Alert

Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Environmental qualification

A process for ensuring that equipment will be capable of withstanding the ambient conditions that could exist when the specific function to be performed by the equipment is actually called upon to be performed under accident conditions.

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