Kjeller is a village located near Lillestrøm 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 A tent () is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anchored using gu ...

'. 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 The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (''Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt'' – ''FFI'') is a research institute that conducts research and development on behalf of the Norwegian Armed Forces and provides expert advice to political and mi ...

(''FFI'') *The Institute for Energy Technology (''IFE''), including one of Norway's two nuclear research reactors. *

Norwegian Institute for Air Research The NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research ( no, NILU – Norsk Institutt for luftforskning) or NILU is one of the leading specialized scientific laboratories in Europe researching issues related to air pollution, climate change and health. ...

*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 *

NORSAR NORSAR or Norwegian Seismic Array was established in 1968 as part of the Norwegian- US agreement for the detection of earthquakes and nuclear explosions. Description Located at Kjeller, north of Oslo, NORSAR runs and maintains seismic arrays i ...

(Norwegian Seismic Array) Historically, Kjeller has also been the location for a small aircraft factory. The

Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...

Research Centre was located in Kjeller until 2001, when the majority of employees moved to Fornebu 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

was one of the first European nodes of the ARPANET, 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 Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north and Aremark to the east, as well as the Swedish muni ...

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

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, of which these ...

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

References

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