DOE-STD-3009-94 Chg Notice 2, Preparation Guide for U.S. Department of Energy Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analyses
Functional areas: Documented Safety Analysis, Preparation Guide, Nonreactor Nuclear Facility
This Standard describes a DSA preparation method that is acceptable to the DOE as delineated for those specific facilities listed in Table 2 of Appendix A, “General Statement of Safety Basis Policy”, to Subpart B, “Safety Basis Requirements”, of 10 CFR 830. It was developed to assist Hazard Category 2 and 3 facilities. in preparing SARs
that will satisfy the requirements of 10 CFR 830. Hazard Category 1 facilities are typically expected to be Category A reactors for which extensive precedents for SARs already exist. Superseded by Change Notice 3.
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Section 1
NOT MEASUREMENT
SENSITIVE
DOE-STD-3009-94
July 1994
CHANGE NOTICE NO. 1
January 2000
CHANGE NOTICE NO. 2
April 2002
DOE STANDARD
PREPARATION GUIDE FOR U.S
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NONREACTOR
NUCLEAR FACILITY DOCUMENTED
SAFETY ANALYSES
U.S. Department of Energy AREA SAFT
Washington, DC 20585
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
TSTS
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Change Notice No. 2 DOE-STD-3009-94
April 2002
Preparation Guide for U.S. Department of Energy
Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analyses
Table of Changes
Page / Section Change
Whole document Requirements from DOE Order 5480.23 were
replaced by those from 10 CFR 830.
Whole document Terminology was made consistent with 10
CFR 830.
Whole document References to DOE Orders 5480.21, 5480.22,
and 5480.23 were replaced by references to
10 CFR 830.
Whole document References to specific revision numbers of
documents were deleted since most recent
edition of the document applies.
Whole document References to other documents were updated.
Whole document The term “Evaluation Guidelines” was
changed to “Evaluation Guideline”.
vii / Foreword National Nuclear Security Administration was
added as an applicable organization.
vii / Foreword Address for beneficial comments was
changed.
13 / Table I-1 Table I-1 was deleted because it refers to the
5480.23 Order, rather than the 10 CFR 830
rule.
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January 2000
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Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Safety Analysis Reports
Page / Section Change
p. xv / Table of Contents Appendix A information inserted.
p. xix / Definitions Appendix A referenced under Evaluation
guidelines.
p. 1 / Introduction Appendix A referenced under Accident
Analysis.
p. 11 / Introduction Appendix A referenced at the end of Safety-
class structures, systems, and components.
p. 54 / Chapter 3 Appendix A referenced in 3.3.2.3.5 Accident
Selection, under Figure 3-4, Flowchart for
performing an accident analysis.
p. A-1 / Appendix A Insert Appendix A after page 126
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Foreword
1. This Department of Energy (DOE) Standard (STD) has been approved for use
by the Department of Energy, including the National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA), and its contractors. Any reference to a document
(e.g., DOE standards, orders, and guides) refers to the most current version.)
2. Beneficial comments (recommendations, additions, and deletions) and any
pertinent data that may be of use in improving this document should be
addressed to either one or both of the following:
Dae Y. Chung Richard M. Stark
Office of Environment, Safety, and Office of Nuclear and Facility Safety
Health Policy
NA-53 EH-53, 270CC
U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Department of Energy
19901 Germantown Road 19901 Germantown Road
Germantown, MD 20874 Germantown, MD 20874
Phone: (301) 903-3968 Phone: (301) 903-4407
Facsimile: (301) 903-7065 Facsimile: (301) 903-6172
Email: Dae.Chung@nnsa.doe.gov Email: Richard.Stark@eh.doe.gov
Section 2
3. The 10 CFR 830 Rule imposes requirements for nuclear facility documented
safety analyses (DSAs). The Department of Energy recognizes a benefit from
guidance on the interpretation and implementation of this Order to provide
safety assurance for all relevant facilities. This Standard represents a “safe
harbor” for the preparation of a DSA.
The Department of Energy safety management approach is built on a
hierarchy of documents. At the top are safety policies. Next come safety
requirements (Orders and Rules). Below these are safety guides that clarify
the requirements. Technical standards, such as this document, support the
guides by providing additional guidance into how the requirements should be
met.
DOE-STD-3009, “Preparation Guide for U.S. Department of Energy
Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analyses,” was prepared to
be consistent with the Rule requirements. To ensure that DSA developments
will be used in compliance with the Rule, it is advised that this Standard be
used in conjunction with the Rule.
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Guiding Principles
This Standard incorporates and integrates many different approaches regarding DSA
format and content. To ensure a consistent application of this Standard among users, the
following guiding principles are provided.
• The focus of this Standard is primarily on Hazard Category 2 and Hazard
Category 3 facilities.
• Hazard analysis and accident analysis are merged into one chapter (Chapter 3)
to ensure that the proper emphasis is placed on identification and analysis of
hazards. The hazard analysis distinguishes when accident analysis is required
as a function of potential offsite consequence. Guidance for hazard and
accident analysis is not based on probabilistic risk assessment (PRA).
• Defense in depth, worker safety, and environmental issues are identified in the
hazard analysis and carried forward to other DSA chapters.
• Defense in depth as discussed in this Standard, consists of two components:
- Equipment and administrative features providing preventive or mitigative
functions so that multiple features are relied on for prevention or
mitigation to a degree proportional to the hazard potential.
- Integrated safety management programs that control and discipline
operations.
• Guidance is provided for evaluating the safety of a facility for which
documentable, deterministic design basis accidents (DBAs) do not exist in
order to establish bounding accidents (derivative design basis accidents) that
envelope the safety of existing facilities. Guidance is also provided on the
treatment of beyond design basis accidents.
• Distinction is made between “safety-class (SC) structures, systems, and
components (SSCs),” and “safety-significant (SS) structures, systems, and
components,” and the balance of facility structures, systems, and components.
Safety-class structures, systems, and components are related to public
protection and are defined by comparison with the numerical Evaluation
Guideline (EG). (See Appendix A of this Standard for additional guidance.)
Safety-significant structures, systems, and components are identified for
specific aspects of defense in depth and worker safety as determined by the
hazard analysis. Specific definitions are provided for these two terms.
• Consequences from normal operations are addressed in the Radiation
Protection, Hazardous Material Protection, and Waste Management chapters.
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Section 3
• Guidance is provided in each chapter on the application of the graded
approach.
• A common DSA format (chapter, title, and organization) for all nonreactor
nuclear facilities is desirable but not essential. A table is to be provided by the
preparer that indicates where the DSA requirements of 10 CFR 830 are
addressed. Content needs to be flexible to allow for different facility types,
hazard categories, and other grading factors.
• Facility descriptive material is intentionally split to emphasize structures,
systems, and components of major significance:
- Chapter 2, “Facility Description,” provides a brief, integrated overview of
the facility structures, systems, and components.
- Chapter 4, “Safety Structures, Systems, and Components,” provides
detailed information only for those structures, systems, and components
that are safety class and safety significant. This application of the graded
approach will provide for a significant reduction of DSA volume, while
maintaining a focus on safety.
• The programmatic chapters, including Chapter 6-17 provide a summary
description of the key features of the various safety programs as they related
to the facility being analyzed. These chapters are not meant to be used as the
vehicle for the determination of adequacy of these programs.
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Contents
List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Abbreviations and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Introduction to DOE-STD-3009
Purpose of DOE-STD-3009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
DSA Preparation Conceptual Basis and Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Worker Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Defense in Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Safety Management Programmatic Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
TSR and SSC Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hazard Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Accident Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Application of Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
DSA Preparation Guidance
Executive Summary
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Content Guidance
Section 4
E.1 Facility Background and Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
E.2 Facility Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
E.3 Facility Hazard Categorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
E.4 Safety Analysis Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
E.5 Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
E.6 Safety Analysis Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
E.7 DSA Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
CHAPTER ONE
Site Characteristics
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Content Guidance
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.3 Site Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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1.3.1 Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.3.2 Demography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.4 Environmental Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.4.1 Meteorology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.4.2 Hydrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.4.3 Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.5 Natural Event Accident Initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.6 Man-made External Accident Initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.7 Nearby Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.8 Validity of Existing Environmental Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
CHAPTER TWO
Facility Description
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Content Guidance
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.3 Facility Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.4 Facility Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.5 Process Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.6 Confinement Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.7 Safety Support Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.8 Utility Distribution Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.9 Auxiliary Systems and Support Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 5
CHAPTER THREE
Hazard and Accident Analyses
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Content Guidance
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.3 Hazard Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.3.1 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.3.1.1 Hazard Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.3.1.2 Hazard Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.3.2 Hazard Analysis Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.3.2.1 Hazard Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.3.2.2 Hazard Categorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.3.2.3 Hazard Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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3.3.2.3.1 Planned Design and Operational Safety
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3.3.2.3.2 Defense in Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3.3.2.3.3 Worker Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.3.2.3.4 Environmental Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.3.2.3.5 Accident Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.4 Accident Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.4.1 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.4.2 Design Basis Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.4.2.X [Applicable DBA] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
3.4.2.X.1 Scenario Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
3.4.2.X.2 Source Term Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.4.2.X.3 Consequence Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.4.2.X.4 Comparison to the Evaluation Guideline 57
3.4.2.X.5 Summary of Safety-Class SSCs and TSR
Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.4.3 Beyond Design Basis Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
CHAPTER FOUR
Safety Structures, Systems, and Components
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Content Guidance
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.3 Safety-class Systems, Structures, and Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.3.X [Applicable Safety-class System, Structure, or Component] . . . . . 61
4.3.X.1 Safety Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.3.X.2 System Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.3.X.3 Functional Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.3.X.4 System Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.3.X.5 Controls (TSRs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 6
4.4 Safety-significant Structures, Systems, and Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.4.X [Applicable Safety-significant System, Structure, or Component]. 64
4.4.X.1 Safety Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.4.X.2 System Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.4.X.3 Functional Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.4.X.4 System Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.4.X.5 Controls (TSRs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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CHAPTER FIVE
Derivation of Technical Safety Requirements
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Content Guidance
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.3 TSR Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.4 Derivation of Facility Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.5 TSR Derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.5.X [Applicable Hazard / Feature / TSR “X”] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.5.X.1 Safety Limits, Limited Control Settings, and Limiting
Conditions for Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.5.X.2 Surveillance Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.5.X.3 Administrative Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.6 Design Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5.7 Interface with TSRs from Other Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
CHAPTER SIX
Prevention of Inadvertent Criticality
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Content Guidance
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
6.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.3 Criticality Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.4 Criticality Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.4.1 Engineering Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.4.2 Administrative Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.4.3 Application of Double Contingency Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.5 Criticality Safety Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
6.5.1 Criticality Safety Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.5.2 Criticality Safety Plans and Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.5.3 Criticality Safety Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
6.5.4 Determination of Operational Nuclear Criticality Limits . . . . . . . . 76
6.5.5 Criticality Safety Inspections/Audits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
6.5.6 Criticality Infraction Reporting and Follow-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Section 7
6.6 Criticality Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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CHAPTER SEVEN
Radiation Protection
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Content Guidance
7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.3 Radiation Protection Program and Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.4 ALARA Policy and Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.5 Radiation Protection Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.6 Radiation Exposure Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.6.1 Administrative Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.6.2 Radiological Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.6.3 Dosimetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.6.4 Respiratory Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.7 Radiological Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.8 Radiological Protection Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.9 Radiological Protection Record Keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.10 Occupational Radiation Exposures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
CHAPTER EIGHT
Hazardous Material Protection
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Content Guidance
8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
8.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
8.3 Hazardous Material Protection Program and Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
8.4 The ALARA Policy and Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
8.5 Hazardous Material Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.6 Hazardous Material Exposure Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.6.1 Hazardous Material Identification Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.6.2 Administrative Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.6.3 Occupational Medicine Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.6.4 Respiratory Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.7 Hazardous Material Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.8 Hazardous Material Protection Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.9 Hazardous Material Protection Record Keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.10 Hazard Communication Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.11 Occupational Chemical Exposures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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CHAPTER NINE
Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Management
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Content Guidance
9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
9.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
9.3 Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Management Program and Organization 90
9.4 Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Streams and Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
9.4.1 Waste Management Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
9.4.2 Waste Sources and Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
9.4.3 Waste Handling or Treatment Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
CHAPTER TEN
Initial Testing, In-Service Surveillance, and
Maintenance
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Content Guidance
10.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
10.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
10.3 Initial Testing Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
10.4 In-Service Surveillance Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
10.5 Maintenance Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Occupational Safety
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Content Guidance
11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
11.2 Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
11.3 Conduct of Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
11.4 Fire Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
11.4.1 Fire Hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
11.4.2 Fire Protection Program and Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
11.4.3 Combustible Loading Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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11.4.4 Fire Fighting Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
11.4.5 Fire Fighting Readiness Assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
CHAPTER TWELVE
Procedures and Training
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Content Guidance
Section 9
12.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
12.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
12.3 Procedure Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
12.3.1 Development of Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
12.3.2 Maintenance of Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
12.4 Training Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
12.4.1 Development of Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
12.4.2 Maintenance of Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
12.4.3 Modification of Training Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Human Factors
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Content Guidance
13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
13.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
13.3 Human Factors Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
13.4 Identification of Human-Machine Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
13.5 Optimization of Human-Machine Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Quality Assurance
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Content Guidance
14.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
14.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
14.3 Quality Assurance Program Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
14.4 Quality Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
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14.5 Documents and Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
14.6 Quality Assurance Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
14.6.1 Work Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
14.6.2 Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
14.6.3 Procurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
14.6.4 Inspection and Testing for Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
14.6.5 Independent Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 107
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Emergency Preparedness Program
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Section 10
Content Guidance
15.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
15.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
15.3 Scope of Emergency Preparedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
15.4 Emergency Preparedness Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
15.4.1 Emergency Response Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
15.4.2 Assessment Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
15.4.3 Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
15.4.4 Emergency Facilities and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
15.4.5 Protective Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
15.4.6 Training and Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
15.4.7 Recovery and Reentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Provisions for Decontamination and Decommissioning
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Content Guidance
16.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
16.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
16.3 Description of Conceptual Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Management, Organization, & Industrial Safety
Provisions
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Application of the Graded Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
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17.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
17.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
17.3 Organizational Structure, Responsibilities and Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
17.3.1 Organization Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
17.3.2 Organizational Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
17.3.3 Staffing and Qualifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
17.4 Safety Management Policies and Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
17.4.1 Safety Review and Performance Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
17.4.2 Configuration and Document Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
17.4.3 Occurrence Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
17.4.4 Safety Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Appendix A, Evaluation Guideline
A.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-3
A.2 Evaluation Guideline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-3
A.3 Dose Comparison Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-4
Section 11
A.3.1 Scenario Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-5
A.3.2 Source Term Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-7
A.3.3 Dose Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-8
A.4 Functional Classification Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-9
A.5 Additional Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-10
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List of Figures
Fig. I-1 DSA scope and integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fig. I-2 DSA preparation process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fig. 3-1 Flowchart for performing a hazard analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Fig. 3-2 Worker safety evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Fig. 3-3 A three-by-three likelihood and
consequence ranking matrix for hazard evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Fig. 3-4 Flowchart for performing an accident analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
List of Tables
Table 3-1 Example process hazard analysis worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Table 3-2 Hazard analysis worksheet based on failure modes and effects
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Table 3-3 Qualitative severity classification table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Table 3-4 Qualitative likelihood classification table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Table 3-5 Qualitative ranking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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Definitions
Notes: Origins of the definitions are indicated by references shown in “[ ]” (brackets). If
no reference is listed, the definition originates in this Preparation Guide and is unique to
its application.
Accident. An unplanned sequence of events that results in undesirable consequences.
Accident analysis. Accident analysis has historically consisted of the formal
development of numerical estimates of the expected consequence and probability of
potential accidents associated with a facility. For the purposes of implementing this
Standard, accident analysis is a follow-on effort to the hazard analysis, not a
fundamentally new examination requiring extensive original work. As such, it requires
documentation of the basis for assignment to a given likelihood of occurrence range in
hazard analysis and performance of a formally documented consequence analysis.
Consequences are compared with the Evaluation Guideline to identify safety-class
structures, systems, and components.
Administrative controls (ACs). Provisions relating to organization and management
procedures, record keeping, assessment, and reporting necessary to ensure the safe
operation of a facility. [10 CFR 830]
Organization and management, procedures, recordkeeping, assessment, and reporting
necessary to ensure safe operation of a facility consistent with the technical safety
requirement. In general, the administrative controls section addresses (1) the
requirements associated with administrative controls, (including those for reporting
violations of the technical safety requirement); (2) the staffing requirements for facility
positions important to safe conduct of the facility; and (3) the commitments to the safety
management programs identified in the documented safety analysis as necessary
components of the safety basis for the facility. [10 CFR 830 Appendix A]
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Beyond design basis accident. An accident of the same type as a design basis accident
(e.g., fire, earthquake, spill, explosion, etc.), but defined by parameters that exceed in
severity the parameters defined for the design basis accident. The same correlation
applies to beyond derivative design basis accidents with regard to derivative design basis
accidents.
Decommissioning. Those actions taking place after deactivation of a nuclear facility to
retire it from service and includes surveillance and maintenance, decontamination, and
dismantlement. [10 CFR 830]
Decontamination. The removal or reduction of residual radioactive and other
hazardous materials by mechanical, chemical, or other techniques to achieve a stated
objective or end condition. [10 CFR 830]
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Design basis. The set of requirements that bound the design of systems, structures, and
components within the facility. These design requirements include consideration of
safety, plant availability, efficiency, reliability, and maintainability. Some aspects of the
design basis are important to safety, although others are not.
Evaluation Guideline (EG). The radioactive material dose value that the safety analysis
evaluates against. The Evaluation Guideline is established for the purpose of identifying
and evaluating safety-class structures, systems, and components. On-site Evaluation
Guidelines are not required for adequate documentation of a safety basis utilizing the
overall process of this Standard. The Evaluation Guideline is discussed separately in
Appendix A.
Facility. Any equipment, structure, system, process, or activity that fulfills a specific
purpose. Examples include accelerators, storage areas, fusion research devices, nuclear
reactors, production or processing plants, coal conversion plants, magnetohydrodynamics
experiments, windmills, radioactive waste disposal systems and burial grounds,
environmental restoration activities, testing laboratories, research laboratories,
transportation activities and accommodations for analytical examinations of irradiated
and nonirradiated components.
For the purpose of implementing this Standard, the definition most often refers to
buildings and other structures, their functional systems and equipment, and other fixed
systems and equipment installed therein to delineate a facility. However, specific
operations and processes independent of buildings or other structures (e.g., waste
retrieval and processing, waste burial, remediation, groundwater or soil decontamination,
decommissioning) are also encompassed by this definition. The flexibility in the
definition does not extend to subdivision of physically concurrent operations having
potential energy sources that can seriously affect one another or which use common
systems fundamental to the operation (e.g., a common glovebox ventilation exhaust
header).
Fissionable materials. A nuclide capable of sustaining a neutron-induced chain reaction
(e.g., uranium-233, uranium-235, plutonium-238, plutonium-239, plutonium-241,
neptumium-237, americium-241, and curium-244). [10 CFR 830]
Graded approach. The process of ensuring that the level of analysis, documentation,
and actions used to comply with a requirement in this part are commensurate with:
(1) The relative importance to safety, safeguards, and security;
(2) The magnitude of any hazards involved;
(3) The life cycle stage of a facility;
(4) The programmatic mission of a facility;
(5) The particular characteristics of a facility;
(6) The relative importance of radiological and nonradiological hazards; and
(7) Any other relevant factor. [10 CFR 830]
Section 13
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Hazard. A source of danger (i.e., material, energy source, or operation) with the
potential to cause illness, injury, or death to personnel or damage to an operation or to the
environment (without regard for the likelihood or credibility of accident scenarios or
consequence mitigation). [10 CFR 830]
DSAs specifically examine those hazards inherent in processes and related operations
that can result in uncontrolled release of hazardous material (i.e., chemical or
radiological) or process-unique energy sources (e.g., high pressure autoclave). Standard
industrial hazards do not require DSA coverage. Standard industrial hazards such as
burns from hot objects, electrocution, falling objects, etc., are of concern only to the
degree that they can be a contributor to a significant uncontrolled release of hazardous
material (e.g., 115-volt wiring as initiator of a fire) or major energy sources such as
explosive energy.
Hazard analysis. The determination of material, system, process, and plant
characteristics that can produce undesirable consequences, followed by the assessment of
hazardous situations associated with a process or activity. Largely qualitative techniques
are used to pinpoint weaknesses in design or operation of the facility that could lead to
accidents. The hazards analysis examines the complete spectrum of potential accidents
that could expose members of the public, onsite workers, facility workers, and the
environment to hazardous materials.
Hazard categorization. Evaluation of the consequences of unmitigated releases to
categorize facilities or operations into the following hazard categories:
1. Hazard Category 1: The hazard analysis shows the potential for significant offsite
consequences.
2. Hazard Category 2: The hazard analysis shows the potential for significant onsite
consequences.
3. Hazard Category 3: The hazard analysis shows the potential for only significant
localized consequences. [10 CFR 830]
DOE-STD-1027 provides guidance and radiological threshold values for determining the
hazard category of a facility. DOE-STD-1027 interprets Hazard Category 1 facilities as
Category A reactors and other facilities designated as such by the Program Secretarial
Officer.
Hazardous material. Any solid, liquid, or gaseous material that is toxic, explosive,
flammable, corrosive, or otherwise physically or biologically threatening to health.
Candidate hazards include radioactive materials, hazardous chemicals as defined by
OSHA in 29 CFR 1910.1200 and 29 CFR 1910.1450; any material assigned a reportable
quantity value in 40 CFR 302, Table 302.4; threshold planning quantities in 40 CFR 355
Appendix A; threshold planning quantities in 29 CFR 1910.119; level of concern
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quantities in EPA’s “Technical Guidance for Hazard Analysis—Emergency Planning for
Extremely Hazardous Substances”; or materials rated as 3 or 4 in National Fire Protection
Association 704 “Identification of the Fire Hazards of Materials.”
Limiting conditions for operation (LCO). The limits that represent the lowest
functional capability or performance level of safety-related structures, systems, and
components required for safe operations. [10 CFR 830]
Limiting control settings (LCSs). Settings on safety systems that control process
variables to prevent exceeding a safety limit. [10 CFR 830]
Mitigative feature. Any structure, system, or component that serves to mitigate the
consequences of a release of hazardous materials in an accident scenario. [DOE-STD-
1027]
Section 14
Nonreactor nuclear facility. Those facilities, activities, or operations that involve, or
will involve, radioactive and/or fissionable materials in such form and quantity that a
nuclear or nuclear explosive hazard potentially exists to workers, the public, or the
environment, but does not include accelerators and their operations and does not include
activities involving only incidental use and generation of radioactive materials or
radiation such as check and calibration sources, use of radioactive sources in research and
experimental and analytical laboratory activities, electron microscopes, and X-ray
machines. [10 CFR 830]
Nuclear facility. A reactor or a nonreactor nuclear facility where an activity is
conducted for or on behalf of DOE and includes any related area, structure, facility, or
activity to the extent necessary to ensure proper implementation of the requirements
established by 10 CFR 830. [10 CFR 830]
Process Safety Management (PSM). A process or activity involving the application of
management principles as defined in 29 CFR 1910.119, “Process Safety Management of
High Hazardous Chemicals.”
Programmatic. Reference to facility specific programs or site-wide programs necessary
to ensure the safe operation of a facility. Radiation protection, hazardous material
protection, quality assurance, training, document control, and emergency preparedness
are examples of programs that provide programmatic controls to ensure safe operations.
Preventive feature. Any structure, system, or component that serves to prevent the
release of hazardous material in an accident scenario. [DOE-STD-1027]
Public. All individuals outside the DOE site boundary.
Risk. The quantitative or qualitative expression of possible loss that considers both the
probability that an event will occur and the consequences of that event.
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Safety analysis. A documented process: (1) to provide systematic identification of
hazards within a given DOE operation; (2) to describe and analyze the adequacy of the
measures taken to eliminate, control, or mitigate identified hazards; and (3) to analyze
and evaluate potential accidents and their associated risks.
Safety basis. The documented safety analysis and hazard controls that provide
reasonable assurance that a DOE nuclear facility can be operated safely in a manner that
adequately protects workers, the public, and the environment. [10 CFR 830]
Safety-class structures, systems, and components ( SC SSCs). Structures, systems, or
components including portions of process systems, whose preventive and mitigative
function is necessary to limit radioactive hazardous material exposure to the public, as
determined from the safety analyses. [10 CFR 830]
Safety limits (SLs). Limits on process variables associated with those safety-class
physical barriers, generally passive, that are necessary for the intended facility functions
and which are required to guard against the uncontrolled release of radioactive materials.
[10 CFR 830]
Safety-significant structures, systems, and components (SS SSCs). Structures,
systems, and components which are not designated as safety-class SSCs but whose
preventive or mitigative function is a major contributor to defense in depth and/or worker
safety as determined from safety analyses. [10 CFR 830]
Section 15
As a general rule of thumb, safety-significant SSC designations based on worker safety
are limited to those systems, structures, or components whose failure is estimated to
result in a prompt worker fatality or serious injuries or significant radiological or
chemical exposures to workers. The term, serious injuries, as used in this definition,
refers to medical treatment for immediately life-threatening or permanently disabling
injuries (e.g., loss of eye, loss of limb).
The general rule of thumb cited above is neither an evaluation guideline nor a
quantitative criterion. It represents a lower threshold of concern for which safety-
significant SSC designation may be warranted. Estimates of worker consequences for the
purpose of safety-significant SSC designation are not intended to require detailed
analytical modeling. Considerations should be based on engineering judgment of
possible effects and the potential added value of safety-significant SSC designation.
[DOE G 420.1-1]
[Note: Safety-significant SSC as used in this Standard distinguishes a specific category
of SSCs other than safety-class SSCs. It should not be confused with the generic
modifier “safety significant” used in DOE orders.]
Safety structures, systems, and components (safety SSCs). The set of safety-class
structures, systems, and components, and safety-significant structures, systems, and
components for a given facility. [10 CFR 830]
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Site boundary. A well-marked boundary of the property over which the owner and
operator can exercise control without the aid of outside authorities.
For the purpose of implementing this Standard, the DOE site boundary is a geographic
boundary within which public access is controlled and activities are governed by DOE
and its contractors, and not by local authorities. A public road traversing a DOE site is
considered to be within the DOE site boundary if, when necessary, DOE or the site
contractor has the capability to control the road during accident or emergency conditions.
Standard industrial hazards. Hazards that are routinely encountered in general
industry and construction, and for which national consensus codes and/or standards (e.g.,
OSHA, transportation safety) exist to guide safe design and operation without the need
for special analysis to design safe design and/or operational parameters.
Technical safety requirements (TSRs). The limits, controls, and related actions that
establish the specific parameters and requisite actions for the safe operation of a nuclear
facility and include, as appropriate for the work and the hazards identified in the
documented safety analysis for the facility: Safety limits, operating limits, surveillance
requirements, administrative and management controls, use and application provisions,
and design features, as well as a bases appendix. [10 CFR 830]
Section 16
To satisfy the intent of this Standard, he administrative equivalent of TSRs should also be
assigned for the conditions, the safe boundaries, and the management of administrative
controls necessary to ensure the safe operation of the facility and to reduce the potential
risk to the public and facility workers from uncontrolled releases of nonradiological
hazardous material or energy. Such equivalents designated for control of nonradiological
hazards are considered as important to safety as radiological TSRs, and are needed to
satisfy the overall process outlined in this Standard for controlling the broad spectrum of
hazards in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 830. Distinguishing between the
radiological TSRs and their nonradiological equivalents may be necessary due to the
potentially different regulatory enforcement structures associated with each. However,
such distinction is beyond the scope of this Standard as the DSA only provides
information to derive these controls, not formally define them. Accordingly, for the
purposes of this Standard, no distinction is made between radiological TSRs and their
nonradiological equivalents, and the term TSRs refers to both. TSRs for radiological
hazards are formally defined in the separate TSR document required by 10 CFR 830.
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
AC Administrative Controls
ALARA As Low as Reasonably Achievable
ARF Airborne Release Fraction
ARR Airborne Release Rate
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CSE Criticality Safety Evaluation
D&D Decontamination and Decommissioning
DBA Design Basis Accidents
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DOE-STD DOE Standard
DR Damage Ratio
DSA Documented Safety Analysis
EG Evaluation Guideline
EH Office of Environment, Safety and Health
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EM Office of Environmental Management
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPP Emergency Preparedness Plan
ERPG Emergency Response Planning Guideline
ES&H Environment, Safety, and Health
FHA Fire Hazards Analysis
FMEA Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
G Guide
HASP Health and Safety Plan
HAZOP Hazard and Operational Analysis
HDBK Handbook
HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air
LCO Limiting Conditions for Operation
LCS Limiting Control Setting
LPF Leakpath Factor
MAR Material at Risk
MOI Maximally-exposed Offsite Individual
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NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSR Operational Safety Requirement
P&ID Process and Instrument Drawing
PDSA Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis
PHA Preliminary Hazard Analysis
PRA Probabilistic Risk Assessment
PrHA Process Hazards Analysis
PSM Process Safety Management
QAP Quality Assurance Program
RF Respirable Fraction
SC Safety Class
SL Safety Limit
SR Surveillance Requirement
SRID Standards and Requirements Identification Documents
SS Safety Significant
SSC Structures, Systems, and Components
STD Standard
TEDE Total Effective Dose Equivalent
TSR Technical Safety Requirements
USQ Unreviewed Safety Question
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Introduction
This introduction addresses the following major topics related to implementing the
requirements of 10 CFR 830.
• Purpose of DOE-STD-3009—Indicates scope and general applicability of
this Standard.
Section 17
• DSA Preparation Conceptual Basis and Process – Ensures consistent and
appropriate treatment of all DSA requirements for the variety of DOE
nonreactor nuclear facilities.
• Hazard Analysis—Provides final facility hazard categorization and considers
and incorporates into programmatic requirements measures to protect
workers, the public, and the environment from hazardous and accident
conditions. Technical Safety Requirements and safety-significant structures,
systems, and components, that are major contributors to worker safety and
defense in depth, are identified in the hazard analysis.
• Accident Analysis—Designates safety-class structures, systems, and
components and safety controls (i.e., TSRs) as a function of the Evaluation
Guideline (see Appendix A).
• Application of the Graded Approach—Provides a consistent and measured
treatment of this concept, including guidance on the minimum acceptable
DSA content.
PURPOSE OF DOE-STD-3009
This Standard describes a DSA preparation method that is acceptable to the DOE as
delineated for those specific facilities listed in Table 2 of Appendix A, “General
Statement of Safety Basis Policy”, to Subpart B, “Safety Basis Requirements”, of 10 CFR
830. It was developed to assist Hazard Category 2 and 3 facilities. in preparing SARs
that will satisfy the requirements of 10 CFR 830. Hazard Category 1 facilities are
typically expected to be Category A reactors for which extensive precedents for SARs
already exist.
Guidance provided by this Standard is generally applicable to any facility required to
document its safety basis in accordance with 10 CFR 830. For new facilities in which
conceptual design or construction activities are in progress [i.e., Preliminary Documented
Safety Analysis (PDSAs)] elements of this guidance may be more appropriately handled
as an integral part of the overall design requirements process (e.g., preliminary design to
design criteria). The methodology provided by this Standard focuses more on
characterizing facility safety (i.e., back-end approach) with or without well-documented
information than on the determination of facility design (i.e., front end approach).
Accordingly, contractors for facilities that are documenting conceptual designs for
PDSAs should apply the process and format of this Standard to the extent it is judged to
be of benefit.
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Beyond conceptual design and construction, the methodology in this Standard is
applicable to the spectrum of missions expected to occur over the lifetime of a facility
(e.g., production, shutdown/standby, decontamination and decommissioning). As the
phases of facility life change, suitable methodology is provided for use in updating an
existing DSA and in developing a new DSA if the new mission is no longer adequately
encompassed by the existing DSA (e.g., a change from production operations to
decontamination and decommissioning). This integration of the DSA with changes in
facility mission and associated updates should be controlled as part of an overall safety
management plan.
A unique element of DSA documentation is the required provisions for decontamination
and decommissioning (D&D) as discussed in Chapter 16 of this Standard. This forward
looking aspect of facility operations is independent of facility mission and is intended to
be a means of ensuring that current facility operations take into account D&D operations
that will occur in the future.
Section 18
For facilities transitioning into D&D, the safety basis of the D&D operations is
documented throughout a DSA. This DSA, of which the principal emphasis is on the
D&D operations themselves, provides the necessary analysis and supporting information
to describe the facilities as they undergo shutdown, deactivation, decontamination, and
decommissioning or dismantlement. The facility consists of the physical building, its
constituent components, and the actual processes of D&D being performed. Physical
buildings and constituent components targeted for D&D are briefly described in Chapter
2, “Facility Description.” Detailed descriptions are reserved for the actual D&D
processes, which are the focus of evaluation in Chapter 3, “Hazard and Accident
Analysis,” and Chapter 4, “Safety Structures, Systems, and Components,” for each stage
of major configuration change. Also included are the temporary engineering and
administrative controls used to maintain the safety basis. This description and evaluation
would envelop major configurations during the D&D operations for which the
authorization basis is sought. This is consistent with the intent of DSAs for operating
facilities where all operations conducted are not detailed in the DSA. DSAs for D&D
describe in Chapter 16, “Provisions for Decontamination and Decommissioning,”
assurances that the D&D operations for which approval is being sought are effectively
planned and will not result in future, unnecessary D&D activities (e.g., inadequate
labeling of characterized hazardous material).
DSA PREPARATION CONCEPTUAL BASIS AND PROCESS
The safety management programmatic requirements identified in 10 CFR 830, and
illustrated in Figure I-1, form the boundaries within which the safety analysis is
performed and represent the means of assuring safe operation of the facility. Hazard
analysis and accident analysis are performed to identify specific controls and
improvements that feed back into overall safety management. Consequence and
likelihood estimates obtained from this process also form the bases for grading the level
of detail and control needed in specific programs. The result is documentation of the
safety basis that emphasizes the controls needed to maintain safe operation of a facility.
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Figure I-1. DSA scope and integration
DSA Content
Programmatic
DSA Topics
• Criticality
Protection
• Radiation
Protection
• Hazardous
Material
Protection
• Emergency
Planning
Programmatic
DSA Topics
• Operational
Safety
• Procedures
and
Training
• Human
Factors
• Quality
Assurance
• Radioactive and
Hazardous Material
Waste Management
• Decontamination
and Decommissioning
• Initial Testing, In-
service Surveillance,
and Maintenance
• Management,
Organization, and
Institutional
Safety Provisions
Safety Analysis
Hazard/
Accident
Analysis
Evaluation
of
Normal
Operations
Facility and
Site
Description
Applicable
Statutes,
Rules,
Departmental
Orders, and
Principal
Health and
Safety
Criteria
Results of Safety Analysis
• Safety-class SSCs and safety-significant SSCs
• TSRs
• Facility modifications
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The DSA preparation process is illustrated in Figure I-2. The level of detail provided in
the DSA depends on numerous factors. Applying the guidance for the graded approach
in this Standard will assist the preparer in establishing an acceptable level of detail.
Section 19
The foundation for effectively preparing a DSA is the assembly and integration of an
experienced preparation team. The size and makeup of the team depend on the
magnitude and type of facility hazards and the complexity of the processes that are
required to be addressed in the DSA. In determining the makeup of the preparation team,
careful consideration should be given to the key hazard analysis activity. In general, the
safety analysis base team should include, as a minimum, individuals experienced in
process hazard and accident analyses, facility systems engineers, and process operators.
Individuals with experience in specific subject matter such as nuclear criticality,
radiological safety, fire safety, chemical safety, or process operations may be needed in
the hazard analysis on a regular or as needed basis. Such individuals will typically be
necessary in the development of programmatic DSA chapters as well. Consistent,
accurate exchange of information among the team members is at least as important as the
makeup of the team itself. This can be assured through meaningful integration of the
required tasks.
Once team makeup is determined, base information needed to support DSA development
is gathered. Maximum advantage should be taken of pertinent existing safety analyses
and design information (i.e., requirements and their bases) that are immediately available,
or can be retrieved through reasonable efforts. Other information arises from existing
sources such as process hazards analyses (PrHAs), fire hazards analyses (FHAs),
explosive safety analyses, health and safety plans (HASPs), environmental impact
statements (EISs), etc. The need for additional or specific information becomes apparent
throughout the hazard analysis process. The remaining key steps for efficient completion
of the safety analysis and the DSA development process are:
• Identify the DSA project functions using project information and ensure the team
matches the functions that are required.
• Perform hazard analysis to provide facility hazard classification, evaluate worker
safety and defense in depth, and identify unique and representative accidents to be
carried forward to accident analysis. Safety-significant SSCs and TSRs are
designated in hazard analysis as well.
• Perform an accident analysis and assess the results to identify any safety-class
SSCs and accident specific TSRs based on comparison of accident consequences
to the Evaluation Guideline.
• Develop the chapters for the DSA by providing information necessary to support
the results of the safety analysis. These chapters detail the results of the
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Figure I-2. DSA preparation process.
Identify Project Functions
• Project leader
• Hazards analysis
• Accident analysis
• Facility engineering
• Operations engineering
• Safety support functions
Assemble Base Information
• Facility mission/programs
• Natural phenomena evaluation bases
• Hazardous material inventories and
characterization
• Energy sources
• Operational processes using hazardous
materials, including wastes
• Preliminary facility description, emphasizing
containment/safety features
• Operational maintenance controls
Hazard Analysis for Categorization
• Consequences of unmitigated release
• Hazard categorization
Section 20
Hazard Analysis, Ch. 3
• Categorize hazards
• Identify initiating events
• Identify preventive/mitigative SSCs,
controls, and actions
• List worker hazards and protective
features and controls
• Assess defense in depth, worker safety,
and environmental protection provisions
• Estimate event likelihood
• Assess qualitative consequences with
and without mitigation
Evaluation of Results
• Identify safety significant SSCs and TSRs
based on defense in depth and worker safety
• Identify environmental protection provisions
• Preliminary selection of accident scenarios
(e.g., DBAs)
- Unique accidents
- Representative accidents
Assemble Information Base for Safety Analysis
Support Chapters
• Develop lists of safety management program
elements to support hazard analysis assumptions
• Determine depth of detail needed for
administrative controls and Programs
Prepare Safety Management Program Chapters
• Facility Description, Ch. 2
• Prevention of Inadvertent Criticality, Ch. 6
• Radiation Protection, Ch. 7
• Hazardous Material Protection, Ch. 8
• Radioactive and Hazardous Waste
Management, Ch.. 9
• Operational Safety, Ch. 11
• Human Factors, Ch. 13
• Quality Assurance, Ch. 14
• Emergency Preparedness Program, Ch. 15
• Provisions for Decontamination and
Decommissioning, Ch. 16
• Management Organization and Institutional
Safety Provisions, Ch. 17
Prepare TSR and SSC Assurance Programs
•Initial Testing, Surveillance, and
Maintenance, Ch. 10
• Procedures and Training, Ch. 12
• Contribute to other chapters as appropriate
Prepare Executive Summary
Team, Internal, and Independent Reviews
Accident Analysis, Ch. 3
• Develop accident scenarios
• Quantify source term and consequences
• Identify analysis assumptions
Evaluation of Results
• Compare to Evaluation Guideline
• Identify safety-class SSCs and TSRs based on
Evaluation Guideline
Describe Facility and SSC
• Finalize Facility
Description, Ch. 2
• Prepare safety-class SSC
and safety-significant
SSC, Ch. 4
Develop TSRs
• Prepare Ch. 5
• Develop test
frequencies
and maintenance
{
HC-2
HC-3
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analysis, describe the facility and the safety SSCs, and the safety management
programs that relate to the facility safety basis.
• Prepare the Executive Summary.
The process of developing a DSA is a process that may require numerous iterations
depending on the complexity of the facility and the level of detail required. The hazard
and accident analyses (hazard analysis is adequate for Category 3 facilities) are the
central elements of this process. The results of the hazard analysis form the basis for
grading the level of detail necessary to ensure an acceptable DSA. The hazard analysis
specifically identifies safety-significant SSCs for defense in depth and worker safety, and
TSR controls. The results of the accident analysis form the basis for determining
additional safety controls imposed on the facility (e.g., safety-class SSCs and TSRs) as a
function of the Evaluation Guideline. These specific controls are then factored into
overall safety management programs that ensure the operational discipline required by
the hazards identified is maintained.
Several specific topics are directly relevant to understanding the conceptual basis of this
Standard. These topics are worker safety, defense in depth, programmatic commitments,
SSC and TSR commitments, and correlation of this Standard to 10 CFR 830
requirements. The remainder of this section discusses each of these topics in discrete
subsections.
Section 21
Worker Safety
Workers, typically those in close proximity to operations, are the population principally
at risk from potential consequences associated with Hazard Category 2 and 3 facilities.
The DOE recognizes, via 10 CFR 830, the importance of including worker safety in
safety analyses. by specifically noting the worker as a population of concern. Developing
a conceptual basis for the methodology used in this Standard requires answering the
fundamental question of how worker safety is most appropriately addressed in the DSA.
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has published 29 CFR
1910.119, “Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals.” The purpose
of this regulation is defined by OSHA in summary fashion as, “Employees have been and
continue to be exposed to the hazards of toxicity, fires, and explosions from catastrophic
releases of highly hazardous chemicals in their workplaces. The requirements in this
standard are intended to eliminate or mitigate the consequences of such releases.” Many
of the topics requiring coverage in this federal regulation, such as design codes and
standards, process hazard analysis, human factors, training, etc., are directly parallel to
the requirements in 10 CFR 830.
DOE O 440.1 and the OSHA standard address the issue of worker safety from process
accidents by requiring the performance of hazards analyses for processes (exclusive of
standard industrial hazards) in conjunction with implementation of basic safety programs
that discipline operations and ensure judgments made in hazard analyses are supported by
actual operating conditions. These requirements effectively integrate programs and
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analyses into an overall safety management structure without requiring quantitative risk
assessment. This integration and the basic concepts of Process Safety Management
(PSM) described by OSHA regulations and the manuals and codes of practice described
in DOE O 440.1 are philosophically accepted as appropriate for DSAs. This Standard
effectively merges PSM principles with traditional DSA precepts.
Defense in Depth
Defense in depth as an approach to facility safety has extensive precedent in nuclear
safety philosophy. It builds in layers of defense against release of hazardous materials so
that no one layer by itself, no matter how good, is completely relied upon. To
compensate for potential human and mechanical failures, defense in depth is based on
several layers of protection with successive barriers to prevent the release of hazardous
material to the environment. This approach includes protection of the barriers to avert
damage to the plant and to the barriers themselves. It includes further measures to protect
the public, workers, and the environment from harm in case these barriers are not fully
effective.
The defense-in-depth philosophy is a fundamental approach to hazard control for
nonreactor nuclear facilities even though they do not possess the catastrophic accident
potential associated with nuclear power plants. In keeping with the graded-approach
concept, no requirement to demonstrate a generic, minimum number of layers of defense
in depth is imposed. However, defining defense in depth as it exists at a given facility is
crucial for determining a safety basis. Operators of DOE facilities need to use the
rigorous application of defense-in-depth thinking in their designs and operations. Such
an approach is representative of industrial operations with an effective commitment to
public and worker safety and the minimization of environmental releases.
Section 22
For high hazard operations, there are typically multiple layers of defense in depth. The
inner layer of defense in depth relies upon a high level of design quality so that important
systems, structures, and components will perform their required functions with high
reliability and high tolerance against degradation. The inner layer also relies on
competent operating personnel who are well trained in operations and maintenance
procedures. Competent personnel translates into fewer malfunctions, failures, or errors
and, thus, minimizes challenges to the next layer of defense.
In the event that the inner layer of defense in depth is compromised from either
equipment malfunction (from whatever cause) or operator error and there is a progression
from the normal to an abnormal range of operation, the next layer of defense in depth is
relied upon. It can consist of: (1) automatic systems; or (2) means to alert the operator to
take action or manually activate systems that correct the abnormal situation and halt the
progression of events toward a serious accident.
Mitigation of the consequences of accidents is provided in the outer layer of defense in
depth. Passive, automatically or manually activated features (e.g., containment or
confinement system, deluge systems, filtered exhaust), and/or safety management
programs (i.e., emergency response) minimize consequences in the event that all other
layers have been breached. The contribution of emergency response actions to
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minimizing consequences of a given accident cannot be neglected as they represent a
truly final measure of protection for releases that cannot be prevented.
Structures, systems, or components that are major contributors to defense in depth are
designated as safety-significant SSCs. Additionally, this Standard provides guidance on
grading the safety management programs (e.g., radiation protection, hazardous material
protection, maintenance, procedures, training) that a facility must commit to in order to
establish an adequate safety basis. The discipline imposed by safety management
programs goes beyond merely supporting the assumptions identified in the hazard
analysis and is an integral part of defense in depth.
In accordance with nuclear safety precepts, a special level of control is provided through
use of TSRs. DOE Guide 423.1-1, “Implementation Guide for Use in Developing
Technical Safety Requirements,” provides screening criteria for converting existing
Technical Specifications and Operational Safety Requirements (OSRs) into TSRs. For
the purposes of this Standard, the screening criteria are considered a generally reasonable
set of criteria to designate TSRs for defense in depth. The safety items identified in the
hazard analysis are examined against those criteria to identify a subset of the most
significant controls that prevent uncontrolled release of hazardous materials and nuclear
criticality. These TSR controls may be captured in operational limits or in administrative
controls, including those on safety management programs. This collection of TSRs
formally acknowledges features that are of major significance to defense in depth.
Safety Management Program Commitments
Section 23
Sections 10 CFR 830.204(b)(5) and 830.204(b)(6) of the Rule require that the DSA
define the characteristics of the safety management programs necessary to ensure the safe
operation of the facility. Program commitments (e.g., radiation protection, maintenance,
quality assurance) encompass a large number of details that are more appropriately
covered in specific program documents (e.g., plans and procedures) external to the DSA.
The cumulative effect of these details, however, are recognized as being important to
facility safety, which is the rationale for a top level program commitment becoming part
of the safety basis.
The importance of the program commitments, which can be incorporated in TSRs as
administrative controls, cannot be overestimated. The safety basis, however, includes
only the top level summary of program elements, not the details of the program or its
governing documents. Inspection discrepancies in a program would not constitute
violation of the safety basis unless the discrepancies were so gross as to render premises
of the summary invalid.
By virtue of application of the graded approach, the majority of the engineered features in
a facility will not be identified in the categories of safety-class or safety-significant SSCs
even though they may perform some safety functions. However, such controls noted as a
barrier or preventive or mitigative feature in the hazard and accident analyses must not be
ignored in managing operations. Such a gross discrepancy would violate the safety basis
documented in the DSA even if the controls are not designated safety-class or safety-
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significant, because programmatic commitments extend to these SSCs as well. For
example, the commitment to a maintenance program means that the preventive and
mitigative equipment noted as such in the DSA hazard analysis are included in the
facility maintenance program. As a minimum, all aspects of defense in depth identified
must be covered within the relevant safety management programs (e.g., maintenance,
quality assurance) committed to in the DSA. The details of that coverage, however, are
developed in the maintenance program as opposed to in the DSA. Facility operators are
expected to have noted the relative significance of these engineered features and have
provided for them in programs, in keeping with standard industrial practice, based on the
importance of the equipment. It is the fact of coverage that is relevant to the facility
safety basis. The details of this programmatic coverage (i.e., exact type of maintenance
items and associated periodicities) are not developed in or part of the DSA.
One overall commitment made in a DSA is that the contractor will not change the facility
configuration underlying the documented safety basis without implementing and
completing the unreviewed safety question (USQ) process. However, situations do occur
where a USQ process is not necessary. for example, a stipulation to have a radiation
protection program in the administrative control section of the TSR is a commitment;
however, changes to specific program provisions do not require going through the USQ
process. Further clarification of such interpretations can be found in DOE G 424.1-1,
“Implementation Guide for Use in Addressing Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ)
Requirements”.
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DOE facilities that use and rely on site-wide, safety support services, organizations, and
procedures, may summarize the applicable site-wide documentation provided its interface
with the facility is made clear. The DSA then notes whether the reference applies to a
specific commitment in a portion of the referenced documentation or is a global
commitment to maintaining a program for which a number of details may vary without
affecting the global commitment. Any documents referenced in the DSA are to be made
available upon request.
TSR and SSC Commitments
In order to comply with 10 CFR 830, specific safety controls are to be developed in the
DSA. In keeping with the graded-approach principle, distinctions are made to avoid
wasting effort by providing detailed descriptions of all facility SSCs. While a basic
descriptive model of the facility and its equipment must be provided in Chapter 2,
“Facility Description,” highly detailed descriptions are reserved for two categories of
SSCs comprising the most crucial aspects of facility safety. These two categories are
safety-class SSCs and safety-significant SSCs.
Detailed descriptions are provided for these SSCs in Chapter 4 of the DSA because of the
importance of their safety functions. Descriptions result in the definition of functional
requirements and associated performance criteria used to derive TSRs. TSRs are safety
controls developed in accordance with the precepts of 10 CFR 830. TSR and SSC
commitments encompass the following:
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• Technical safety requirements. TSRs comprise: (1) safety limits (SLs); (2)
operational limits consisting of limiting control settings (LCSs) and limiting
conditions for operation (LCOs) and associated surveillance requirements (SRs);
(3) administrative controls (ACs), (4) use and application provisions, (5) design
features, and (6) Bases Appendix. Based on the results of hazard and accident
analysis TSRs are designated for: (1) safety-class SSCs and controls established
on the basis of application of the Evaluation Guideline; (2) safety-significant
SSCs; (3) defense in depth in accordance with the screening criteria of DOE G
423.1-1; and (4) safety management programs for defense in depth or worker
safety. The Bases Appendix provides the linkage to the DSA.
It is important to develop TSRs judiciously. TSRs should not be used as a vehicle
to cover the many procedural and programmatic controls inherent in any
operation. Excessive use of TSR limits to manage operations will result in
distortion of the regulatory structure DOE is attempting to develop and will dilute
the emphasis intended for the most critical controls.
SLs should be limited in number and designated with caution. In accordance with
Table 4 of Appendix A to Subpart B of 10 CFR 830, SLs are generally reserved
for limits on process variables associated with those safety-class physical barriers,
generally passive, that are necessary for the intended facility function and that are
required to guard against the uncontrolled release of radioactive materials. The
associated operating limits apply to active SSCs that prevent exceeding SLs. The
only candidates for SLs should be safety-class SSCs and any non-SSC controls
established on the basis of the application of the Evaluation Guideline. Nuclear
industry precedent is that only a limited subset of safety-class SSCs, if any,
require definition of associated SLs, which are intended to prevent significant
accidents as opposed to mitigating their effects.
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TSRs assigned for defense in depth or safety-significant SSCs do not have SLs
and are not required to use operational limits (i.e., LCSs, LCOs). They should,
however, receive coverage in the administrative control section of TSRs as a
minimum. Judgment should be used to determine what controls warrant use of
operational limits. When TSR administrative controls are used for purposes other
than generic coverage of safety management programs, descriptions should be
sufficiently detailed that a basic understanding is provided of what is controlled
and why. Beyond safety-significant SSCs designated for worker safety and their
associated TSR coverage, additional worker safety issues should be covered in
TSRs only by administrative controls on overall safety management programs.
• Safety-class structures, systems, and components. The Rule defines safety-
class designation for SSCs that are established on the basis of application of the
Evaluation Guidelines. This designation carries with it the most stringent
requirements (e.g., enhanced inspection, testing and maintenance, and special
instrumentation and control systems). Appendix A provides guidance for
implementing the Evaluation Guideline to classify SSCs as safety-class SSCs.
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• Safety-significant structures, systems, and components. This category of SSCs
is provided to ensure that important SSCs will be given adequate attention in the
DSA and facility operations programs. Safety-significant SSCs are those of
particular importance to defense in depth or worker safety as determined in hazard
analysis. Control of such SSCs does not require meeting the level of stringency
associated with safety-class SSCs.
The Evaluation Guideline is not used for designating safety-significant SSCs.
Safety-class SSCs are designated to address public risk, which makes a dose
guideline at the site boundary a useful tool. Safety-significant SSCs address risk
for all individuals within the site boundary as well as additional defense in depth
for the public, making a dose guideline at any one point an artificial distinction
distorting the process of systematically evaluating SSCs.
TSRs covering SSCs ensuring defense in depth should generally correlate with
safety-significant SSC designation for defense in depth, but exact one-to-one
correlation is not required.
HAZARD ANALYSIS
The initial analytical effort for all facilities is a hazard analysis that systematically
identifies facility hazards and accident potentials through hazard identification and hazard
evaluation. The focus of the hazard analysis is on thoroughness and requires evaluation
of the complete spectrum of hazards and accidents. This largely qualitative effort forms
the basis for the entire safety analysis effort, including specifically addressing defense in
depth and protection of workers and the environment. Basic industrial methods for
hazard analysis, its interface with more structured quantitative evaluations, and the basis
for both have been described in references such as the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures (1992). These guidelines have
been accepted by OSHA as the standard for analytical adequacy in characterizing
commercial chemical processes that perform the same type of unit operations conducted
at DOE nonreactor nuclear facilities. Appropriately applied, they help fulfill the
requirements of DSAs for Hazard Category 2 and 3 facilities as specified in 10CFR830.
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The largely qualitative techniques described in the above reference on hazard analysis
provide methodologies for comprehensive definition of the accident spectrum for workers
and the public. The basic identification of hazards inherent in the process provides a broad,
initial basis for identification of safety programs needed (e.g., radiation protection, hazardous
chemical protection). The hazard analysis then moves beyond basic hazard identification to
evaluation of the expected consequences and estimation of likelihood of accidents, an activity
that in no way connotes the level of effort of a probabilistic or quantitative risk assessment.
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Throughout the evaluation process, preventive and mitigative SSCs and pertinent
elements of programmatic controls are identified. This identification also establishes
functional requirements for SSCs, which will subsequently delineate the technical
information (i.e., response parameters) needed to establish performance criteria. The
DSA summarizes these requirements and criteria for safety-class and safety-significant
SSCs only. Refinement of the information obtained in hazard evaluation leads to overall
definition of defense in depth, worker safety, and environmental protection.
The most significant aspects of defense in depth and worker safety are subject to
designation as safety-significant SSCs and coverage by TSRs. Other items noted are
encompassed by the details of safety management programs (e.g., procedures, training,
maintenance, quality assurance), which can be captured in top-level fashion in TSR
administrative controls. The hazard evaluation conducted to assess the accident spectrum
associated with hazards germane to the DSA indicates the adequacy of programmatic
efforts and provides input to programmatic activities whose discipline provides a
significant margin of safety.
The process outlined above is self grading for analytical effort. Analytical effort can be
limited to a simple, resource efficient hazard analysis geared to facility needs, unless
events are noted that are of sufficient complexity to require more detailed, quantitative
evaluations to understand the basis for safety assurance. Implicit in this methodology is
the statement of DOE-STD-1027 that the largely qualitative level of effort in hazard
analysis is appropriate and sufficient for accident analysis of Hazard Category 3 facilities.
It is again noted that the hazard analysis effort is not a quantitative risk assessment.
Preparers (and subsequent reviewers) cannot expect the level of detail associated with a
quantitative risk assessment in a hazard analysis, as the hazard analysis is focused on
systematically assessing what can go wrong in a facility as opposed to deriving
mathematical expressions of risk.
The final purpose of hazard analysis is to identify a limited subset of accidents to be
carried forward to accident analysis. Identification of DBAs in safety analysis and use of
DBAs is appropriate in defining a facility safety basis. DBAs are accidents that are
utilized to provide the design parameters for release barriers and mitigating systems.
DBAs are a “front-end” device for designing individual equipment or systems to meet
functional requirements, as evidenced by use of the phrase “utilized to provide the design
parameters.” An accident can be defined as a DBA if relevant SSCs were specifically
designed to function during that accident and appropriate documentation of this fact
exists.
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The range of accident scenarios analyzed in a DSA should be such that a complete set of
bounding conditions to define the envelope of accident conditions to which the operation
could be subjected are evaluated and documented. This necessitates the consideration of
accidents other than DBAs for two cardinal reasons. First, even if DBAs exist, they may
not adequately cover “the range of accident scenarios” needed to establish the facility
safety basis. Secondly, DBAs may not cover a “complete set of bounding conditions.”
Either of these conditions may arise for a number of reasons, such as the original design
not being related to bounding conditions, the criteria for determining facility safety basis
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having significantly changed, operations or types of hazards having changed, or
magnitude of hazards having increased. Any one of these reasons may make the DBA
inadequate for determining a facility safety basis.
The most obvious and extreme reason for examining accidents other than DBAs for
existing facilities is a lack of design documentation. If appropriate design documentation
is not available, postulated accidents are not DBAs. The front-end purpose of a DBA
(i.e., “to provide the design parameters”) cannot be meaningfully addressed even if
existing design parameters are estimated and used to develop an accident scenario. The
reconstructed accident would not determine design parameters. It would be determined
by them. The need to analyze a range of scenarios that bound conditions would not
clearly be met by such an exercise. This potential lack of relevance is one of the reasons
that the DSA is not the proper vehicle for formally filling gaps in existing design
documentation.
Where DBAs do not exist, or do not adequately cover the range of scenarios or bounding
conditions, surrogate evaluation bases are needed. These derivative DBAs are used to
estimate the response of SSCs to “the range of accident scenarios” and stresses that
bound “the envelope of accident conditions to which the facility could be subjected” in
order to evaluate accident consequences. The derivative DBAs should take maximum
advantage of the pertinent existing design information (i.e., requirements and bases) that
is immediately available or can be retrieved through reasonable efforts. To the extent
necessary, this information can be supplemented by testing, extrapolation, and
engineering judgments.
Existing facilities, like all industrial facilities, were generally built with standard process
and utility SSCs with a high consideration for basic safety. For the majority of these
facilities, adequate facility design and process information exist that, while not of the
quality and detail expected for current conceptual design, is typical of many commercial
processing operations, which comprise the majority of industrial practices. This
information can be used in estimating SSC response to derivative DBAs whose
evaluation will satisfy the requirements of safety analysis.
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For operational accidents, a derivative DBA is defined based on the physical possibility
of phenomena as defined in the hazards analysis. Use of a lower binning threshold such
as 10-6/yr is generally appropriate, but should not be used as an absolute cutoff for
dismissing physically credible low probability operational accidents (e.g., red oil
explosions) without any evaluation of preventive and mitigative features in hazard
analysis. This distinction is made to prevent “pencil sharpening” at the expense of
objective evaluation of hazards. Examples of a candidate derivative DBA would be an
ion exchange column or a red oil explosion at a facility where the phenomena is
physically possible and documentation is not available substantiating ventilation and
building confinement systems were specifically designed for such an occurrence.
For natural event accidents, derivative DBAs are defined by a frequency of initiator based
on DOE 420.1, “Facility Safety”, and its associated implementation standards. For
external man-made accidents, derivative DBAs are assumed if the event can occur with a
frequency >10-6/yr as conservatively estimated, or >10-7/yr as realistically estimated. Use
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of a frequency cutoff for external events represents a unique case for external events
only, based on established Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) precedents. For
simplicity, use of the term DBA throughout this Standard is inclusive of both DBAs and
derivative DBAs.
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
The complete spectrum of accidents are examined in hazard analysis. A limited subset of
accidents, (i.e., DBAs and derivative DBAs) that bound "the envelope of accident
conditions to which the operation could be subjected" are carried forward to accident
analysis where safety-class SSCs are designated by comparison of accident consequences
to the Evaluation Guideline. These scenarios are the accidents requiring formal
definition. Information obtained from specific accidents or representative accidents
enveloping many small accidents are used to specify functional requirements for safety-
class SSCs in Chapter 4.
An accident analysis is performed for the bounding accidents. Accident analysis in this
Standard refers to the formal quantification (i.e., all assumptions identified and justified
and individual computations presented or summarized) of accident consequences. The
general binning estimates used in hazard analysis are adequate and representative of the
level of effort desired for frequency determination. Accordingly, accident analysis need
only document the basis used in hazard analysis for assigning accident likelihood to two-
orders-of-magnitude bins. The quantified consequences are compared to the numerical
Evaluation Guideline for the purpose of identifying safety-class SSCs and any accident
specific assumptions requiring coverage by TSRs.
APPLICATION OF THE GRADED APPROACH
10 CFR 830 prescribes the use of a graded approach for the effort expended in safety
analysis and the level of detail presented in associated documentation. The graded
approach applied to DSA preparation and updates is intended to produce cost efficient
safety analysis and DSA content that provide adequate assurance to the DOE that a
facility has acceptable safety provisions without providing unnecessary information. As
described in 10 CFR 830, the graded approach adjusts the magnitude of the preparation
effort to the characteristics of the subject facility based on seven factors:
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• The relative importance to safety, safeguards, and security;
• The magnitude of any hazard involved;
• The life cycle stage of a facility;
• The programmatic mission of a facility;
• The particular characteristics of a facility;
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• The relative importance of radiological and nonradiological hazards; and
• Any other relevant factor.
The Rule provides for developing the DSA based on judgment of the facility in relation
to these seven factors. For example, simple Hazard Category 3 facilities or facilities that
have a short operational life may only require a limited but adequate analysis documented
to a level less than that required for a Hazard Category 2 facility. In addition, facilities
with short operational lives (or other compelling circumstances) should consider the
appropriateness of using DOE-STD-3011 to meet the requirements of 10 CFR 830. On
the opposite end of the spectrum, a complex Hazard Category 1 facility that is just going
into operation requires extensive analysis and highly detailed documentation.
The application of the graded approach may allow for much simpler analysis and
documentation for some of these facilities. For facilities of little hazard, or hazards at the
Hazard Category 3 level, for which only a modest reduction of risk is required, the DSA
may be simple and short. In such cases all of the topics for the DSA listed in this
Standard may not be necessary and with proper technical bases some topics may be
omitted or reduced in the detail that would otherwise be required of Hazard Category 1 or
2 facilities.
Thus, with application of the graded approach, DSAs for Hazard Category 3 facilities or
facilities with short operational lives will normally require more simplified DSA analysis
and documentation. Specific minimum levels of detail for these facilities are given in
options #3 and #8 in Table 2 of Appendix A to 10 CFR 830 Subpart B and the graded
approach section of each chapter in this Standard. As a minimum, a DSA would be
found acceptable for a simple Hazard Category 3 facility if it used the methods in
Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Standard to address in a simplified fashion:
• The basic description of the facility and its operations, including safety structures,
systems, and components;
• A qualitative hazards analysis; and
• The hazard controls (consisting primarily of inventory limits and safety
management programs) and their bases.
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Executive Summary
PURPOSE. The DSA Executive Summary provides an overview of the facility safety
basis and presents information sufficient to establish a top-level understanding of the
facility, its operations, and the results of the safety analysis. It summarizes the facility
safety basis as documented in detail in the remainder of the DSA. Expected products of
this summary, as applicable based on the graded approach, include:
• Summary of the facility background and mission.
• Overview of the facility including location and boundaries.
• Description of the facility hazard category.
• Summary of the results of the facility safety analysis including operational
hazards analyzed, DBAs, and significant preventive and mitigative features.
• Summary of the acceptability of the facility safety basis.
• Guide to the structure and content of the DSA (i.e., “road map”).
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APPLICATION OF THE GRADED APPROACH. This summary is intended as an
overview of the facility safety basis and presents information sufficient to provide a basic
understanding of the facility, operations, and results of safety analysis. It is prepared
upon completion of all the other DSA chapters since it predominately draws upon the
information in those chapters (see the Introduction and Figure 1-2). Information
provided should be top-level in nature and avoid reproducing the details of material
documented in subsequent chapters.
CONTENT GUIDANCE FOR SECTIONS OF
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
E.1 FACILITY BACKGROUND AND MISSION
This section identifies the facility for which the DSA has been prepared and
presents general information on the background of the facility as it relates to the
stage of facility life cycle. Clearly present the current mission statement for
which the DSA documents the safety basis (i.e., the purpose for which
authorization is sought).
Present any relevant information (e.g., short facility life cycle, anticipated future
change in facility mission, approved DOE exemptions) impacting the extent of
safety analysis documented in the DSA and briefly explain its impact in terms of
application of the graded approach.
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E.2 FACILITY OVERVIEW
This section provides an overview of the facility, including the facility location,
physical and institutional boundaries, relationship and interfaces with nearby
facilities, facility layout, and significant external interfaces (e.g. utilities, fire
support, and medical support).
E.3 FACILITY HAZARD CATEGORIZATION
This section provides a statement of the facility hazard category as determined in
accordance with DOE-STD-1027. If determination of the hazard category relied
upon segmentation of facility hazards, then provide a brief explanation of the
technical basis for such segmentation.
E.4 SAFETY ANALYSIS OVERVIEW
This section provides an overview of the facility operations and the results of the
facility safety analysis to include:
• Description of the facility operations analyzed in the DSA.
• Summary of the significant hazards associated with the facility processes
including DBAs.
• Summary of the main preventive and mitigative features relied upon in the
facility safety basis.
E.5 ORGANIZATIONS
This section identifies the prime contractors responsible for facility design and
construction (e.g., architect-engineer), facility maintenance and operation, and
any consultants, oversight groups, and outside service organizations with
significant safety functions. This section should also identify participants,
including consultants, participating in the DSA development process.
E.6 SAFETY ANALYSIS CONCLUSIONS
This section should provide a brief assessment of the appropriateness of the
facility safety basis. As part of this summary, this section would identify any
issues significant to the facility safety basis recognized by the facility operators to
require further resolution, but for which delay in documenting the facility safety
basis is not warranted or potential budgetary considerations require DOE
involvement in a decision process requiring extensive study (e.g., backfit
analysis).
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E.7 DSA ORGANIZATION
This section provides a guide to the structure and content of the DSA, its chapters,
and appendixes. If the main body of the DSA parallels the format delineated in
this Standard, a simple statement to that effect will suffice.
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Chapter 1
Site Characteristics
PURPOSE. The purpose of this DSA chapter is to provide information necessary to
support the safety basis requirements of 10 CFR 830.
This chapter provides a description of site characteristics necessary for understanding the
facility environs important to the safety basis. Information is provided to support and
clarify assumptions used in the hazard and accident analyses to identify and analyze
potential external and natural event accident initiators and accident consequences external
to the facility. Expected products of this chapter, as applicable based on the graded
approach, include:
• Description of the location of the site, location of the facility within the site, its
proximity to the public and to other facilities, and identification of the point where
the Evaluation Guideline is applied.
• Specification of population sheltering, population location and density, and other
aspects of the surrounding area to the site that relate to assessment of the
protection of the health and safety of the public.
• Determination of the historical basis for site characteristics in meteorology,
hydrology, geology, seismology, volcanology, and other naturalevents to the
extent needed for hazard and accident analyses.
• Identification of design basis natural events.
• Identification of sources of external accidents, such as nearby airports, railroads,
or utilities such as natural gas lines.
• Identification of nearby facilities impacting, or impacted by, the facility under
evaluation.
• Validation of site characteristic assumptions common to safety analysis that were
used in prior environmental analyses and impact statements, or of the need to
revise and update such assumptions used in facility environmental impact
statements.
Existing supporting documentation is to be referenced. Include brief abstracts of
referenced documentation with enough of the salient facts to provide an understanding of
the referenced documentation and its relation to this chapter.
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APPLICATION OF THE GRADED APPROACH. Hazard Category 3 facilities may not
have the potential for resulting in significant radiological consequences beyond the
immediate facility. Therefore, the description of site characteristics, as a minimum,
locates the facility on the overall site, shows the facility boundaries, and identifies any
other facilities that can significantly impact the facility being examined. For Hazard
Category 3 facilities, onsite meteorological conditions, hydrology, population
information, and offsite accident pathways are not typically required, since consequences
are limited to the facility itself. Note, however, that if significant chemical hazards are
present in a Hazard Category 3 facility that have the potential to cause significant offsite
consequences, more information is necessary.
For Hazard Category 2 facilities the emphasis of site characteristics description is focused
within site boundaries unless hazards have the potential to cause offsite consequences of
concern. For Hazard Category 2 facilities with the potential for an accident resulting in
consequences of concern at the site boundary, site characteristics information is extended
beyond the site boundary to support assessment of population dose, land contamination,
and emergency planning external to the site.
CONTENT GUIDANCE FOR SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 1
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
This section provides an introduction to the contents of this chapter based on the
graded approach and includes objectives and scope specific to the chapter as
developed.
1.2 REQUIREMENTS
This section lists the design codes, standards, regulations, and DOE Orders which
have been used for establishing the safety basis of the facility. The intent is to
provide only the requirements that are specific for this chapter and pertinent to the
safety analysis, and not a comprehensive listing of all industrial standards or
codes or criteria. Standards and Requirements Identification Documents (SRIDs)
may be referenced as appropriate.
1.3 SITE DESCRIPTION
This section describes the site boundary and facility area boundary.
1.3.1 Geography
This section provides basic geographic information, such as:
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• State and county in which the site is located.
• Location of the site relative to prominent natural and man-made features
such as rivers, lakes, mountain ranges, dams, airports, population centers.
• General location map to define the boundary of the site and show the
correct distance of significant facility features from the site boundary.
• Public exclusion areas and access control areas.
• Identification of the point where the Evaluation Guideline is applied.
• Additional detail maps, as needed, to present near plant detail, such as
orientation of buildings, traffic routes, transmission lines, and neighboring
structures.
1.3.2 Demography
Population information based on recent census data is included to show the
population distribution as a function of distance and direction from the facility.
Demographic information emphasizes worker populations and nearby residences,
major population centers, and major institutions such as schools, hospitals, etc., to
the degree warranted by potential offsite consequences. The minimum area
addressed is defined by the area significantly affected by the accidents analyzed in
Chapter 3, “Hazard and Accident Analyses.”
1.4 ENVIRONMENTAL DESCRIPTION
This section describes the site’s meteorology, hydrology, and geology.
1.4.1 Meteorology
This section provides the meteorological information necessary to understand the
regional weather phenomena of concern for facility operations and to understand
the dispersion analyses performed.
1.4.2 Hydrology
This section provides the hydrological information necessary to understand any
regional hydrological phenomena of concern for facility operation and to
understand any dispersion analyses performed. Include information on
groundwater aquifers, drainage plots, soil porosity, and other aspects of the
hydrological character of the site. Discuss or reference, to the degree necessary,
the average and extreme conditions as determined by historical data to meet the
intent of this section.
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1.4.3 Geology
This section provides the geological information necessary to understand any
regional geological phenomena of concern for facility operation. Describe the
nature of investigations performed and provide the results of the investigations.
Include geologic history, soil structures, and other aspects of the geologic
character of the site.
1.5 NATURAL EVENT ACCIDENT INITIATORS
This section provides identification of specific natural events, such as design basis
earthquakes considered to be potential accident initiators. Summarize
assumptions supporting the analysis in Chapter 3, “Hazard and Accident
Analyses.”
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1.6 MAN-MADE EXTERNAL ACCIDENT INITIATORS
This section provides identification of specific man-made external events
associated with the site - events such as explosions from natural gas lines or
accidents from nearby transportation activities - considered to be potential
accident initiators, exclusive of sabotage and terrorism. Summarize assumptions
supporting the analysis in Chapter 3, “Hazard and Accident Analyses.”
1.7 NEARBY FACILITIES
This section identifies any nearby facilities that could be affected by accidents
within the facility being evaluated. Conversely, this section also identifies any
hazardous operations or facilities onsite or offsite that could adversely impact the
facility under evaluation. Summarize assumptions supporting the analysis in
Chapter 3, “Hazard and Accident Analyses.”
1.8 VALIDITY OF EXISTING ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES
This section assesses the validity of site characteristic assumptions for existing
environmental analyses and impact statements based on the more recent DSA
effort. Simply state that no significant discrepancies exist or indicate the need to
revise and update assumptions used in facility environmental statements through
brief discussions summarizing major discrepancies.
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Chapter 2
Facility Description
PURPOSE. The purpose of this DSA chapter is to provide information necessary to
support the safety basis requirements of 10 CFR 830.
This chapter provides descriptions of the facility and processes to support assumptions
used in the hazard and accident analyses. These descriptions focus on all major facility
features necessary to understand the hazard analysis and accident analysis, not just safety
SSCs. Expected products of this chapter, as applicable based on the graded approach,
include:
• Overview of the facility, its inputs and its outputs, including mission and history.
• Description of the facility structure and design basis.
• Description of the facility process systems and constituent components,
instrumentation, controls, operating parameters, and relationships of SSCs.
• Description of confinement systems.
• Description of the facility safety support systems.
• Description of the facility utilities.
• Description of facility auxiliary systems and support systems.
Existing supporting documentation is to be referenced. Include brief abstracts of
referenced documentation with enough of the salient facts to provide an understanding of
the referenced documentation and its relation to this chapter.
APPLICATION OF THE GRADED APPROACH. The development of this chapter for
Hazard Category 2 and 3 facilities is an iterative process dependent on the development
of the hazard and accident analyses. The facility description should provide a model of
the facility that would allow an independent reader to develop an understanding of
facility operations and an appreciation of facility structure and operations without
extensive consultation of controlled references. The level of detail required in the facility
description is based on the significance of preventive and mitigative features identified
and the degree of facility context necessary to understand the analyses. For a Hazard
Category 3 facility, provide a brief description of the facility, processes, and major SSCs.
Grading will be based predominantly on complexity.
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This chapter does not include information at the level of functional requirements and
performance criteria. That information is provided for safety SSCs only in Chapter 4. In
the basic description of safety SSCs, their categorization as safety-class SSC or safety
significant SSC should simply be noted.
CONTENT GUIDANCE FOR SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 2
2.1 INTRODUCTION
This section provides an introduction to the contents of this chapter based on the
graded approach and includes objectives and scope specific to the chapter as
developed.
2.2 REQUIREMENTS
This section lists the design codes, standards, regulations, and DOE Orders which
are required for establishing the safety basis of the facility. The intent is to
provide only the requirements that are specific for this chapter and pertinent to the
safety analysis, and not a comprehensive listing of all industrial standards or
codes or criteria. SRIDS may be referenced as appropriate.
2.3 FACILITY OVERVIEW
This section includes a brief overview of the current and historical use of the
facility, projected future uses, facility configuration, and the basic processes
performed therein.
2.4 FACILITY STRUCTURE
This section provides an overview of the basic facility buildings and structures,
including construction details such as basic floor plans, equipment layout,
construction materials, controlling dimensions, and dimensions significant to the
hazard and accident analysis activity. Supply information to support an overall
understanding of the facility structure and the general arrangement of the facility
as it pertains to hazard and accident analysis.
2.5 PROCESS DESCRIPTION
This section describes the individual processes within the facility. Include details
on basic process parameters, including summary of types and quantities of
hazardous materials, process equipment, instrumentation and control systems and
equipment, basic flow diagrams, and operational considerations associated with
individual processes or the entire facility, including major interfaces and
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relationships between SSCs. The intent is to supply information to provide an
understanding of the assessment of normal operations, the safety analysis and its
conclusions, and insight into the types of operations for which a safety
management program must be devised.
2.6 CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS
This section identifies and describes the set of structures, systems, and
components that perform confinement functions such as process vessels, glove
boxes, ventilation systems, and facility walls.
2.7 SAFETY SUPPORT SYSTEMS
This section identifies and describes the principal systems that perform safety
support functions (i.e., safety functions not part of specific processes). State the
purpose of each system and provide and overview of each system, including
principal components, operations, and control function. Examples of systems
under this heading might include fire protection, criticality monitoring,
radiological monitoring (e.g., air monitoring, contamination prevention), chemical
monitoring (e.g., hydrogen concentration monitoring), effluent monitoring, etc.
Note: This section is designed to organize the presentation of information, not to
designate any special class of equipment.
2.8 UTILITY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
This section provides a schematic outline of the basic utility distribution systems,
including a description of the offsite power supplies and onsite components of the
system. Details of systems are given, to the level necessary, for understanding the
utility distribution philosophy and facility operations.
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2.9 AUXILIARY SYSTEMS AND SUPPORT FACILITIES
This section provides information on the remaining portions of that facility that
have not been covered by the preceding sections and which are necessary to
create a conceptual model of the facility as it pertains to the hazard and accident
analyses.
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Chapter 3
Hazard and Accident Analyses
PURPOSE. The purpose of this DSA chapter is to provide information that will satisfy
the requirements of 10 CFR 830 to evaluate normal, abnormal, and accident conditions,
including consideration of natural and man-made external events, identification of energy
sources or process that might contribute to the generation or uncontrolled release of
radioactive and other hazardous materials, and consideration of the need for analysis of
accidents which may be beyond the design basis of the facility.
This chapter describes the process used to systematically identify and assess hazards to
evaluate the potential internal, man-made external, and natural events that can cause the
identified hazards to develop into accidents. This chapter also presents the results of this
hazard identification and assessment process. Hazard analysis considers the complete
spectrum of accidents that may occur due to facility operations; analyzes potential
accident consequences to the public and workers; estimates likelihood of occurrence;
identifies and assesses associated preventive and mitigative features; identifies safety-
significant SSCs; and identifies a selected subset of accidents, designated DBAs, to be
formally defined in accident analysis. Subsequent accident analysis evaluates these
DBAs for comparison with the Evaluation Guideline. This chapter covers the topics of
hazard identification, facility hazard categorization, hazard evaluation, and accident
analysis. Expected products of this chapter, as applicable based on the graded approach,
include:
• Description of the methodology for and approach to hazard and accident analyses.
• Identification of hazardous materials and energy sources present by type, quantity,
form, and location.
• Facility hazard categorization, including segmentation in accordance with DOE-
STD-1027.
• Identification in the hazard analysis of the spectrum of potential accidents at the
facility in terms of largely qualitative consequence and frequency estimates. The
summary of this activity will also include:
— Identification of planned design and operational safety improvements.
— Summary of defense in depth, including identification of safety-significant
SSCs and other items needing TSR coverage in accordance with 10 CFR
830.
— Summary of the significant worker safety features, including identification
of safety-significant SSCs and any relevant programs to be covered under
TSR and administrative controls.
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— Summary of design and operational features that reduce the potential for
large material releases to the environment.
— Identification of the limited set of unique and representative accidents
(i.e., DBAs) to be assessed further in accident analysis.
• Accident analysis of DBAs identified in the hazard analysis. The summary of this
activity will include for each accident analyzed, the following:
— Estimation of source term and consequence.
— Documentation of the rationale for binning frequency of occurrence in a
broad range in hazard analysis (detailed probability calculations not
required).
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— Documentation of accident assumptions and identification of safety-class
SSCs based on the Evaluation Guideline.
Existing supporting documentation is to be referenced. Include brief abstracts of
referenced documentation with enough of the salient facts to provide an understanding of
the referenced documentation and its relation to this chapter.
APPLICATION OF THE GRADED APPROACH. The results of the hazard analysis
provide a comprehensive evaluation of the complete DSA accident spectrum. This
evaluation will be essentially qualitative in that its aim is to produce a well reasoned and
clear assessment of facility hazards and their associated controls. The focus of hazard
analysis is on the completeness of consideration given to the accident spectrum, as
opposed to a formalized definition of accident sequences and assumptions. Summary
discussion of methodology is appropriate, but detailed bases for judgment and any simple
mathematical estimates used in the hazard analysis to guide the judgments of the analysis
for specific accident scenarios are not required to be formally documented in the DSA.
For a small subset of accidents, the accident analysis documents individual calculations
in the DSA, including references to its supporting documents. The accident analysis only
needs to provide sufficient calculations to support a comparison to the Evaluation
Guideline for the purpose of identifying safety-class SSCs.
In general, a graded approach dictates a more thoroughly documented assessment of
complex, high hazard facilities than simple, lower hazard facilities since grading is a
function of both hazard potential and complexity. The basic elements of hazard
identification, categorization, evaluation, and analysis are required for any facility
preparing a DSA in accordance with 10 CFR 830. The graded approach for hazard
analysis is a function of selecting techniques for hazard evaluation. The techniques used
for hazard evaluation can range from simple checklists or What-If analyses to systematic
parameter examinations such as Hazard and Operability Analyses (HAZOPs). The
technique selected need not be more sophisticated or detailed than is necessary to provide
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a comprehensive examination of the hazards associated with the facility operations. For
example, a simple storage operation may be adequately evaluated by a preliminary
hazard analysis or a structured What-IF analysis. There is no obligation for the analysts
to perform a complete HAZOP.
To achieve the objectives of analysis of accidents, the graded approach ranges from a
hazard analysis to a detailed quantitative analysis where formally quantified event trees
and/or fault trees form the bases for physical phenomena modeling and engineering
analysis. The level of analytical effort employed is primarily a function of magnitude of
hazard, but also takes into account system complexity, and the degree to which detailed
modeling can be meaningfully supported by system definition. For nonreactor nuclear
facilities, these considerations do not support a need for probabilistic/qualitative risk
assessment of overall facility operations. This Standard does not present an expectation
of or a requirement for probabilistic/qualitative risk assessment. Additionally, in
accordance with DOE-STD-1027, the hazard analysis as described in Section 3.3,
“Hazard Analysis,” of this Standard is sufficient to meet the 10 CFR 830 requirements of
accident analysis for Hazard Category 3 facilities. The hazard analysis should be
adequate to provide a simple estimate of bounding consequences for Hazard Category 3
facilities.
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It must be kept in mind that Hazard Category 3 facilities may also have chemical hazards.
The hazard classification mechanism used in DOE-STD-1027 does not consider the
potential hazardous chemical releases. The results of the hazard analysis will indicate
whether a facility contains significant chemical hazard(s) that may necessitate accident
analysis.
Accident analysis is also inherently graded in terms of the degree of physical modeling
and engineering analysis needed to quantify accident consequences and likelihoods. The
use of bounding assumptions and less detailed physical modeling in accident analysis is
appropriate. For example, where a given release has low consequences even if a filtered
ventilation system is bypassed, detailed modeling of filtered release parameters such as
filter differential pressure, plenum temperature, etc, is not needed for the given accident.
Formal, quantitative analysis of potential accident sequences as described in Section 3.4,
“Accident Analysis,” is not required to assess worker safety issues in addition to the
hazard analysis. The largely qualitative hazard evaluation described in Section 3.3,
which is a thorough analysis of potential accidents, is a more relevant vehicle for worker
safety assurance.
Additional guidance on hazard and accident may be gained from the following
references:
• Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, 1992.
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• “Hazard Categorization and Accident Analysis Techniques for Compliance with
DOE Order 5480.23, Nuclear Safety Analysis Reports” DOE-STD-1027.
• “Recommended Values and Technical Bases for Airborne Release Fractions
(ARFs), Airborne Release Rates (ARRs), and Respirable Fractions (RFs) at DOE
Non-Reactor Nuclear Facilities” DOE Handbook (HDBK)-3010.
• Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility Accident Analysts Handbook, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission NUREG-1320.
• “A Strategy for Occupational Exposure Assessment,” American Industrial
Hygienists Association, 1991.
• “Application of Hazard Evaluation Techniques to the Degree of Potentially
Hazardous Industrial Chemical Processes,” National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health No. 88-79897, March 1992.
• 29 CFR 1910.119, “Process Safety Management of High Hazardous Chemicals.”
CONTENT GUIDANCE FOR SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 3
3.1 INTRODUCTION
This section provides an introduction to the contents of this chapter based on the
graded approach and includes objectives and scope specific to the chapter as
developed.
3.2 REQUIREMENTS
This section lists the design codes, standards, regulations, and DOE Orders which
are required for establishing the safety basis of the facility. The intent is to
provide only the requirements that are specific for this chapter and pertinent to the
safety analysis, and not a comprehensive listing of all industrial standards or
codes or criteria. SRIDS may be referenced as appropriate.
3.3 HAZARD ANALYSIS
This section describes the hazard identification and evaluation performed for the
facility. The purpose of this information is to present a comprehensive evaluation
of potential process related, natural events, and man-made external hazards that
can affect the public, workers, and the environment due to single or multiple
failures. Consideration will be given to all modes of operation, including startup,
shutdown, and abnormal testing or maintenance configurations. As is standard
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industrial practice, examination of all modes of operation considers the potential
for both equipment failure and human error.
Hazard identification and evaluation provide a thorough, predominantly
qualitative evaluation of the spectrum of risks to the public, workers, and the
environment due to accidents involving any of the hazards identified. The
evaluation identifies preventive and mitigative features, including identification of
expected operator response to incidents (e.g., accident mitigation actions or
evacuation) and provisions for operator protection in the accident environment
(see Table 3-1, Action item/Comment column).
A basic flowchart for hazard/accident analysis is provided in Figure 3-1. The
major features of hazard analysis and the graded approach are captured in this
figure. Hazard identification provides the basis for the final hazard categorization
of the facility. That categorization is input for the graded approach for hazard
evaluation. Hazard Category 3 facilities are not required to perform formal,
quantitative accident analysis.
Figure 3-1 identifies the specific point where the analyst must move beyond the
general outline of this Standard and use the graded approach to specifically
determine appropriate hazard analysis methodology. Application of a graded
approach is based on the judgment and experience of the analysts and results in
the selection of a hazard evaluation technique such as Preliminary Hazard
Analysis (PHA), HAZOP, etc. As previously noted, more elaborate techniques
will generally be associated with more complex processes. Experience and
capabilities of analysts are also a major consideration in efficient performance of
a comprehensive hazard evaluation.
Systematic application of the chosen techniques to the operations in a facility
generates a number of basic accidents based on types of events and system
performance in response to the events. These accidents can be binned in
accordance with predefined consequence and frequency ranking thresholds.
Products of the hazard evaluation include:
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Figure 3-1. Flowchart for performing a hazard analysis.
3.3.1.1
Hazard
Identification
Type, form,
location, and
quantity
3.3.2.3.1
Planned design
and operational
safety
improvements
3.3.2.3.2
Defense in
depth
3.3.2.3.3
Facility
worker safety
3.3.2.3.4
Environmental
protection
Identification of
safety-significant
SSCs and TSRs
3.3.2.2
Hazard
Categorization
3.3.1.2
Hazard
Evaluation
Identify by type
(fire, explosion, spill,
etc.) and by category
(operational, natural
phenomena, and
external)
Basic
accidents
3.3.2.3.5
Accident
Selection
To accident analysis
(Figure 3-4)
No
Yes Accident analysis
not necessary
Exception would be
a chemical release
hazard approaching
Evaluation Guideline
Is
facility Hazard
Category 3?
{
}
}
Determine
appropriate
method of hazard
evaluation
(PHA, HAZOP,
etc)
Graded-
Approach Input
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• Identification of planned design and operational safety improvements.
• Summary of defense in depth including identification of safety-significant
SSCs and other items needing TSR coverage, including relevant programs
covered under TSR administrative controls.
• Summary of significant worker protection features including identification
of safety-significant SSCs and relevant programs covered under TSR
administrative controls.
• Summary of design and operational features that reduce the potential for
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large material releases to the environment.
• Selection of a limited set of bounding accidents (i.e., DBAs) to be further
developed in Section 3.4, “Accident Analysis.”
3.3.1 Methodology
This section presents the methodology used to identify and characterize hazards
and to perform a systematic evaluation of basic accidents.
3.3.1.1 Hazard Identification
This subsection identifies the method used by analysts to identify and inventory
hazardous materials and energy sources (in terms of quantity, form, and location)
associated with the facility processes or associated operations (e.g., waste
handling). This methodology first identifies sources of referenced information
that are not an integral part of the DSA hazard identification. Possible sources of
such information include fire hazard analyses, health and safety plans, job safety
analyses, occurrence reporting histories, etc.
The DSA covers worker safety issues related to hazards in processes and
associated activities. It is not the intention of the DSA to cover safety as it relates
to the common industrial hazards that make up a large portion of basic OSHA
regulatory compliance. It is important not to expend DSA resources on those
hazards for which national consensus codes and/or standards (e.g., OSHA
regulations) already define and regulate appropriate practices without the need for
special analysis. As noted in this Standard’s definition of “hazard,” standard
industrial hazards are identified only to the degree they are initiators and
contributors to accidents in main processes and activities. For example, worker
electrocution from electrical wiring faults is not a DSA issue. However, the
existence of 440 volt AC cabling in a glovebox would be identified as a potential
accident initiator for a scenario (i.e., fire) involving hazardous materials.
The distinction cited in the previous examples makes careful identification of
hazards covered in the DSA essential so that potential worker hazards are not
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overlooked. As part of the identification process, the basis that was used in the
hazard screening to remove standard industrial hazards or insignificant hazards
from further consideration needs to be presented as well. For these cases, the
DSA hazard analysis process interfaces with other programs such as specific
topics of OSHA compliance or general industrial safety. These interfaces must be
identified. Some of these compliance issues, while not presented in the DSA as
such, may be a portion of a safety management program committed to by the
facility. An example of this is the Health and Safety Plans required by OSHA in
accordance with the Hazard Waste Operations and Emergency Response program.
This could be one element of the “plans, procedures, and training for governing
operations involving radioactive and hazardous waste” specified in Section 9.3,
“Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Management Organization.”
This subsection also indicates the sources from which information was obtained,
such as flowsheet inventories, maximum historical inventories, vessel sizes,
contamination analyses, etc. The interpretation of the data used to derive
conservative inventory values needs to be provided.
3.3.1.2 Hazard Evaluation
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This subsection presents, in summary fashion, the basic approach and guidance
used for generating the largely qualitative consequence and likelihood estimates
in hazard evaluation. Reference detailed guidance as necessary. Additionally,
present any screening logic used for binning accidents. The appropriateness of
the overall methods used to evaluate hazards is presented and justified. This
justification focuses on the selection of a technique for given processes, not
justification from first principles of standard analysis methods, such as HAZOP.
3.3.2 Hazard Analysis Results
3.3.2.1 Hazard Identification
This subsection presents the results of the hazard identification activity, either by
direct inclusion of or by reference to the hazard identification data sheets. As a
minimum, provide a summary table identifying hazards by form, type, location,
and total quantity. The attributes of hazards identified in this section are the basis
for subsequent hazard evaluation and accident analysis. Include in the basic set of
hazards identified radionuclides, hazardous chemicals, flammable and explosive
materials used or potentially generated in facility processes, and any mechanical,
chemical, or electrical source of energy that may influence accident progression
involving such materials.
To provide a perspective on facility hazards, summarize in this subsection the
major accidents or hazardous situations (e.g., fires, explosions, loss of
confinement) that have occurred in the facility’s operating history. Specific
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details on each occurrence are not required. A general summary by type with
emphasis on the major occurrences will suffice.
3.3.2.2 Hazard Categorization
This subsection presents the results of the final hazard categorization activity
specified in DOE-STD-1027. Include the facility hazard categorization and,
where segmentation has been employed, the segment boundaries and individual
segment classifications. Justify any segmentation in terms of independence.
Where facility segmentation is used, provide the hazard breakdown by segment in
the summary table required in Section 3.3.2.1.
3.3.2.3 Hazard Evaluation
Hazard evaluation characterizes the identified hazards in the context of the actual
facility and process. For example, a simple hazard identification would be that
2000 grams of plutonium oxide are in a steel container under a hood waiting for
entry into a glove box. One accident, which places this hazard in the actual
context of facility parameters, involves spilling the container on the room floor.
The hazard evaluation would qualitatively consider the action of moving the
container into the glove box to evaluate the likelihood of spilling the contents. It
would also consider mitigative features that would affect potential consequences.
References such as Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures (1992) provide
acceptable guidelines for selecting hazard evaluation techniques and generic lists
of initiators that need to be incorporated in systematic evaluation with a given
technique.
Public and worker safety issues are the traditional focus of hazard evaluations.
The DSA hazard evaluation also examines the potential for large-scale
environmental contamination. The information on environmental contamination
may be used in a separate cost-benefit analysis, not related to the DSA effort, to
determine if additional preventive or mitigative features are needed in the facility.
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Tables 3-1 and 3-2 provide two examples of hazard analysis output. Table 3-1 is
an example of a portion of the evaluation of a hydrogen fluoride unloading
operation. It identifies accident initiators, associated preventive and mitigative
functions, and operational safety enhancements determined to be necessary. The
parenthetical numbers in the table under the headings of “Cause,” “Consequence,”
and “Frequency” distinguish a numbering system that serves to identify specific
accident scenarios (i.e., cause #1 is an event that has been judged to have
consequence #1 and frequency #1, resulting in the overall ranking aligned with
frequency #1). The ranking (i.e., low, medium, and high) of estimated
consequences and frequencies are based on judgment of analysts, and the overall
binning rank is in accordance with the numbers assigned to the example in Figure
3-2. Table 3-1 demonstrates how a number of basic accidents can be identified
and evaluated in a concise manner. The last column of Table 3-1 presents safety
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enhancements in the form of two procedural verifications and two action items for
procedural alteration that were identified in the course of the evaluation
Table 3-1. Example process hazard analysis worksheet
Facility: Example Refinery Date: 04/07/90 Page 3 of 30
Area: HF Alkylation
Unit: Unloading HF from Supply Tanker
Hazard Cause Protection and
mitigative systems
Consequence Frequency Ranking Action item/
Comment
(1) Anhy-
drous HF,
5,000
gallons.
(2) <100
psi
potential
energy
from
nitrogen
blanket.
(1) Leak at
connec-
tion point.
(2) HF hose
ruptures.
(3) HF hose
ruptures,
flow not
immedi-
ately shut
off.
(4) Truck
relief valve
fails open.
(5) Truck
relief valve
opens;
over-
pressure
conditions.
(6) Tanker
failure from
over-
pressure.
(7) N2 hose
ruptures.
(8) N2 hose
ruptures,
check valve
fails.
(9) HF line
not swept
after
unloading.
(A) Operators in
chemical suits with
respirators for
emergency use.
(B) Specific
procedures, trained
operators.
(C) HF detectors.
(D) HF line remote
shutoff valve on
truck.
(E) Emergency
relief valve capping
kit available.
(F) Two N2 pressure
regulators.
(G) Check valve on
N2 gas line.
Maximum N2
pressure less than
tanker design
pressure.
(H) Emergency
water deluge
system.
(1) Minor operator
exposure – LOW.
(2) Minor operator
exposure off site
<ERPG-2 – LOW.
(3) Operator
exposure, possibly
ERPG-2 off site –
MEDIUM.
(4) Typically (a)
LOW if capped.
Possibly (b)
MEDIUM if not
capped and no
deluge.
(5) Typically (a)
LOW if short
duration. Possibly
(b) MEDIUM if
longer and no
change.
(6) Possible
operator fatalities
and ERPG-3 off site
– HIGH.
(7) N2 leak – LOW.
(8) See item #5
above.
(9) Minor operator
exposure – LOW.
(1) HIGH
(2) MEDIUM
(3) LOW
(4) (a) MEDIUM
(4) (b) LOW
(5) (a) LOW
(5) (b) LOW
(6) LOW
(7) MEDIUM
(8) See #5
frequency
(9) HIGH
4
2
3
2
3
1
3
6
2
See item
#5
4
(1) Verify that
procedures provide
consistent leak-
check on fitting.
(2) Verify that
procedures provide
appropriately
defined interaction
between plant
personnel and truck
operators.
(3) Area should be
roped off and
access controlled
during unloading.
(4) Specific
evacuation routes
for operators
should be defined
in procedures.
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Table 3-2. Hazard analysis worksheet based on failure modes and effects analysis.
Location_________________________________
Project__________________________________
Date____________________________________
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Sheet____of_________________________
Ref. Drawing________________________
Process_____________________________
Plant Selection_______________________
Item
Line or
equipment
designation
Failure
or error
mode.
Effects on
components /
people
Effects
on
systems
How
detected
How
corrected
Frequency
class
Consequence
class
Action
required
Table 3-1 also provides an example of how worker safety issues are integrated
into this presentation. However, significant worker safety evaluations unrelated
to the hazards scope defined for a DSA (i.e., standard industrial hazards) will be
occurring outside the DSA. This reinforces the importance of the emphasis in
Section 3.3.1.1, “Hazard Identification,” of identifying the dividing line between
process/activity hazards covered in the DSA and those covered by direct OSHA
regulatory compliance. Specifying the location of this dividing line is essential to
developing an integrated safety posture where the functions of DSA hazard
analysis vis-a-vis health and safety plans, job task analyses, etc., is understood.
Table 3-2, although not filled out, provides an example of another type of
evaluation table. Whereas Table 3-1 is based more on a What-if or PHA-type
approach, Table 3-2 is based on a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
approach. The basic outputs, however, remain unchanged. The second example
is provided to indicate there is no one correct approach or presentation. The only
constant is that effort needs to be expended only to the level necessary to basically
characterize the accident spectrum.
Hazard evaluation presents potential accidents in terms of hazards, energy
sources, causes, preventive and mitigative features, consequence estimates, and
frequency estimates. Where a large number of scenarios are involved, present
simple summaries in the text of this chapter with detailed tables generated in the
performance of the hazard evaluation included as an appendix to the DSA.
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Figure 3-2. Worker safety evaluation.
YesSSCs
Information sources external to SAR
• Existing Process Hazards Analysis
• Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP)
• Fire Hazards Analysis
• Job Task Analysis
• Occurrence reports/lessons learned
• Other
TSR operational
Limit or administrative
Control (Chapter 5)
* This figure depicts the hazard analysis outputs for worker safety as described in Section 3.3.2.3.3.
Hazard
identification
Hazard analysis*
• Defense in depth
•Environmental protection
• Worker safety
Worker safety controls
• Administrative
• SSCs
Is
control
administrative
or a SSC? Describe
safety-significant
SSC (Chapter 4)
Commitment to overall
safety management
programs
Is it
a safety-
significant SSC?
(see safety-
significant SSC
definition)
Administrative
• TSR administrative controls as appropriate (Chapter 5)
• Safety management (Chapters 7 through 17)
No
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Beyond the basic results provided, the individual subheadings (Sections 3.3.2.3.1
through 3.3.2.3.5) of Section 3.3.2.3, “Hazard Evaluation,” present organized
summaries of specific topics of concern.
3.3.2.3.1 Planned Design and Operational Safety Improvements
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If the DSA preparer wants to make commitments to planned improvements not
yet implemented (as a result of the hazard evaluation), this section will identify
those major design and operational improvements. Summarize the basis for
committing to the improvement and, if needed, any interim controls proposed
until the improvement is implemented. Provide a general outline of the
improvement intended to the degree it has been conceptually finalized.
Due to capital costs, need for further study (e.g., technical issues, cost benefit),
procurement lead times, or other complications, it may not be feasible to
implement such design or operational improvements prior to DSA submittal.
DOE does not desire to unduly delay DSA completion for such items, and
numerous safety precedents acknowledge accepting work in progress.
Accordingly, the facility operator may choose to commit to implementation of an
improvement that is not reflected in current design or facility operations.
3.3.2.3.2 Defense in Depth
This section summarizes significant aspects of defense in depth, and identifies
associated safety-significant SSCs and other items needing TSR coverage.
Include both the facility design and administrative features of defense in depth.
Facility design germane to defense in depth typically includes SSCs that function
as:
• Barriers to contain uncontrolled hazardous material or energy release (e.g.,
metal dissolver vessel).
• Preventive systems to protect those barriers (e.g., hydrogen detection, air
purge, and shutdown systems for metal dissolver).
• Systems to mitigate uncontrolled hazardous material or energy release
upon barrier failure (e.g., ventilation zone confinement).
Administrative features are typically linked to the overall safety management
programs that directly control operations. Administrative features include the
following aspects of operator interfaces:
• Procedural restrictions or limits imposed.
• Manual monitoring of critical parameters.
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• Equipment support functions.
• Responses or actions counted on to limit abnormal conditions, accident
progression, or potential personnel exposure.
The individual features that comprise defense in depth are identified in “Hazard
Evaluation,” Section 3.3.2.3. Table 3-1 provides an example of how existing and
proposed features (barriers to uncontrolled hazardous material or energy release)
for specific operations are identified. The raw information in the hazard
evaluation tables will be examined and distilled into an organized discussion of
the elements of defense in depth. Relevant accidents may be used to frame and
focus the discussion, but the hazard evaluation already provided in or appended to
the DSA in tabular form should not be duplicated. Organize the presentation in a
systematic manner (i.e., inner to outer) to clearly identify the layers of defense.
Note that there is no requirement to demonstrate any generic, minimum number
of layers of defense. The intent is to support the conclusion that defense in depth
for a given hazard is commensurate with industrial practices for the relevant type
of activity.
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Identify the broad purpose and importance of defense-in-depth features, not the
details of their design or implementation. For example, a glovebox represents an
aspect of defense in depth. Only its major features and interactions with other
elements of defense in depth, such as ventilation zone confinement, need to be
summarized. It is not necessary to discuss the individual penetration fittings,
welded piping junctions, gloveport designs, etc., that allow the glovebox to
function as designed. Likewise, if there is a procedural requirement for the
operator to perform an action if a parameter is exceeded, it is not necessary to
identify the exact procedure, the exact phrasing of the requirement, the specific
details of how the operator accomplishes that action, etc. Stating the action,
providing a brief summary of its rationale, and noting that both procedures and
training needed to cover that action are sufficient.
Safety-Significant SSCs
Distinguish safety-significant SSCs from among those structures, systems, and
components contributing to defense in depth. To effectively use the graded-
approach concept, focus on the most important items of defense in depth whose
failure could result in the most adverse uncontrolled releases of hazardous
material. This Standard maintains that all SSCs with a safety function do not
require classification as equipment requiring detailed description in the DSA (i.e.,
safety-class SSCs and safety-significant SSCs). As noted in the Introduction, this
is one of the principle reasons for the emphasis on programmatic commitments.
The major features of defense in depth typically comprise the outer or
predominant means of mitigating uncontrolled release of hazardous materials
[e.g., ventilation system directing airflow to High Efficiency Particulate Air
(HEPA) filters, overall building structure], any preventive features that are
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designed to preclude highly energetic events that potentially threaten multiple
layers of defense in depth or essentially defeat any one layer (e.g., a hydrogen
detector and purge flow interlock on a vessel that prevents a large hydrogen
explosion, a sprinkler system that prevents a large fire that is physically possible
for a type of operation), or any SSCs needed to insure the availability of such
preventive or mitigative functions (e.g., electrical power sources for ventilation).
The total layers of defense in depth available are also key considerations in
designating safety-significant SSCs. If many effective barriers are available, the
significance of any one barrier is limited. If only one or two barriers can be
realistically counted on, their individual significance increases. Likewise, if total
hazardous material inventory is distributed over a hundred containers (e.g., waste
drum storage pad, plutonium storage vault), the failure of any one container does
not constitute a major uncontrolled hazardous material release. If all material is
held in one container (e.g., 3000 gallon hydrogen fluoride storage tank), the
failure of that container is of major concern in controlling the release of hazardous
material.
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A principle reason for designating such major features as safety-significant SSCs
is that they typically represent facility specific systems as opposed to more
generic systems. While all glovebox line facilities use zone systems of ventilation
for confinement, there is an enormous variation in the DOE complex with regard
to specific design parameters such as number and types of exhaust systems,
means of flow control, etc. Accordingly, more detailed descriptions of such
equipment in a DSA is considered both appropriate and necessary for Hazard
Category 2 facilities. Such description would not provide the same utility for
relatively generic confinement items such as 55-gallon waste drums. The need
for designation as a safety-significant SSC would also be superseded if that SSC
was designated as a safety-class SSC in accident analysis.
TSRs
Summarize those safety-significant SSCs and other aspects of defense in depth
that require TSR coverage. The scope of the TSR coverage is determined by the
degree to which barriers or the facility-safety basis are seriously challenged.
Vital, passive components such as piping, vessels, supports, structures, and
containers would typically be considered design features. These components are
discussed in the Design Features Section of the TSR document.. For example, a
glovebox is an obvious barrier to uncontrolled material release. The windows,
gloves, and cable/piping connectors are all necessary to maintain the barrier, but
do not specifically require operational limits or administrative controls as
contributors to defense in depth.
DOE G 423.1-1 provides basic screening criteria to identify defense-in-depth
features/items that may require specific TSR coverage. Such features include
instrumentation designed to detect significant barrier degradation; equipment that
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actuates or controls so as to reduce the likelihood of significant barrier challenges;
process variables controlled for that purpose; and active controls that prevent
criticality. Every control or indicator does not require specific TSR coverage.
Likewise, every design feature malfunction or abnormal condition does not
constitute a major barrier or facility safety basis degradation / challenge.
Significant challenges to the facility safety basis are typically those events which
have a genuine potential to seriously damage safety SSCs, require actuation of
safety SSCs not on line as part of normal operations, or approach conditions TSR
controls are designed to prevent. Significant barrier degradation is generally
considered to mean substantial loss of barrier function resulting in significant
hazardous material release to areas of personnel occupancy, or the occurrence of
highly energetic events with the potential to damage multiple barriers.
To further explore barrier degradation, consider a glovebox containing a dissolver
vessel. A leak from the dissolver would not be a major degradation of overall
confinement because:
• It is a slow, low energy phenomenon where the primary vessel itself
remains intact.
• The release is into another layer of confinement not occupied by
personnel.
Process upsets resulting in an eructation from the vessel would not be major
degradation either. Even small, vapor space deflagrations that rupture vessel
blowout ports would not be a major degradation if the glovebox itself would not
sustain significant damage.
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In contrast, consider a large hydrogen deflagration or detonation that ruptures the
vessel and piping, drives debris through the glovebox structural elements, and
momentarily pressurizes the glovebox. This is a highly energetic event and
multiple barriers have been damaged allowing a potentially significant release of
hazardous material directly to occupied areas. Possible TSR coverage could
include the maximum hydrogen concentration limits or requiring an air purge
system to be functioning when the dissolver is operating.
TSRs may also be provided for safety management programs in the form of TSR
administrative controls to support adequate defense in depth. Such all
encompassing TSRs should be used in lieu of individual TSRs for numerous
specific aspects of programs.
3.3.2.3.3 Worker Safety
This section summarizes the major features protecting workers from the hazards
of facility operation, exclusive of standard industrial hazards. Summary products
germane to worker safety typically include:
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• General overview of worker safety in terms of SSCs and administrative
features.
• Identification of any safety-significant SSCs.
• Identification of any safety management programs that will be assigned
TSR coverage in the form of administrative controls for adequate worker
safety.
General prioritization of the features needs to be included and expressed in terms
of the magnitude of process hazard, number of potentially affected employees,
pertinent aspects of operation history, and projected lifetime of the process. Only
a summary level discussion is required, not a detailed discussion or defense of the
prioritization logic. The safety features to be addressed in this section fall into
one of two categories:
• Structures, systems, and components.
• Administrative features.
This subsection is derived from examining the raw information in the hazard
evaluation tables (see Table 3-1 for example) and distilling it into a clear
overview of worker safety features at the facility. This presentation may use
relevant accidents to frame and focus the discussion, but need not duplicate the
hazard evaluation already provided in or appended to the DSA in tabular form. If
the basic function of a worker safety feature has already been discussed in Section
3.3.2.3.2, “Defense in Depth,” that feature may simply be identified by name and
referenced.
Identify structures, systems, and components as safety-significant SSCs where
appropriate. As a general rule of thumb, safety-significant SSC designations
based on worker safety are limited to those systems, structures, or components
whose failure is estimated to result in a prompt worker fatality or serious injuries
to workers or significant radiological or chemical exposures to workers (see
definition of safety-significant SSCs for further clarification).
Categorize administrative features in terms of the programmatic elements covered
in later chapters of the DSA. With the exception of safety-significant SSCs, TSR
designation is made in the form of administrative controls for overall programs
only for worker safety. Typical safety-management programs include criticality
protection, radiation protection, hazardous material protection, institutional safety
provisions, procedures and training, operational safety, and emergency
preparedness. Specifically note programs that will be provided TSR coverage as
administrative controls in Chapter 5, “Derivation of Technical Safety
Requirements.”
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Figure 3-3 shows how worker safety is addressed in the hazard analysis process.
This subsection provides documented evidence that worker safety features are an
integral part of facility design and operation, that basic facility operations for
worker safety are adequate, and that workers are protected by a number of means
including programs described elsewhere in the DSA (e.g., Chapters 7 and 8). It is
emphasized again that this subsection is written at a summary level. Identify the
broad purpose of features, but not the details of their design.
3.3.2.3.4 Environmental Protection
This subsection summarizes the design and operational features that reduce the
potential for large material releases to the environment. Document pathways for
uncontrolled release of large amounts of hazardous materials to the environment
identified in the hazard evaluation. Estimate potential consequences and
preventive and mitigative features associated with specific pathways. If specific
pathways have previously been addressed (e.g., Section 3.3.2.3.2, “Defense in
Depth”), a reference is sufficient.
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Figure 3-3. A three-by-three likelihood and consequence ranking matrix for
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This subsection should conclude that no large release with the potential to cause
significant environmental insult exists that an obvious and easily implemented
design or operational change could minimize. For example, consider widespread
river or groundwater contamination due to spills from the contents of a tank. It
would not be an appropriate conclusion to accept such a risk if a simple dike
around the tank would alleviate the problem and yet had not been installed.
Conversely, consider the handling of plutonium in a facility with gloveboxes,
ventilation zones of confinement, and HEPA filters. These measures would be
adequate for closure of environmental contamination concerns for process
accidents. In the majority of instances, process related TSRs and safety SSCs
assigned for defense in depth may be sufficient to address environmental
concerns.
This subsection is not intended to present detailed, cost-benefit conclusions about
the adequacy of design related to potential environmental contamination. It may
serve as input to separate cost-benefit analysis to determine if additional
preventive or mitigative features are to be added to the facility. However, such
analyses are not related to the DSA effort.
The numerical Evaluation Guideline and legal limits on normal operations [i.e.,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations] inherently place an upper
bound on potential environmental releases. Further, issues of environmental
contamination are not direct safety issues. Safety SSC designations are not
required for issues solely related to environmental protection. In accordance with
10 CFR 830, TSR designations are not required for such issues
either. TSR designation associated with prevention of uncontrolled release of
hazardous materials would typically be assigned for defense-in-depth
considerations.
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3.3.2.3.5 Accident Selection
Accident analysis entails the formal quantification of a limited subset of accidents
(i.e., DBAs). These accidents represent a complete set of bounding conditions.
The identification of DBAs results from the hazard evaluation ranking of the
complete spectrum of facility accidents.
Figure 3-2 and Tables 3-3 through 3-5 provide examples of hazard evaluation
ranking mechanisms. Two examples are provided to indicate there is more than
one correct approach. The approach used at any specific facility is based on the
detail needed for a given facility and the experience of the analysts. Figure 3-2 is
a graphical example of a common three-by-three frequency and consequence
ranking matrix. This particular example was used for evaluating airborne
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Table 3-3. Qualitative severity classification table.
Descriptive
word Description
No Negligible on-site and off-site impact on people or
the environs.
Low Minor on-site and negligible off-site impact on
people or the environs.
Moderate Considerable on-site impact on people or the
environs; only minor off-site impact.
High Considerable on-site and off-site impacts on
people or the environs.
Table 3-4. Qualitative likelihood classification table.
Estimated annual
Descriptive likelihood of
word occurrence Description
Anticipated 10-1>p>10-2 Incidents that may occur several
times during the lifetime of the
facility. (Incidents that commonly
occur)
Unlikely 10-2>p>10-4 Accidents that are not anticipated
to occur during the lifetime of the
facility. Natural phenomena of
this probability class include:
Uniform Building Code-level
earthquake, 100-year flood,
maximum wind gust, etc.
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Extremely 10-4>p>10-6 Accidents that will probably not
Unlikely occur during the life cycle of the
facility. This class includes the
design basis accidents.
Beyond Extremely 10-6>p All other accidents.
Unlikely
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Table 3-5. Qualitative ranking.
Risk
Description evaluation
No impact or beyond
extremely unlikely.
Low severity and
extremely unlikely. Acceptable
Moderate severity and
extremely unlikely or low
severity and unlikely.
High severity and
extremely unlikely or low
severity and anticipated.
Marginal
Moderate severity and
Unlikely.
Moderate severity and
anticipated or high
severity and unlikely.
Unacceptable
High severity and
anticipated.
hazardous material releases. The logic behind Figure 3-2 is elaborated on in
Tables 3-3 through 3-5, which provide a description of a four-by-four frequency
and consequence ranking matrix. Although differing in presentation and
structural details, the philosophical basis and objectives for both examples are
identical. The ranking schemes are designed to separate the lower risk accidents
that are adequately assessed by hazard evaluation from higher risk accidents that
may warrant additional quantitative analysis if the phenomena involved are not
simplistic. A limited number of moderate risk accidents between the two
extremes may also be identified for assessment. Tables 3-3 through 3-5 provide
typical descriptions of consequence and likelihood thresholds for binning.
Ranking should use broad bins. For example, frequency bins should typically
cover two orders of magnitude.
Although the exercise of binning is essentially qualitative, analysts often use a
simple numerical basis for judgments to provide consistency. For example, a
simple methodology for frequency binning would be to assign a probability of 1
to nonindependent events, 0.1 to human errors, and 0.01 to genuinely independent
failures. Another methodology would be to use a summary of historical data.
Likewise, before beginning the evaluation, a conservative Gaussian plume
estimation of the amount of material needed outside the building to cause a
certain dose might be performed to aid in defining thresholds of significance.
Briefly discuss or reference any such guidelines in Section 3.3.1.2, “Hazard
Evaluation.” Note, however, that the ranking of frequency and consequence into
such broad categories is more of a qualitative than a quantitative exercise. This
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effort does not constitute the need for, or expectation of, a probabilistic /
quantitative risk assessment.
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An important factor in estimating binning thresholds for public consequences is to
tie the thresholds to the Evaluation Guideline so that accidents that could
challenge the guideline are correctly identified for formal accident analysis. The
binning requirement of this subsection does not preclude the use of other sorting
mechanisms in addition to risk sorting if an analyst finds such mechanisms useful.
This accident selection activity identifies the process and criteria used to select the
unique and representative potential accidents (i.e., DBAs) to be included in
accident analysis. Unique accidents are those with sufficiently high-risk estimates
that individual examination is needed (e.g., a single fire whose specific
parameters result in approaching the Evaluation Guideline, situations of major
concern from Figure 3-2). Representative accidents bound a number of similar
accidents of lesser risk (e.g., the worst fire for a number of similar fires, situations
of concern in Figure 3-2). Representative accidents are examined to the extent
they are not bounded by unique accidents. In any case, at least one bounding
accident from each of the major types determined from the hazard analysis (e.g.,
fire, explosion, spill, etc.) should be selected unless the bounding consequences
are “Low” (See Figure 3-2). Accidents are identified and listed by accident
category (i.e., internally and externally initiated) and type (e.g., fire, explosion,
spill, etc.).
Since the hazard analysis activity is considered sufficient for Hazard Category 3
facilities, DSAs for these facilities need simply summarize the maximum
consequences expected from facility operation and state that detailed accident
quantification is not necessary because potential consequences are well below the
Evaluation Guideline. A possible exception to this case, as previously noted, is a
facility with Hazard Category 3 quantities of radionuclides but possessing large
amounts of toxic chemicals. Such facilities need to summarize the maximum
radiological consequences expected and identify the chemical accidents selected
for accident analysis.
3.4 ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
This section presents the formal development of the potential accidents identified
in Section 3.3.2.3.5, “Accident Selection,” beginning with a formal sequence of
developing connecting initiating events to preventive feature and mitigative
feature responses. A basic flowsheet for accident analysis is presented in Figure
3-4. The principal purpose of the accident analysis is to identify any safety-class
SSCs and TSRs needed for protection of the public.
Each accident sequence needs to be analyzed through the use of a documented,
deterministic, DBA. Whenever possible, DBAs are analyzed using the simplest
applicable deterministic, phenomenological calculations (e.g. pressure estimates
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from a simple ideal gas law calculation, hand calculated Gaussian plume
dispersions). The nondeterministic aspects of DBA analysis are simplified by
estimating overall sequence frequencies in broad frequency ranges in hazard
analysis. This process is considered sufficient for DSA purposes and accident
analysis need only document the basis for the binning performed in hazard
analysis. Detailed probabilistic calculations are neither expected nor required.
Natural events and man-made external events are special cases. Natural event
DBAs are those events with a phenomenon initiating frequency as specified in
DOE 420.1 and its applicable standards. External events are not typically design
bases for facilities. However, they will be referred to as DBAs and analyzed as
such if frequency of occurrence is estimated to exceed 10-6/yr conservatively
calculated, or 10-7/yr realistically calculated.
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Accident analysis typically starts with formal descriptions of accident scenarios.
Such descriptions may be supported by basic event trees. All major assumptions
in scenarios must be identified. The next step is determination of accident source
terms. Source terms for accidents are obtained through phenomenological and
system response calculations. Once a source term has been determined,
consequences due to atmospheric dispersion or other relevant pathways of
concern are determined. As with every phase of the analysis, the effort expended
is a function of the estimated consequence. If the source term is small, a simple,
dispersion hand calculation for consequences would be sufficient. If source terms
are large, computer modeling to determine consequences may be required. The
consequences finally determined are compared to the Evaluation Guideline (see
Appendix A). From this activity, it is determined if safety-class SSC designation
is needed. The need for accident specific TSRs to meet the Evaluation Guideline
will also be determined. Detailed description of safety-class SSCs and TSRs are
presented in Chapter 4, “Safety Structures, Systems, and Components,” and
Chapter 5, “Derivation of Technical Safety Requirements.”
The nature of the accidents to be analyzed will vary depending upon the facility
and processes considered. However, it is anticipated that for most facilities or
processes, the number of accidents requiring formal analysis will not be large.
The categories of DBAs examined are:
• Operational accidents (caused by initiators internal to the facility).
• Natural events (e.g., earthquakes, tornadoes).
• Man-made external events (caused by man-made initiators external to the
facility).
All assumptions made in the accident analysis (i.e., defining points in scenario
progression) are to be validated as part of the accident analysis activity. For
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Figure 3-4. Flowchart for performing an accident analysis.
example, if an operator is supposed to push Button Z to stop an accident
progression, the accident analysis needs to make it clear that the operator can
actually do so. Making it clear may simply involve noting there is no physical
phenomena associated with the accident that would preclude him from doing so.
Likewise, basic assurance must be provided that equipment relied upon in unusual
or severe environments will function. This assurance does not constitute the need
for or expectation of full, formal environmental qualification.
The above guidance is not meant to imply that the DSA must contain detailed
validations for all assumptions. The DSA needs to present information at a level
that is considered sufficient for review and approval of the DSA. Referencing an
auditable trail of information as part of the controlled supporting documentation is
acceptable.
Unique and representative
accidents from hazard
analysis (e.g., DBAs)
(from Figure 3-1)
3.4.2.X.1
Scenario Development
3.4.2.X.2
Source-Term Analysis
3.4.2.X.3
Consequence Analysis
3.4.2.X.4
Comparison to
Evaluation Guideline
Identification of
safety-class SSCs
and TSRs
Graded-
approach input
Hazard
categorization
Binning
estimates
from hazard
analysis
Determine
appropriate level
of analytical
detail
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3.4.1 Methodology
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This section summarizes the methods used to quantify the consequences of
operational accidents, natural external events, and man-made external events
selected in Section 3.3.2.3.5, “Accident Selection.” Identify and describe any
computer programs used to implement methods discussed below. Include in the
description the origin of the code, its precedent for use, input data, the range of
variables investigated, the basic analytical models, their interrelationships, and the
progression of the analysis. Briefly summarize and reference detailed information
on algorithms, computational and analytical bases, and software quality assurance
measures.
Documentation of methodology should include the following:
• Methods used to estimate radiological or other hazardous material source
terms for DBAs including: (1) basic approach for estimating physical
facility damage from DBAs; (2) general basis for assigning material-at-
risk quantities not directly derived from hazard identification, if differing
values are used; and (3) basis for material release and respirable fractions
or release rates used.
• Methods used to estimate dose and exposure profiles including
assumptions on variables such as meteorological conditions, time
dependent characteristics, activity, and release rates or duration for
radioactive or other hazardous materials that could be released to the
environment.
3.4.2 Design Basis Accidents
This section analyzes DBAs for each of the major categories to quantify
consequences and compare them to the Evaluation Guideline. The major
categories are: internally initiated operational accidents (e.g., fires, explosions,
spills, criticality); natural events for the site (e.g., earthquakes, tornadoes) that
could affect the facility; and man-made externally initiated events such as airplane
crashes, transportation accidents, adjacent facility events, etc., that can either
cause releases at the facility under examination or have a major impact on facility
operations. Beyond DBAs are discussed in Section 3.4.3, “Beyond Design Basis
Accidents.”
Quantification methods are typically limited to calculating the dose profile of a
release. The process is iterative, starting by taking no credit for mitigative features
and comparing results to the Evaluation Guideline. Continue taking credit for
additional mitigative features incrementally and comparing the results to the
Evaluation Guideline until below the guideline. This iterative process, however,
does not require denying the physical design of facility structures, systems, and
components. For example, if liquid hazardous material is brought into a facility
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in steel piping and stored in steel tanks, it is not meaningful to disregard the
existence of these physical features in analysis. Simply admitting they exist does
not require safety-class SSC designation either. Stated another way, facilities
should be analyzed as they exist when quantifying meaningful release
mechanisms.
Note: The following format is repeated sequentially for each (“X”) DBA.
3.4.2.X [Applicable DBA]
Identify the DBA by individual title, category (i.e., operational, natural, man-
made external) and general type (e.g., fire, explosion, spill, earthquake, tornado).
3.4.2.X.1 Scenario Development
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This subsection describes accident progression linking initiating events with
preventive and mitigative events and other contributing phenomena to formally
define the accidents identified in Section 3.3.2.3.5, “Accident Selection.” Note
each response, action, or indication required to initiate action that is relevant to
the scenario progression. Document the rationale used in hazard analysis for
binning the DBA in a broad frequency range.
When summarizing the initiating event for a given natural event DBA, use DOE
420.1 and its applicable standards (i.e., DOE-STD-1020 through -1024) to
determine the natural event DBAs for the facility. Design basis guidelines
include, among others, load factors, return periods, amplification factors for the
facility, etc. Summarize facility and equipment response (emphasizing preventive
or mitigative equipment) to the loads postulated to be present at the time the given
natural event occurs. Reference the facility documentation of this evaluation and
summarize relevant assumptions. Discuss the degree of conservatism of the
evaluation.
Evaluate secondary events directly caused by natural events, such as earthquake
induced fires, based on their physical possibility for facility conditions (i.e., the
induced accident must already potentially exist in the absence of the seismic
event). For example, seismic induced fires should be considered DBAs where
significant accumulations of flammable material are exposed to fire initiators by
seismic damage to the facility. If minimal combustible material is present in a
given location, a large seismic induced fire in that location would not be a DBA
as the potential is not physically possible.
Although external events are not typically design bases, this Standard considers
them as DBAs if the frequency of occurrence is estimated to exceed 10-6/yr
conservatively calculated, or 10-7/yr realistically calculated. The specific use of
this NRC frequency precedent is limited to external events only due to their
unique nature. External events are presented because frequency criteria for
inclusion are met. Accordingly, the analysis that substantiates frequency need
only be referenced.
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3.4.2.X.2 Source Term Analysis
This subsection determines the accidental material or energy released through the
pathways of concern. Define all parameters and phenomenological models used
to derive the source term. As a minimum, this definition includes the material at
risk (as derived from the hazard identification), the release fraction or rate that
determines the initial source term, and the overall facility leakpath factors that
determine the final source term released external to the facility. The degree of
conservatism believed to be present in the calculation needs to be consistent with
the Evaluation Guideline definition. Detailed quantification of uncertainty is not
required.
3.4.2.X.3 Consequence Analysis
This subsection determines the receptor doses associated with the relevant
pathways. Derive the doses in accordance with the definition of the Evaluation
Guideline.
The information derived from the hazard and accident analyses related to
protection of the public and potential insights gained for environmental
contamination issues needs to be compared to the facility National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) documentation to ensure that no significant discrepancies
exist between the DSA and that documentation.
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3.4.2.X.4 Comparison to the Evaluation Guideline
This subsection compares the unmitigated receptor dose for the accident sequence
to the Evaluation Guideline. If the Evaluation Guideline is exceeded, provide a
summary assessment of the significance of the exceedance and administrative
and/or engineered controls whose implementation would prevent or mitigate the
accident sequence. Detailed cost-benefit analyses to evaluate potential changes
are beyond the scope of the DSA.
3.4.2.X.5 Summary of Safety-Class SSCs and TSR Controls
This subsection identifies the safety-class SSCs and assumptions judged to require
TSR coverage. Any TSR assumption not directly related to exceeding of the
Evaluation Guideline should be defined in section 3.3.2.3.2, “Defense in Depth.”
For details, refer to Chapter 4, “Safety Structures, Systems, and Components,”
and Chapter 5, “Derivation of Technical Safety Requirements.”
3.4.3 Beyond Design Basis Accidents
The Rule requires consideration of the need for analysis of accidents which may
be beyond the design basis of the facility to provide a perspective of the residual
risk associated with the operation of the facility The beyond DBAs serve as bases
for cost-benefit considerations if consequences exceeding the Evaluation
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Guideline are identified in the beyond DBA range. However, such cost-benefit
analysis would be performed outside the DSA with the concurrence of DOE.
It is expected that beyond DBAs will not be analyzed to the same level of detail as
DBAs. The requirement is that an evaluation be performed that simply provides
insight into the magnitude of consequences of beyond DBAs (i.e., provide
perspective on potential facility vulnerabilities). This insight from beyond DBA
analysis has the potential for identifying additional facility features that could
prevent or reduce severe beyond DBA consequences. For nonreactor nuclear
facilities, however, the sharp increase in consequences from DBA to beyond DBA
is not anticipated to approach that found in commercial reactors where the beyond
DBA precedent was generated. No lower limit of frequency for examination is
provided for beyond DBAs whose definition is frequency dependent. It is
understood that as frequencies become very low, little or no meaningful insight is
attained.
Operational beyond DBAs are simply those operational accidents with more
severe conditions or equipment failures than are estimated for the corresponding
DBA. For example, if a deterministic DBA assumed releases were filtered
because accident phenomenology did not damage filters, the same accident with
loss of filtration is a beyond DBA. The same concept holds true for natural
events, but beyond DBAs are defined by the initiating frequency of the natural
event itself (i.e., frequency of occurrence less than DBA frequency of
occurrence). Beyond DBAs are not evaluated for man-made external events.
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Chapter 4
Safety Structures, Systems, and
Components
PURPOSE. The purpose of this DSA chapter is to provide information necessary to
support the safety basis requirements of 10 CFR 830 for derivation of hazard controls.
This chapter provides details on those facility structures, systems, and components that
are necessary for the facility to protect the public, provide defense in depth, or contribute
to worker safety. Descriptions are provided of the attributes (i.e., functional requirements
and performance criteria) required to support the safety functions identified in the hazard
and accident analyses and to support subsequent derivation of TSRs. Expected products
of this chapter, as applicable based on the graded approach, include:
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• Descriptions of safety SSCs, including safety functions.
• Identification of support systems safety SSCs depend upon to carry out safety
functions.
• Identification of the functional requirements necessary for the safety SSCs to
perform their safety functions, and the general conditions caused by postulated
accidents under which the safety SSCs must operate.
• Identification of the performance criteria necessary to provide reasonable
assurance that the functional requirements will be met.
• Identification of assumptions needing TSR coverage.
Existing supporting documentation is to be referenced. Maximum advantage should be
taken of pertinent existing safety analyses and design information (i.e., requirements and
their bases) that are immediately available or can be retrieved through reasonable efforts.
Include a brief summary for each such reference that explains its relevance to this chapter
and provides an introductory understanding of the reference.
APPLICATION OF THE GRADED APPROACH. Hazard Category 3 facilities will not have
safety-class SSCs and the number of safety-significant SSCs, if any, will be less than that
of a Hazard Category 2 facility due to the reduced magnitude of hazards. As noted in
Chapter 3, “Hazard and Accident Analyses,” a possible exception to this general
guidance pertains to chemical hazards. The hazard classification mechanism used in
DOE-STD-1027-92 does not consider potential hazardous chemical releases. It is
possible that a Hazard Category 3 facility could need safety-class items for large
chemical hazards, although it is not typically expected.
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Hazard Category 2 facilities have the potential for an accident resulting in significant
onsite consequences and may have consequences offsite. These facilities
characteristically have safety-significant SSCs. They may need safety-class SSCs as
well, although this is not typically expected.
Hazard Category 2 and 3 facilities do not have the consequence potential associated with
Hazard Category 1 facilities, such as Class A reactors. Consequently, in keeping with the
use of a graded approach, the means of safety assurance expected of Class A reactors,
such as formal design reconstitution and full, formal environmental qualification, are
generally unsuitable for Hazard Category 2 and 3 facilities. DSA preparers (and
subsequent reviewers) should not expect this level of information to be attained,
especially for SSCs for which the original design is not documented.
Precedent for dealing with facilities where the original technical information is
undocumented and must be estimated has been provided by OSHA in the PSM
rulemaking where it was stated “OSHA believed that a properly conducted process
hazard analysis should systematically identify technical information regarding the
process and allow adequate estimation of safe parameters for the process.” The actual
requirement imposed by OSHA was “where the original technical information no longer
exists, such information may be developed in conjunction with the process hazard
analysis in sufficient detail to support the analysis.”
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The DSA specifically requires determination of safety functions and functional
requirements for safety SSCs and designation of performance criteria. However, a DSA
prepared in accordance with this Standard is focused on identifying functional
requirements that, in general, are neither absolute nor subject to fine safety margin
resolution. Further, associated performance criteria are only defined for critical
operational aspects of SSCs, not general design. As noted in the preceding paragraph, if
the design information no longer exists, new information may be developed as part of the
process hazard analysis. However, pertinent existing safety analyses and design
information (requirements and their bases) that are immediately available or can be
retrieved through reasonable efforts should be used. For additional technical information
that is critical to the DSA development and is not retrievable through such efforts, new
information may be developed as part of the hazard analyses and accident analyses.
Documented engineering judgments (including their bases) and testing can be used to
extrapolate the available existing information and hence establish the performance
capabilities of the existing SSCs. In general, safety-class SSCs require more formality in
establishing functional requirements and performance criteria than safety-significant
SSCs due to their public protection function.
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CONTENT GUIDANCE FOR SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 4
4.1 INTRODUCTION
This section provides an introduction to the contents of this chapter based on the
graded approach and includes objectives and scope specific to the chapter as
developed.
4.2 REQUIREMENTS
This section lists the design codes, standards, regulations, and DOE Orders which
are required for establishing the safety basis of the facility. The intent is to
provide only the requirements that are specific for this chapter and pertinent to the
safety analysis, and not a comprehensive listing of all industrial standards or
codes or criteria. SRIDs may be referenced as appropriate.
4.3 SAFETY-CLASS SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES, AND COMPONENTS
Relevant information is provided, in the following SSC specific subsections, for
safety-class SSCs with descriptions sufficiently detailed to provide an
understanding of the safety function of safety-class SSCs. Descriptions for each
safety-class SSC must be complete enough to indicate suitability of safety
analysis inputs and assumptions. Provide a summary list of safety-class SSCs.
This summary list should identify, in tabular form, safety-class SSCs, the
accidents from Chapter 3 for which safety-class designation was made, safety
functions, functional requirements, and performance criteria judged to require
TSR coverage. The remaining subsections provide details that correlate to the
summary list.
Note: The following format is repeated sequentially for each (“X”) safety-class
SSC. The examples provided are for illustration purposes only, and should not be
construed as a requirement to designate such systems safety-class or safety-
significant.
4.3.X [Applicable Safety-class System, Structure, or
Componen