| Country | Canada |
| Facility Name | SLOWPOKE-2, HALIFAX |
| Facility Number | CA-0010 |
| Status | OPERATIONAL |
| Last Updated | 2009/06/23 |
| General Data |
| Owner | DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY |
| Operator | |
| Licensing | CANADIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY COMMISSION |
| Construction Date | 1976/04/15 |
| Criticality Date | 1976/07/08 |
| Safeguards | IAEA |
| Initial Cost | 250 K C$ |
| Annual Cost | 120 K C$ |
| Total Staff | 2 |
| No of Operators | 2 |
| Technical Data |
| Reactor Type | SLOWPOKE-2 |
| Thermal Power, Steady (kW) | 20.00 |
| Max Flux SS, Thermal (n/cm2-s) | 1.0E12 |
| Max Flux SS, Fast (n/cm2-s) | 1.8E11 |
| Thermal Power, Pulsed (MW) | 0.00 |
| Max Flux Pulsed, Thermal (n/cm2-s) | |
| Max Flux Pulsed, Fast (n/cm2-s) | |
| Moderator | LIGHT WATER |
| Coolant | LIGHT WATER |
| Natural Convection Cooling | YES |
| Forced Cooling | |
| Coolant Velocity in Core | |
| Reflector | BE |
| Reflector Number of Sides | ANNULAR+TOP+BOTTOM |
| Control Rods Material | CD |
| Control Rods number | 1 |
| Experimental Facilities |
| Horizontal Channels | |
| Horizontal Max Flux (n/cm2-s) | |
| Horizontal Use | |
| Vertical Channels | |
| Vertical Max Flux (n/cm2-s) | |
| Vertical Use | |
| Core Irradiation Facilities | |
| Core Max Flux (n/cm2-s) | |
| Reflector Irradiation Facilities | 5 |
| Loops Number | |
| Loops Max Flux | |
| Loops use |
| Fuel data |
| Origin of Fissile Material | USA |
| Enrichment Supplier | USA |
| Equilibrium Core Size | 295 |
| Plates per Element | |
| Dimensions of Plates | |
| Rods per Element | 1 |
| Dimensions of Rods, mm | 4.73X220 |
| Tubes per Element | |
| Dimensions of Tubes, mm | |
| Cladding Material | AL ALLOY |
| Cladding Thickness, mm | 0.51 |
| Fuel Material | |
| Fuel Thickness, mm | 4.22 DIA |
| Uranium Density, g/cm3 | |
| Burnup on Discharge, max % | 2 |
| Burnup Average, % | 1.5 |
| Last Shipment Year | |
| Last Receipt Year | |
| Fuel Fabricator | ELDORADO NUCLEAR, GE CANADA |
| Utilization |
| Hours per Day | 4 |
| Days per Week | 1 |
| Weeks per Year | 52 |
| MW Days per Year | 0 |
| Materials/fuel test experiments | NO |
| Isotope Production | NO |
| Neutron Scattering | NO |
| Neutron Radiography | NO |
| Neutron capture therapy | NO |
| Activation Analysis | N/A |
| N/A | |
| Transmutation | NO |
| Geochronology | NO |
| Teaching | Number of students: N/A |
| Training | Number of operators/experimenters trained: N/A |
| Other Uses | NO |
| Operating Experience |
| Reactor | Thermal Power | Date of | Operational for | |||
| Category | Type | kW | Criticality | Construction | Years | Months |
| RESEARCH | SLOWPOKE-2 | 20.00 | 1976/07/08 | 1976/04/15 | 34 | 7 |