Equipment Qualification for Nuclear Installations.

• Superior document: IAEA Safety Standards Series
• Author: IAEA.
• Place / Publishing House: Vienna : : IAEA,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IAEA Safety Standards Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (74 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Background (1.1-1.4) -- Objective (1.5, 1.6) -- Scope (1.7-1.14) -- Structure (1.15, 1.16) -- 2. CONCEPTS AND PROCESS OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- Basic concept of equipment qualification (2.1-2.12) -- Overview of the equipment qualification process (2.13) -- Qualified life (2.14-2.17) -- Qualification methods (2.18) -- Preservation of equipment qualification (2.19, 2.20) -- Management system (2.21-2.25) -- Documentation (2.26-2.33) -- Training for equipment qualification (2.34-2.36) -- 3. DESIGN INPUTS FOR EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- General (3.1) -- Identification of equipment performance requirements (3.2-3.5) -- Identification of service conditions (3.6-3.30) -- Preliminary suitability assessment (3.31-3.34) -- 4. ESTABLISHING EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION (4.1, 4.2) -- Qualification by type testing (4.3-4.44) -- Qualification by analysis (4.45-4.49) -- Qualification by operating experience (4.50-4.53) -- Combined methods (4.54-4.56) -- Assessment of equipment capability for design extension conditions with core melting (4.57-4.62) -- 5. PRESERVATION OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- General (5.1-5.12) -- Ageing effects and qualified life (5.13-5.17) -- Monitoring of environmental conditions (5.18-5.21) -- Monitoring the condition of qualified equipment (5.22-5.27) -- Periodic surveillance of qualified equipment (5.28, 5.29) -- Maintenance relating to qualified equipment (5.30-5.32) -- Protective barriers for qualified equipment (5.33, 5.34) -- Procurement and storage of qualified equipment (5.35-5.42) -- Reassessment of the qualified life of equipment (5.43-5.48) -- 6. EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION programme (6.1-6.5) -- 7. INTEGRATION OF EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION INTO SAFETY PROGRAMMES AND PROCESSES -- Interfaces between the equipment qualification programme and other programmes (7.1).

Safety analysis report (7.2) -- Modifications to nuclear installations (7.3-7.6) -- REFERENCES -- Annex INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS RELATING TO EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION -- DEFINITIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS TO DRAFTING AND REVIEW.