Altitude: 76 m. ASL.
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Romania > Bucureşti - Ilfov
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Date hidden: 2015-02-21
Date created: 2016-05-12
Date published: 2016-05-12
Last modification: 2020-03-07 
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Măgurele is a town situated in the southwestern part of Ilfov County, Romania. 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 (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.
Currently it has under construction part of the ELI project (Extreme Light Infrastructure), the most powerful laser ever to be built.
Its name is derived from a Romanian word possibly of Dacian origin, măgură, meaning "hill".
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