| Country | Mexico (United Mexican States) |
| Facility Name | NUCLEAR CHICAGO MOD 2000 |
| Facility Number | MX-0004 |
| Status | OPERATIONAL |
| Last Updated | 2010/03/23 |
| General Data |
| Owner | INST POLYTECHNICO NACIONAL |
| Operator | INST POLYTECHNICO NACIONAL |
| Licensing | COMISION NACIONAL DE SEGURIDAD NUCLEAR Y SALVAGUARDIAS |
| Construction Date | 1968/01/01 |
| Criticality Date | 1969/01/01 |
| Safeguards | |
| Initial Cost | |
| Total Staff | 3 |
| No of Operators | 3 |
| Technical Data |
| Reactor Type | SUBCRIT |
| Thermal Power, Steady (kW) | 0.00 |
| Max Flux SS, Thermal (n/cm2-s) | 3.18E04 |
| Max Flux SS, Fast (n/cm2-s) | 1.15E05 |
| Thermal Power, Pulsed (MW) | 0.00 |
| Max Flux Pulsed, Thermal (n/cm2-s) | |
| Max Flux Pulsed, Fast (n/cm2-s) | |
| Moderator | LIGHT WATER |
| Coolant | |
| Natural Convection Cooling | |
| Forced Cooling | |
| Coolant Velocity in Core | |
| Reflector | H2O |
| Reflector Number of Sides | |
| Control Rods Material | |
| Control Rods number |
| Experimental Facilities |
| Horizontal Channels | |
| Horizontal Max Flux (n/cm2-s) | |
| Horizontal Use | |
| Vertical Channels | 2 |
| Vertical Max Flux (n/cm2-s) | |
| Vertical Use | STUDENT TRAINING, EXPERIMENTS |
| Core Irradiation Facilities | |
| Core Max Flux (n/cm2-s) | |
| Reflector Irradiation Facilities | |
| Loops Number | |
| Loops Max Flux | |
| Loops use |
| Fuel data |
| Origin of Fissile Material | USA |
| Enrichment Supplier | USA |
| Equilibrium Core Size | |
| Plates per Element | |
| Dimensions of Plates | |
| Rods per Element | |
| Dimensions of Rods, mm | |
| Tubes per Element | |
| Dimensions of Tubes, mm | |
| Cladding Material | AL ALLOY |
| Cladding Thickness, mm | |
| Fuel Material | |
| Fuel Thickness, mm | |
| Uranium Density, g/cm3 | |
| Burnup on Discharge, max % | |
| Burnup Average, % | |
| Last Shipment Year | |
| Last Receipt Year | |
| Fuel Fabricator | NUCLEAR CHICAGO, USA |
| Utilization |
| Hours per Day | 3 |
| Days per Week | 5 |
| Weeks per Year | 46 |
| 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 | NO |
| Transmutation | NO |
| Geochronology | NO |
| Teaching | Number of students: 7 |
| Training | Number of operators/experimenters trained: 3 |
| Other Uses | NO |
| Operating Experience |
| Reactor | Thermal Power | Date of | Operational for | |||
| Category | Type | kW | Criticality | Construction | Years | Months |
| TRAINING | SUBCRIT | 0.00 | 1969/01/01 | 1968/01/01 | 41 | 5 |