Status?"
400
This Engineering Group implements "10CFR50 Appendix B Criterion IX. Control of Special Processes" through implementation of Engineering Programs such as Inservice Inspections (ISI) and Inservice Testing (IST).
What is "Plant Engineering?"
400
The Phonetic Alphabet breakdown for "PVNGS."
What is "Papa Victor November Golf Sierra?"
500
This Criterion is described "Measures shall be established to assure that applicable regulatory requirements and the design basis, as defined in ยง 50.2 and as specified in the license application, for those structures, systems, and components to which this appendix applies are correctly translated into specifications, drawings, procedures, and instructions."
What is "III. Design Control?"
500
This Criterion is described "Examinations, measurements, or tests of material or products processed shall be performed for each work operation where necessary to assure quality."
What is "X. Inspection?"
500
This Criterion is described "In the case of significant conditions adverse to quality, the measures shall assure that the cause of the condition is determined and corrective action taken to preclude repetition."
What is "XVI. Corrective Action?"
500
This Engineering Group implements "10CFR50 Appendix B Criterion III. Design Control" by ensuring that a supportable core design is delivered to the plant.
What is "Fuels Engineering?"
500
Fire represents this percentage contribution to core damage frequency.
What is "65%?"
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