Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
July 24, 2017
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The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University proposes to enhance the infrastructures for the nuclear engineering research and education at Virginia Tech in the following experimental and computational areas: 1) Development of advanced measuring techniques to quantify the effects of turbulent coolant flow on flow-assisted corrosion-erosion of reactor materials; 2) Development of 3-D light field techniques to measure singleand two-phase flows; 3) Development of computational nuclear engineering infrastructure for Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS). These objectives will be accomplished by purchasing the following equipment: a phase array ultrasonic pipe thickness monitor, a wall shear stress monitoring system, a constant temperature anemometer system, two corrosion system data loggers, a fluid-motion 3D light-field camera system, and parallel computing clusters and workstations.