Alatau, Kazakhstan
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Alatau (from Turkic languages: "motley mountain") is a townlet in Almaty Oblysy (Almaty Province), Kazakhstan, 15 km away from Almaty.
The town is notable for its Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center (formerly of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences), which houses an experimental nuclear reactor and cyclotron.