Advanced Reactor Content of Application Project

On this page:

• Purpose
• Table 1 – ARCAP/TI-CAP Public Meetings
• Table 2 – Draft ARCAP/TI-CAP Publicly Issued Documents
• Table 3 – TIRICE Public Meetings/Documents

Purpose

The purpose of the Advanced Reactor Content of Application Project (ARCAP) is to develop technology-inclusive, risk-informed and performance-based application guidance. The ARCAP is broader and encompasses the industry-led Technology-Inclusive Content of Application Project (TI-CAP). These projects build on the outcome of the Licensing Modernization Project.

The ARCAP guidance is intended to be used for an advanced reactor application for a combined license, construction permit, operating license, design certification, standard design approval, or manufacturing license. The industry-led TI-CAP's purpose is to develop the content for specific portions of the safety analysis report (SAR) that would be used to support an advanced reactor application. The TI-CAP portion of the SAR will be informed by the guidance found in in NEI 18-04, Revision 1, "Risk-Informed Performance-Based Technology-Inclusive Guidance for Non-Light Water Reactor Licensing Basis Development."

ARCAP is a long-term project that will support the near-term advanced reactor applicants under 10 CFR Part 50 and Part 52, and also support the 10 CFR Part 53 rulemaking effort.  NRC staff has developed the "Non-Light Water Reactor Review Strategy Staff White Paper," dated September 2019, to provide internal guidance for the review of non-LWR applications in the near-term.

Another effort associated with ARCAP and TI-CAP is the Technology Inclusive, Risk-Informed Change Evaluation (TIRICE) process.  TIRICE provides an alternative change evaluation process for determining if NRC approval is required before implementing certain facility changes to reactors that were licensed using the methodologies in NEI 18-04.  The industry’s proposed guidance document for implementing the TIRICE process is NEI 22-05, “Technology Inclusive Risk Informed Change Evaluation (TIRICE): Guidance for the Evaluation of Changes to Facilities Utilizing NEI 18-04 and NEI 21-07.”

Table 1 – ARCAP/TI-CAP Public Meetings

Table 2 – Draft ARCAP/TI-CAP Publicly Issued Documents

(Note:  The documents in Table 2 are provided for information and should not be considered
as official NRC regulatory guidance, unless otherwise endorsed or published as such.) 

Table 3 – TIRICE Public Meetings/Documents