Quality in Simulator Construction

In recent years, Nuclear Power plants Operation Support Systems, have rapidly gained the attention of different regulatory and standardisation bodies. Operation personnel training simulators are not considered, so far, as belonging to this type of systems; however, present evolution trends in the simulation are, are considering simulators as test beds of these systems. On the other hand, simulators are complex systems, with very long life cycles, involving diverse areas, each of them being increasingly requested to Quality. (Author)