Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
August 8, 2016
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Texas A&M University proposes to construct an experimental facility that will enable single and two-phase flow experimental data to be acquired in a 3x3 fuel rod array under a wide range of steady-state and transient conditions. The neutronic behavior of a light water reactor will be simulated in real-time and coupled to the electrical heat generation rate of a test loop. Coolant will flow past the full-height vertical test section, consisting of 24 locally controlled heat sources for a 3x3 fuel rod array. The local void fraction and temperature data is fed into the neutronic simulations which are in turn coupled to the heat generations itself.