A high-tech research project on air pollution in Romania has launched thanks to a €2.5 million grant from Norway at the same time that Romanian authorities have slashed funding for science and research by 70 percent due to the economic crisis.
Magurele, a small town 10 kilometres south of Bucharest, is best known for its nuclear physics institute and made headlines earlier this summer when a US-sponsored team dismantled a Soviet-era reactor and repatriated it to Russia.
But the Ma...
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