Kjeller is a village located near

Lillestrøm Lillestrøm is a municipality in Viken county. It is located in the traditional district of Romerike. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger b ...

in the municipality of Lillestrøm, Norway. It is located 25 kilometers north-east of Oslo.

Name

The Norse form of the name was probably ''Tjaldir''. This is then the plural of ''tjald'' n ' tent'. The hills around the farm (''Kjellerhaugen'' and others) might have been compared in form with tents.

Facilities

Kjeller contains: FFI Kjeller Norway

Kjeller Airport Kjeller Airport ( no, Kjeller flyplass; ) is a military and general aviation airport located in Kjeller in Skedsmo in Viken county, Norway. Situated in the outskirts of Lillestrøm, it is east northeast of Oslo, making it the airport located th ...

*Norwegian Defence Logistic Organization (''FLO'') *The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (''FFI'') *The

Institute for Energy Technology Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) was established in 1948 as the Institute for Nuclear Energy (IFA). The name was changed in 1980. Its main office is at Kjeller, Norway, and slightly under half of the institute’s activities are based in H ...

(''IFE''), including one of Norway's two nuclear research reactors. *

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*The Norwegian Standardisation Bureau *

UNIK The University Graduate Center (UNIK) is a research foundation at Kjeller in Norway. UNIK has four focus areas Network, Information Security and Signalprocessing for Communication * Electronics and Photonics * Cybernetics and Industrial Mathematic ...

(University Graduate Center) *

Oslo Metropolitan University Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslomet; no, Oslomet – storbyuniversitetet)"Skrivemåten av universitetsnamnet Oslomet – storbyuniversitetet," Language Council of Norway, 17/677-4/DGI, 18 January 2018 is a state university in Oslo and Akers ...

* NORSAR (Norwegian Seismic Array) Historically, Kjeller has also been the location for a small

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factory. The Telenor Research Centre was located in Kjeller until 2001, when the majority of employees moved to

Fornebu Fornebu (local form ''Fornebo'') is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, bordering western parts of Oslo. Oslo Airport, Fornebu (FBU) served as the main airport for Oslo and the country since before World War II an ...

on 23 November. Akershus University College was opened in autumn 2003 at Telenor's previous location. Approximately 3700 students attend the university. The array at NORSAR was one of the first European nodes of the

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, the precursor to the Internet.

Nuclear reactor

The nuclear reactor at Kjeller, opened on November 28, 1951 was the first reactor outside the US, Soviet Union, Canada, Great Britain and France. It was a joint project by the Dutch and Norwegian governments. The Netherlands supplied the uranium and Norway the heavy water. The nuclear reactor is used in scientific research and is together with a nuclear reactor in Halden Norway's only two nuclear reactors. Neither of them is in commercial use. On 9 September 2006, the reactor suffered a "contained" leak which forced it to shut down for three weeks for repairs. www.blather.net September 2007
/ref> Its operating license expires at the end of 201

In 2020 it was estimated dismantling the Halden and Kjeller research reactors and restoring the sites to unrestricted use will cost about

NOK Nok is a village in Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. The village is an archeological site. Archaeology The discovery of terracotta figurines at this location caused its name to be used for the Nok culture The Nok cul ...

20 billion (US$2 billion) and take 20 to 25 years.

References

Villages in Akershus Skedsmo Lillestrøm {{Akershus-geo-stub