ASME BPVC-III-2-2007

This Section contains requirements for the material, design, construction, fabrication, testing, examination, and overpressure protection of concrete reactor vessels and concrete containment structures, prestressed or reinforced. These requirements are applicable only to those components that are designed to provide a pressure retaining or containing barrier. They are not applicable to other support structures, except as they directly affect the components of the systems. This Section contains appendices, both mandatory and nonmandatory, for Division 2 construction.