Măgurele

For other uses, see Măgurele (disambiguation).

Măgurele
—  Town  —
Downtown Măgurele, 2007
Măgurele
Coordinates: 44°23′41″N 26°3′58″E / 44.39472°N 26.06611°E / 44.39472; 26.06611
Country	Romania
County	Ilfov County
Population (2002)[1]	9,272
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
– Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

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.

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

Welcome sign at the town's southern entry

References

1. ^ Romanian census data, 2002; retrieved on March 1, 2010

External links

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

Coordinates: 44°23′41″N 26°3′58″E / 44.39472°N 26.06611°E / 44.39472; 26.06611