Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
July 10, 2015
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City College of New York proposes to experimentally investigate the coolant flow and heat transfer behavior in a prismatic core of a Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (VHTR) under accident conditions. The objectives of this proposal are to perform the following three separate and mixed effects experiments to better understand the physical phenomena and yield reliable experimental data useful for validation of VHTR design and safety analysis codes: 1. Natural circulation flow and effect of air ingress, 2. Forced-convection and the effect of bypass-coolant flow in a prismatic core, 3. Radiative heat transfer and effect of oxidation by air ingress.