Regional Basic Professional Training Course in Korea

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10-A. Limiting Conditions for Operation
10.4. LCOs DOCUMENT ‐ KOREA EXPERIENCE
10.4.1. Introduction
Operational technical specifications regulate the operational limits and action items based
on safety analysis of design basis accidents. The purpose of operational technical
specifications is to impose those conditions of limitations upon reactor operations
necessary to obviate the possibility of an abnormal situation or event giving rise to an
immediate threat to the public health and safety by identifying those features that are of
controlling importance to safety and establishing on their certain conditions of operation
which cannot be changed without prior regulatory body approval.
Operational technical specifications consists of, "Operation of Nuclear Reactor
Facilities", "Radiation and Environment of Nuclear Reactor Facilities" and "The
Administrative Control of Nuclear Reactor Facilities". According to article 21 clause 2 of
the Atomic Energy Act(Operating License), the licensees must submit an operational
technical specifications when applying for operating license, and according to article 16
of the Enforcement Regulation (items needed to be included in operational technical
specifications), the operational technical specifications must include safety limit, LCOs,
surveillance requirements, design characteristics, radiation protection, environmental
preservation from nuclear plant facilities, and administrative control. In the US, the
contents of the "operation of nuclear reactor facilities," and "administrative control of
nuclear reactor facilities" are described in 10CFR 50.36 (technical specifications)