Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit

The Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit (NRSK) is a set of requirements, procedures, processes, templates, checklists, and data intended as a starting point for a commercial nuclear reactor development and/or deployment program. The objective of the NRSK is to speed up nuclear reactor deployment worldwide. Its approach for doing so includes:

To identify and document modern best practices for achieving compliance and efficiency
To allow the nuclear industry to collaborate and share
To help newcomers to the field ramp up quickly

All commercial nuclear reactor and fuel processing facilities and their suppliers are required by law to follow a set of rigorous regulations. Doing so doesn't need to be debilitating.

The NRSK began as USA-centric in that it started with fundamental quality requirements from 10 CFR 50 Appendix B and traced down uniformly to specific procedure sections and other needs. However, given some homogeneity in nuclear quality regulatory regimes worldwide, it is expected that this will be readily adaptable to other jurisdictions as well.

Features

Scrape GDCs from 10 CFR 50 App A into individual requirements
Scrape each 'shall' statement from 10 CFR 50 App B into individual requirements to drive a traceable QA procedure set
Provide procedures implementing the requirements
- Each section of each procedure explicitly tied to a basis explaining why it is the way it is (flowed down from regulatory requirements or elsewhere)
Provide fillable forms and checklists to document progress and compliance
- Fillable by human and/or computer (e.g. e-forms)

Installing

Install prerequisites

python
xelatex

Install NSRK

Make a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv /path/to/venv source /path/to/venv/bin/activate
Clone repo:

git clone /path/to/nrsk
Install dependencies:

pip install -e .[dev]

Building initial documents

Generate the baseline data files:

python src/nsrk/regs/load_10cfr50.py

Build docs via Sphinx using::

cd documents
make html
make latex
cd build/latex
for f in *.tex; do xelatex $f; done

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