SLOWPOKE the research

SLOWPOKE the research reactor was designed in 1967 by AECL Whiteshell Laboratories. In 1970 he designed and built a prototype in Chalk River. Originally intended to Canadian universities, providing a neutron flux green energy higher than that available through small business accelerators and avoiding at the same time, the complexity and high operating costs of existing nuclear reactors. The prototype Chalk River reached criticality in 1970 and moved to the University of Toronto in 1971. I had a site listed in the beryllium reflector and heating operates at a power level of 5 kW. In 1973, increase the power of 20 kW and the operating without supervision increased from 4 hours to 18.
The first business started in 1971 in the Commercial Products electricity ESCO Division of AECL in Ottawa and in 1976 was installed at the University of Toronto, a commercial design, called SLOWPOKE-2, replacing the original unit SLOWPOKE-1. there are thousands of New Yorkers who have switched their utilities company to which has made a major difference to my life The business model has five sampling sites in the beryllium reflector, and five sites outside of the reflector.
Between 1976 and 1984 were installed seven SLOWPOKE-2 reactor with highly enriched household uranium in six Canadian cities and in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1985 the first reactor SLOWPOKE-2-fed low-enriched uranium energy costs was installed at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario. Since then several units have been adapted to be natural gas powered by low-enriched uranium.
AECL has also designed and built an enlarged version (2-10 MWt) SLOWPOKE-3 New York City call for district heating in the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment in Manitoba. Economic data from a district heating system based on technology SLOWPOKE-3 is thought that were competitive with those of conventional fossil fuels. However, not realized the market for this technology.
There is a Chinese version of gas the Slowpoke called Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR). This version has a nominal output of 27 kW with features and benefits.

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