| Country | Jamaica |
| Facility Name | UWI CNS SLOWPOKE |
| Facility Number | JM-0001 |
| Status | OPERATIONAL |
| Last Updated | 2009/03/23 |
| General Data |
| Owner | UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES |
| Operator | INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL & NUCLEAR SCIENCES |
| Licensing | UNIVERSITY OF WEST INDIES |
| Construction Date | 1982/01/01 |
| Criticality Date | 1984/03/13 |
| Safeguards | IAEA |
| Initial Cost | US $ 580 K |
| Annual Cost | US $ 150 K |
| Total Staff | 30 |
| No of Operators | 5 |
| Technical Data |
| Reactor Type | SLOWPOKE |
| Thermal Power, Steady (kW) | 20.00 |
| Max Flux SS, Thermal (n/cm2-s) | 1.2E12 |
| Max Flux SS, Fast (n/cm2-s) | 1.0E11 |
| 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 | NO |
| 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) | 2.0E12 |
| Reflector Irradiation Facilities | 4 |
| Loops Number | |
| Loops Max Flux | |
| Loops use |
| Fuel data |
| Origin of Fissile Material | USA |
| Enrichment Supplier | USA |
| Equilibrium Core Size | 296 |
| 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 | U-AL ALLOY |
| Fuel Thickness, mm | 4.22 |
| Uranium Density, g/cm3 | |
| Burnup on Discharge, max % | |
| Burnup Average, % | |
| Last Shipment Year | |
| Last Receipt Year | |
| Fuel Fabricator | AECL, CA |
| Utilization |
| Hours per Day | 5 |
| Days per Week | 5 |
| Weeks per Year | 45 |
| MW Days per Year | 4 |
| Materials/fuel test experiments | NO |
| Isotope Production | NO |
| Neutron Scattering | NO |
| Neutron Radiography | NO |
| Neutron capture therapy | NO |
| Activation Analysis | INAA |
| 1500 | |
| Transmutation | NO |
| Geochronology | N/A |
| N/A | |
| Teaching | Number of students: 10 |
| Training | Number of operators/experimenters trained: 2 |
| Other Uses | NO |
| Operating Experience |
| Reactor | Thermal Power | Date of | Operational for | |||
| Category | Type | kW | Criticality | Construction | Years | Months |
| RESEARCH | SLOWPOKE | 20.00 | 1984/03/13 | 1982/01/01 | 25 | 2 |