Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
August 16, 2016
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The main objective of this project is to develop a probabilistically-informed methodology, which involves innovative non- destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques, to determine the extent of potential damage or degradation of internal components of used nuclear fuel canisters/casks during normal conditions of transport or Hypothetical accident conditions. The University of Houston will use NDE based on non-invasive acoustic sensing, elastodynamic waveform tomography, and time-tagged neutron interrogation.