scope:

This standard establishes the minimum requirements for the acceptance and use of non-real-time, highintegrity software used for design and analysis in the nuclear industry. This standard is directly related to ANSI/ANS-10.7-2013 [1],¹⁾ which provides requirements for the developer of non-real-time, high-integrity software.

The activities described in this standard enable an end user of complex simulation software to assure, when software has been developed in accordance with appropriate requirements [1], that the software will meet the specific identified needs of the end user and that the software is installed and used in a correct manner.

The type of software discussed in this standard is software used for the analysis, design, and simulation of complex physical systems and phenomena. This type of software requires a high degree of functional reliability in order to reduce the risk of undetected errors.

¹⁾Numbers in brackets refer to corresponding numbers in Sec. 15, "References."