SectionIST establishes the requirements for preservice and inservice testing and examination of certain compo-nents to assess their operational readiness in light-water reactor nuclear power plants. It identifies the compo- nents subject to test or examination, responsibilities,methods, intervals, parameters to be measured and eval-uated, criteria for evaluating the results, corrective action, personnel qualification, and record keeping.These requirements apply to
(a) pumps and valves that are required to perform a specific function in shutting down a reactor to the safe shutdown condition, in maintaining the safe shutdown condition, or in mitigating the consequences of an accident
(b) pressure reliefdevices that protect systems or por-tions of systems that perform one or more of the three functions identified in subpara. ISTA-1100(a)
