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ICENS is located on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, about 20 km from the Norman Manley International Airport. It occupies an attractive modern air-conditioned building of 950 sq. m. area.

The major instrumentation consists of nuclear and non-nuclear analytical instruments.

Analytical Facilities

Nuclear Techniques
The SLOWPOKE 2 nuclear research reactor is used primarily for Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA). NAA is used for analysis of rocks, soil, sediments, air particulates, plant, animal and human tissue.

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Some of our other equipment includes:

• Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Spectrometer - Kevex EDX-770
• Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (TXRF)
• Atomic Absorption using a Perkin Elmer absorption spectrometer model 5100 with Zeeman furnace
• Ion Chromatograph - Dionex 4500
• Automated Ion Analyzer - Quik-Chem 8000
• Thermoluminescence Dosimetry Reader
• Gross Alpha and beta counter
• Gamma spectroscopy equipment
• CPI International ModBlock™
• Optical Fluorescence and UV-vis spectrophotometers
• Claisse M4 Fluxor

Computer equipment at ICENS consists of PCs, SUN workstations and LINUX servers.  ICENS has full access to the University of the West Indies wide-area-network via fibre-optic cables with T1 access to the internet.

ICENS operates a Spatial Information Viewing System for the display and interpretation of results. This combines a Geographic Information System (Grass 4.2) with a SQL database (SOLID 2.2).

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