The paper describes how a set of diverse tools and projects have been integrated to respond to a variety of needs in a way which is considered efficient and cost effective. These tools result from probabilistic safety assessment as well as from computer and communication projects. Plant simulation capabilities which have been developed from 1984 onwards for engineering and safety analysis are now the core of a training simulator installed at the Garona nuclear power plant. The computer graphics interface used for the training simulator has been adapted to operate with simulated or real time plant data. This graphic interface is now used at the plant for the safety parameter display function and to display plant information in general. The plant data information system and the simulator are connected to the plant local area network (LAN), so that a given terminal can display either plant data or simulated data coming from some scenario running on the simulator. The corporate office LAN is connected to the plant LAN by a microwave link, so that access to this system is available from the corporate office. The paper discusses these systems as well as their applications and benefits.
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