5.8.1 Statutory requirements, standards, CEGB policy and guidance

Externa( requirements

All nuclear site licences include a quality assurance condition, the text of which is given in Appendix B.

Other requirements to establish quality assurance arrangements come from the Department of Transport in respect of the transport of radioactive materials (which are required to comply with the IAEA Trans­port Regulations) and the BNFL Conditions of Ac­ceptance of Radioactive Waste.

Standards

The IAEA have published a code of practice for QA for safety in nuclear power plants (50-C-QA). This is supported by safety guides covering a range of topics including operational QA (50-SG-QA5), records (50-SG-QA2) and auditing (50-SG-QA10).

British Standard BS5882: ‘Specification for a Total

Quality Assurance Programme for Nuclear Installa­tions’ has been adopted by the CEGB as the standard specification for its QA arrangements as the ‘owner’ of nuclear power stations.

British Standard BS5750: ‘Quality Systems’ is ap­

propriate to companies providing materials or services to the CEGB. BS5750 has three parts which are se­lected by consideration of the nature of the service provided by the company rather than the level of QA required. It is important to realise that each contract must adequately specify what is required, and not rely on a company system to produce the required quality automatically.

Nil guidance

When the Nil first imposed a site licence condition requirement for the CEGB to submit formal QA do­cumentation for approval, a guide was produced for the Nil Assessors to use in their consideration of the documentation and for the information of the licensee. This has been reissued as the Nil Guide to Quality Assurance Programmes for Nuclear Instal­lations (NII/R/8/85) Issue 3 — March 1985.