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NUREG-0800: STANDARD REVIEW PLAN FOR LIGHT WATER REACTORS

Why interact with NUREG-0800 here if you've already seen it before or could just read it on NRC's website? Well, in a way that resumes can not convey, here you can submit completion forms about your level of expertise on specific portions of NUREG-0800 and when Nuclear Talent Scout LLC has a client with a need for a real expert in that specific area we can use your responses to instantly prove your worth as a candidate and get you to the front of the line past so many other applicants for your next job! Here you can ask questions and see answers from a community of colleagues when (as is often the case) it is confusing how to apply this NRC guidance to your specific situation (being mindful to stay non-proprietary).
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NUREG-0800 is THE standard review plan (SRP), amongst other less used SRPs, which nearly all power reactors conformed to for decades through RG 1.70 and RG 1.206 to organize and inform the contents of their safety analysis report (SAR), which is the lion's share of an NRC license application. The SRP teaches you what the NRC is looking for to evaluate your conformance with NRC regulations and therefore what you must be sure to do (unless you devise a non-standard means of meeting the NRC regulations). A typical section covers the following for a specific area of design: Areas of Review, Review Interfaces, Requirements, Acceptance Criteria, Technical Rationale, Review Procedures, evaluation findings the staff will write into their safety evaluation report (SER), and so many useful references. If you address everything the SRP asks for in the way it asks for it, the NRC staff nearly has to approve you fast with few questions asked... but if you don't then they have to think about it and it can take them a looooong time to think about sticking out their neck to say your non-standard approach is ok. 

Nuclear power people often define and speak of their careers in relation to the chapter or section of NUREG-0800 that their work was associated with (e.g., 'I'm a chapter 15 guy' if they performed safety analysis or 'I'm a chapter 7 girl' if they do I&C). While the new RG 1.253 related to non-light water reactor NRC license applications has introduced a new chapter numbering scheme that may someday eliminate the aforementioned manner of speaking, NUREG-0800 will remain a strong point of reference and is indeed often pointed to by RG 1.253... so just because you're not a light water reactor doesn't mean you can escape NUREG-0800 and nor should you want to escape it's amazing information.