Măgurele
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Măgurele is a town situated in the southwestern part of Ilfov County, Romania. Its population is 9,200.
The town hosts a nuclear research lab, the Institute of Atomic Physics (Romanian: Institutul de Fizicǎ Atomicǎ (IFA)) and its National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering. Between 1957 and 1998, it had a Soviet VVRS research reactor, now closed down. The Faculty of Physics of the University of Bucharest is also located in Măgurele.
Its name is derived from a Romanian word possibly of Dacian origin, măgură, meaning "hill".
[edit] External links
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
- National Institute of Materials Physics
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