Simulators in Nuclear-reactor Control-room Human Factors Research & Development

Simulator studies are powerfull means to know, design and manage the complexity of nuclearreactor control, if they are, along with their scenarios, correctly designed for that purpose. This contribution to an international state of the art of the use of nuclear-reactor control-room simulators in human factors research and development precises the trends and novelties in the use of the results, in the theories and methodologies and in the construction of the simulated situations, i.e. in the conditions for an efficient use of the techniques of simulator design.