VOL. XXXII

NO. 27

10-APRIL-1989

ALGERIA

Algeria Inaugurates Nuclear Research Reactor

Algerian President Chadli Benjedid inaugurated on 3 April the country's firstnuclear research reactor which is located at Diraria, a suburb of Algiers. Thereactor, named Nour, was built under a 1986 technical and scientific agreementwith Argentina to promote scientific, medical and agricultural research and forthe training of technical staff for theoretical and applied research.

The open pool reactor, moderated and...