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N290.0-11
October 2011
Title: General requirements for safety systems of nuclear power plants
Pagination: 33 pages (viii preliminary and 25 text), each dated October 2011
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© Canadian Standards Association General requirements for safety systems of nuclear power plants
Technical Committee on Reactor Control Systems, Safety Systems, and Instrumentation of Nuclear Power Plants v
Subcommittee on Emergency Core Cooling Systems of Nuclear Power Plants vii
Preface viii
Scope 1
Reference publications 1
Definitions and abbreviations 3
Definitions 3
Abbreviations 6
General safety system requirements 6
General 6
Plant states 6
System operating states 6
General 6
Poised states 6
General design requirements 7
Reliability 7
General 7
Reliability analysis 7
Separation and independence 8
Single failure criteria 8
Fail-safe 9
Safety support systems 9
General 9
Power supply 9
Instrument air supply 10
Ventilation systems 10
Pressure-retaining SSCs 10
Instrumentation, control, and monitoring 10
Selection of instrumentation 10
Instrumentation and control 11
System performance 12
Equipment qualification 13
Environmental qualification 13
Seismic qualification 13
Ageing 13
Event-generated hazards 14
BDBAs 14
Dynamic piping effects 14
Human factors 14
Fire protection 15
System health monitoring 15
Operability 16
Maintainability 16
Maintenance program 17
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N290.0-11 © Canadian Standards Association
General 17
Surveillance 17
Maintenance 17
Testing 18
General 18
Functional testing 18
Post-maintenance testing 19
Commissioning 19
Sharing within a unit 19
Shared SSCs 19
Shared instrumentation 19
Sharing between units 20
Documentation 20
Design documentation 20
SOE documents 21
Operational documents 21
History docket(s) 22
Operational history 22
Annexes
A (informative) — Guidance on plant life maintenance 23
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