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Directives are the Department of Energy's primary means of establishing policies, requirements, responsibilities, and procedures for Departmental elements and contractors.

Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to DOE standards and directives that impact nuclear safety.

Design, evaluation, and upgrades of buildings, systems, and equipment to ensure that both direct and indirect impacts of design basis seismic events will not cause failure of safety functions.

Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to structural design reviews, construction project reviews, reviews of DOE safety related directives addressing geologic / seismologic / geotechnical site characterization activities, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, and seismic topics associated with other reviews.

The systematic process of checking whether software is appropriately, approved, controlled and tested throughout its lifecycle and meets specified requirements. The safety software reviewed includes safety system software, safety and hazard analysis software and design software, and safety management and administrative control software that performs a safety function as part of a system, structure, or component.

Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to software quality assurance (SQA) program reviews, SQA review of specific software, review of DOE directives addressing SQA, and SQA concerns associated with other reviews.

Fuel that has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing.

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Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to facilities and sites that processed, managed or stored spent nuclear fuel, including laboratories, former storage and processing facilities as well as reviews of DOE programs and safety related directives addressing spent nuclear fuel.

Training programs ensure personnel have the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities to properly perform their work function.

Correspondence, reports and recommendations related to review of DOE training requirements and specific training reviews at DOE sites and facilities.