3. Qualification of programmed systems. Practices

3.1 General

The installation of programmed systems in nuclear power plants raised a number of new issues. In addition to creating the systems themselves, it was necessary to create methods for qualifying these systems.

3.1.1 Equipment qualification

To a certain extent, the design and construction rules for programmable hardware can be likened to an extension of what is already common practice for electrical equipment (development cycle, component selection, trial testing, etc.). Many of the...