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Sep 12, 2023 · Discover the untold tale of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage in Vemork, a pivotal moment in the annals of WWII. In 1943 daring Allied-led mission sought to thwart Nazi Germany's heavy water...
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Feb 27, 2021 · Operation Gunnerside (later evaluated by SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II) successfully destroyed the Vemork heavy water production facility and supplies. The raid caused the Germans to lose about 500 kg of heavy water and decommissioned the plant for a few months.
May 4, 2021 · The Germans needed a very specific material for use in their nuclear program: heavy water. Heavy water at this point in history had only been successfully mass produced in one place, the Norsk hydro-electric plant located in Vemork, Norway.
May 16, 2017 · In 1942, the Nazis were racing to complete the first atomic bomb. All they needed was a single, incredibly rare ingredient: heavy water, which was produced solely at Norway’s Vemork plant. Under threat of death, Vemork’s engineers pushed production into overdrive.
Feb 21, 2018 · Heavy water is unique in that it contains a neutron in its nucleus as opposed to just one proton, and is a key ingredient needed to manage the chain reaction needed to create a nuclear bomb. The only place in the world that produced enough heavy water for a fission reaction was Vemork.
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Oct 4, 2011 · Even before World War II, French Intelligence – the Deuxieme Bureau - had removed 185 kilos of heavy water from the plant. After the German occupation of Norway in 1940, the Allies were anxious to stop production and staged a series of sabotage missions.
May 22, 2023 · The Norwegian resistance won World War II. In 1943, Operation Gunnerside destroyed the Nazis’ heavy water coming from a plant at Vemork in Telemark, southern Norway. This action denied the atomic bomb to the enemy. Or so the story goes. As always, reality is far more complicated.
