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Word: tajura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1985-1985
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...colored, stylized representation of Mendeleev's periodic table, the catalog of the elements. The attractive complex, however, is neither a jet- setter's hideaway nor a university campus. An inscription within the periodic table proclaims, "The Revolution Forever!" and outside the gate soldiers mount guard. Welcome to Libya's Tajura Nuclear Research Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By Hook Or By Crook | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...most palpable result of Gaddafi's solicitation is the Soviet-built Tajura Center, whose state-of-the-art research facilities were opened in 1982. According to Ann MacLachlan, European editor for McGraw-Hill Inc.'s Nucleonics Week, who has visited the Libyan facility, the Soviets have supplied a small TM4-A Tokamak Nuclear Fusion Facility, which includes a ten-megawatt research reactor and a reactor-training site. Employed at the plant are several hundred Libyans who are studying nuclear operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By Hook Or By Crook | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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