Overview:
ASME’s Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) Standard provides quality assurance requirements and guidance applicable to all phases of a nuclear facility’s life cycle and is applicable to all structures, systems, components, activities, or organizations that are essential for the safe, reliable, and efficient performance of a nuclear facility. Applicable to all large light water reactors and future advanced reactors including SMRs.
Key Features and Applications to this revision include:
Key Features:
Quality Assurance Program
Design Control
Control of Non-Conforming Items and Corrective Actions
Commercial Grade Dedication
Engineering and Procurement Processes
Quality Program Management Process
Waste Management
Handling, Storage, and Shipping
Document Control
Inspection
Quality Assurance Records
Applications:
Design of advance reactors, including SMRs
Facilities for power generation
Spent fuel and high-level waste storage
Waste management
Fuel reprocessing
Nuclear material processing
Fuel fabrication
Nuclear material research
Purpose:
The ASME NQA-1 Standard provides a comprehensive framework for nuclear quality assurance (QA) programs, ensuring safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance in nuclear facilities. It establishes requirements for quality assurance processes, covering activities from design and procurement to construction, operations, and decommissioning.
Scope:
The NQA-1 Standard applies to a wide range of safety-related systems throughout all phases of a nuclear facility’s life cycle. These include instrumentation and control systems, waste processing and storage systems, procurement and quality assurance systems, personnel training and qualification programs, nonconforming materials and component management, and software verification, validation, and maintenance systems.
Major Changes in this revision include:
Addition of paragraphs 406.1.1 and 406.1.2 in Part III, Subpart 3.2-2.7.1 for Identifying and evaluating Changes in the Operating Environment.
Revised Part I, Requirement 18 and Subpart 3.1-18.1 to address audit preparation and develop more guidance for planning audits, audit implementation, audit conclusions, and reporting.
Added definitions for assure and ensure.
Added requirements regarding acceptance of accreditation to Part II, Subpart 2.19 paragraphs 201 and 202.
Deleted Part III, Subpart 3.3.
Updated Sample Form for Record of Lead Auditor Qualification
Restructured Subpart 2.7 and Subpart 3.2-2.7.1
Intended for anyone engaged in nuclear facility quality assurance, including those responsible for: design, engineering, and construction; operation, maintenance, and decommissioning; regulatory compliance and inspection; equipment and material supply; waste management and storage; quality program implementation; and advanced reactor development.
Overview:
ASME’s Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) Standard provides quality assurance requirements and guidance applicable to all phases of a nuclear facility’s life cycle and is applicable to all structures, systems, components, activities, or organizations that are essential for the safe, reliable, and efficient performance of a nuclear facility. Applicable to all large light water reactors and future advanced reactors including SMRs.
Key Features and Applications to this revision include:
Key Features:
- Quality Assurance Program
- Design Control
- Control of Non-Conforming Items and Corrective Actions
- Commercial Grade Dedication
- Engineering and Procurement Processes
- Quality Program Management Process
- Waste Management
- Handling, Storage, and Shipping
- Document Control
- Inspection
- Quality Assurance Records
Applications:
- Design of advance reactors, including SMRs
- Facilities for power generation
- Spent fuel and high-level waste storage
- Waste management
- Fuel reprocessing
- Nuclear material processing
- Fuel fabrication
- Nuclear material research
Purpose:
The ASME NQA-1 Standard provides a comprehensive framework for nuclear quality assurance (QA) programs, ensuring safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance in nuclear facilities. It establishes requirements for quality assurance processes, covering activities from design and procurement to construction, operations, and decommissioning.
Scope:
The NQA-1 Standard applies to a wide range of safety-related systems throughout all phases of a nuclear facility’s life cycle. These include instrumentation and control systems, waste processing and storage systems, procurement and quality assurance systems, personnel training and qualification programs, nonconforming materials and component management, and software verification, validation, and maintenance systems.
Major Changes in this revision include:
- Addition of paragraphs 406.1.1 and 406.1.2 in Part III, Subpart 3.2-2.7.1 for Identifying and evaluating Changes in the Operating Environment.
- Revised Part I, Requirement 18 and Subpart 3.1-18.1 to address audit preparation and develop more guidance for planning audits, audit implementation, audit conclusions, and reporting.
- Added definitions for assure and ensure.
- Added requirements regarding acceptance of accreditation to Part II, Subpart 2.19 paragraphs 201 and 202.
- Deleted Part III, Subpart 3.3.
- Updated Sample Form for Record of Lead Auditor Qualification
- Restructured Subpart 2.7 and Subpart 3.2-2.7.1
Intended for anyone engaged in nuclear facility quality assurance, including those responsible for: design, engineering, and construction; operation, maintenance, and decommissioning; regulatory compliance and inspection; equipment and material supply; waste management and storage; quality program implementation; and advanced reactor development.
