Tajura (city)

According to a long legend, the name Tajura arose at a time when a beautiful princess named Ur ruled the city. Once she lost the crown, in the Arabic language Taj, and ordered her subjects to find her. People began to search for the crown with the shouts of Taj Ur, but never found it. Since then, the place has been called Tajura.

The most attractive for tourists in Tajur are the beautiful Mediterranean beaches.

Tajur is home to the Renewable Energy and Water Desalination Research Center (RRC), now built with the help of the Soviet Union, the Nuclear Research Center (NRC ) . Since 1983, a 10 megawatt nuclear reactor and a T-4M fusion unit ( tokamak ) have been operating at REWDRC.

The Nuclear Research Center in Tajur has all the conditions for research in all branches of fundamental and applied science with a priority on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the use of renewable energy sources and desalination.

The center was founded in 1983 under the name Tajoura Nuclear Research Center (TNRC). The center’s task is to conduct fundamental and applied research in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear energy. When the center included the Water Desalination Treatment Research Center and the Solar Research Center, it was renamed the Renewable Energy and Water Desalination Research Center (REWDRC). Research is being carried out in the following areas of science:

• Peaceful use of nuclear technology
• Applied Renewable Energy Technologies
• Desalination technology
• The provision of scientific and technical services by the center’s specialists
• Education Support

Specialization

1. The main research tools are a 10 MW research reactor, a critical installation, a neutron generator, and a Tokamak TM-4 with all the necessary equipment and instruments.

2. Radiochemical laboratory for the production of radioactive isotopes for use in agriculture, medicine, geology and biology.

3. Basic and applied research laboratories:

• nuclear physics research laboratory
• solid state physics research laboratory
• neutron physics laboratory
• Institute of Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
• Laboratory of Radiation Biophysics
• mass spectrometry laboratory
• activation analysis laboratory
• neutron generator

Infrastructure items

• computer and electronic seminars and testing laboratories, a spare parts warehouse, a library and an information center, conference rooms, cafes, etc.
• water supply, electric networks, gas supply, communications and transport, radiation monitoring and control units, ventilation and air conditioning, waste and utilization, fire department, etc.
• medical unit, safety and security and administrative units.

Units

• Institute of Physics
• Institute of Chemistry
• Computer department