10 CFR 50.65 Requirements for monitoring the effectiveness of maintenance at nuclear power plants
The NRC Maintenance Rule requires monitoring the performance or condition of structures, systems, and components against licensee-established goals in a risk-informed maintenance framework.
What the authority record establishes
The NRC Maintenance Rule requires monitoring the performance or condition of structures, systems, and components against licensee-established goals in a risk-informed maintenance framework.
Binding within scope
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
It shows why maintenance records, performance criteria, condition monitoring, corrective action, risk, and program review need controlled definitions and evidence in regulated asset environments.
Affected operating stages
- Scope
- Risk Significance
- Performance Criteria
- Monitoring
- Corrective Action
- Assessment
Capabilities to examine
Asset Registry And Hierarchy
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Preventive Maintenance Scheduling
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Inspection And Route Execution
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Failure Codes And Maintenance History
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Downtime And Availability Analysis
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Asset Criticality And Risk Ranking
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Asset Health And Performance Analytics
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Safety Permits And Compliance Evidence
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Document Control And Audit Trails
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Affected buyer audiences
- nuclear maintenance
- engineering
- regulatory assurance
- licensees
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
The publication does not interpret a licensee's obligations, classify equipment, establish maintenance effectiveness, or provide nuclear engineering advice.