Măgurele is a town situated in the southwestern part of Ilfov County

Ilfov County

Ilfov is the county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but after the fall of communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, which act like suburbs or satellites of Bucharest...

, Romania

Romania

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. Its population is 9,200. Four villages are administered by the town: Alunişu, Dumitrana, Pruni and Vârteju.

The town hosts a nuclear research lab, the Institute of Atomic Physics ( (IFA)) and its National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering. Between 1957 and 1998, it had a Soviet VVRS research reactor

Research reactor

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, now closed down. The Faculty of Physics of the University of Bucharest

University of Bucharest

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 is also located in Măgurele.

Its name is derived from a Romanian word possibly of Dacian origin, măgură, meaning "hill".

External links

• Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
• National Institute of Materials Physics