Pellet-Cladding Interaction (PCI) in Water-Cooled Reactors: Proceedings of a WGFS Workshop

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This report documents the proceedings of the Workshop on Pellet-Cladding Interaction (PCI) in Water-Cooled Reactors held in Lucca, Italy on 22-24 June 2016. The workshop was organised jointly by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), Nuclear and INdustrial Engineering (NINE, Italy) and the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN, France).

About 80 specialists representing 19 countries and 41 organisations attended the workshop. A total of 31 presentations were given, arranged in 3 technical sessions (experiments and analysis; modelling and simulation; design verification methodologies), with an introductory session and a concluding session.

The proceedings include the 27 papers received and the 31 presentations given during the meeting. They also include technical session summaries drafted by the session chairs, as well as an overall summary of the workshop taking into account the discussions that took place during the concluding session.