Nuclear Power in Canada - Research Reactors

Research Reactors

• Chalk River Laboratories
  • MMIR-1 – MAPLE class medical isotope production reactor - built,incomplete commissioning, no operating license
  • MMIR-2 – MAPLE class medical isotope production reactor - built,incomplete commissioning, no operating license
  • NRU – 135 MW reactor used for research and medical isotope production
  • NRX reactor – (1947–1992) One of the highest flux reactors in the world until shutdown
  • SLOWPOKE-1 prototype, moved to University of Toronto, later upgraded to SLOWPOKE-2 - decommissioned
  • PTR – pool test reactor (shut down in 1990)
  • ZED-2 – zero-energy reactor
  • ZEEP – The first nuclear reactor in Canada, and first outside the United States
• Whiteshell Laboratories
  • WR-1 – Pinawa, Manitoba. Organically cooled CANDU class reactor 1965-1985. Plant had coolant leak of 2,739 litres in November 1978.
  • SDR – Slowpoke demonstration reactor; SLOWPOKE-3 class reactor (shut down in 1989)
• Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia – SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor - decommissioned (2009); dismantled (2011)
• Kanata – SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor (shut down in 1989)
• Tunney's Pasture – Ottawa, Ontario - SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor prototype?, (shutdown in 1984)
• École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec – SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor
• McMaster Nuclear Reactor, Hamilton, Ontario. – 5 MWth MTR class reactor
• Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario – SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor
• Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon – SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor
• University of Alberta, Edmonton – SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor
• University of Toronto – SLOWPOKE-2 class reactor (shut down in 2001)