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From US NRC docket NRC-2011-0088: “the NRC has had a decades-long practice of approving and/or mandating the use of certain parts of editions and addenda of these ASME Codes in 10 CFR 50.55a through the rulemaking process of “incorporation by reference.”

Once again the US NRC outdoes itself for sheer stupidity. A code is a code. Standards are standards. You can’t pick and choose parts and pieces of this or any other code and say that it has anything to do with the code itself. But this is what the chronically asinine NRC wants to do: “Incorporation of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Codes and New and Revised ASME Code Cases Docket ID: NRC-2011-0088
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “Summary
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations to incorporate by reference seven recent editions and addenda to the American Society of Mechanical…