Marian Petrache, chairman of the Ilfov County Council, said the science park will include centers for information technology and communications, technology, healthcare and advanced materials, all of which will boost both national and local economy and which will capitalize on the results of the laser experiments.
Authorities are currently conducting a feasibility study which they hope will be ready by February 2018 the latest, as the laser becomes operational in 2019.
The ELI NP Research Centre is an under construction facility in the Romanian locality of Magurele, Ilfov County, which will host the most powerful laser in the world. The laser technology could be used to destroy nuclear waste and provide a new type of cancer radiotherapy called hadrontherapy.