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 The International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear
Sciences (ICENS) is a multi-disciplinary research centre located on the Mona Campus of the University of the West
Indies in Jamaica.
It is one of the nodes of a network of research and training centres under the aegis of the Commission for Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS).
ICENS is the successor institution to the Centre for Nuclear Sciences (CNS).
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ICENS News
Small Research Reactor Utilization Workshop - Abstracts
Vacancies
Director General
Visitors
Dr. Miguel Balcazar from Instituto Nacional de
Investigaciones Nucleares (Mexico) and
Charles Grant performed the first known measurements
of Radon in caves and homes in Jamaica - August 2006.
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ICENS is involved in Environmental Geochemical Research in areas that have applications in:
- Agriculture
- Environment
- Epidemiology
- Occurrence & Effects of Heavy Metals
- Nutrition and Health
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Services available from ICENS are:
- X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
- Neutron Activation Analysis
- Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
- Ion Chromatography
- Radiation monitoring:
- Personal Dosimetry
- Natural Radioactivity
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