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    59°52′16″N 8°29′29″E / 59.87111°N 8.49139°E / 59.87111; 8.49139 Vemork is a hydroelectric power plant outside the town of Rjukan in Tinn Municipality...
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    sabotage was aimed at the 60 MW Vemork power station at the Rjukan waterfall in Telemark. The hydroelectric power plant at Vemork was built in 1934. It was...
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    airborne operation using Airspeed Horsa gliders, and its target was the Vemork Norsk Hydro hydrogen electrolysis plant in Telemark, Norway which produced...
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    destruction of Norsk Hydro's heavy water plant and stockpile of heavy water at Vemork, which crippled the German nuclear programme. More important to the Allied...
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    perhaps best known for the heavy water sabotage operations at the local Vemork hydroelectric power plant during World War II. Rjukan does not get any sunlight...
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    Norwegian heavy water sabotage by Norwegian & British Commandos of the Vemork Hydroelectric Plant during WW2. SAS Ghost Patrol (Quercus, 2017) ISBN 978-1-7864-8313-3;...
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    merged into a power plant that is still in service as of May 2020. The Vemork Hydroelectric Power Station was designed by Olaf Nordhagen, influenced by...
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    water research, and was instrumental when a heavy water plant was built at Vemork. After the invasion of Norway by Germany during World War II, Tronstad conducted...
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  • Construction of the plants at Rjukan would commence through two states; first at Vemork and second at Såheim, while the town of Rjukan would be built in the middle...
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    September 2012. "Kraftverk: Vemork". nve.no (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018. "Vemork power station". www.hydro...
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    went into action against the Norsk Hydro heavy water production plant in Vemork in 1943, parachuting into the Hardangervidda plateau on 16 February. Rønneberg...
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  • Bascomb. It tells the story of the Norwegian operation to sabotage the Vemork heavy water plant during World War II. "The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission...
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  • Vemork, see Gunnerside Grouse (1942) – Norwegian guide party for Freshman Gunnerside (1943) – 2nd raid on the Norwegian heavy water plant at Vemork Fork...
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    invented. In 1934, Norsk Hydro built the first commercial heavy water plant at Vemork, Tinn, eventually producing 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) per day. From 1940 and...
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    destroy Norsk Hydro's heavy water plant and stockpile of heavy water at Vemork, crippling the German nuclear programme. The Germans attempted to stifle...
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    Davidite-(Ce) (Ce,Le)(Y,U)(Ti,Fe3+ ) 20O 38 first described in 1960 from Vemork, Iveland, Norway. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols"...
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    one time, most of Europe's ammonia was produced from the Hydro plant at Vemork. Other possibilities include biological hydrogen production or photolysis...
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    French; 1948), a French–Norwegian semi-documentary film about sabotage of the Vemork heavy water plant in Norway during World War II. His assistants Hans Halban...
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    member of the Gunnerside team of the sabotage of the heavy water plant at Vemork Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922–2000), German jazz journalist Joachim Fest (1926–2006)...
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  • Industri- og Næringspartiet, INP) is a Norwegian political party founded at Vemork in Rjukan on 29 February 2020. The party describes itself as a centre-oriented...
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  • against survivors of the unsuccessful British commando raid against the Vemork heavy water plant at Rjukan, Norway in 1942 (Operation Freshman). He was...
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    necessary as a moderator in German nuclear designs. The hydrogen plant at Vemork was the first mass producer of heavy water, and in 1939 the German company...
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    of the Kompani Linge sabotaged the Nazi Germany-controlled heavy water Vemork plant in Rjukan in a long-range raid which began at an airfield in England...
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  • excess power from its hydroelectric plants, primarily for fertilizer. The Vemork hydroelectric plant in Norway used its surplus electricity output to generate...
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  • was filmed on location in Norway. The Norwegian resistance sabotage the Vemork Norsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway...
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    "Norwegian heavy water sabotage", the purpose of which was to destroy the Vemork deuterium production/enrichment facility in Norway. At the time this was...
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  • Hydro. The ferry was to carry railway cars with heavy water drums from the Vemork hydroelectric plant, where they were produced, across Lake Tinn so they...
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    College in Porsgrunn. Skinnarland worked at the Norsk Hydro plant at the Vemork hydroelectric plant, and decided to escape to the UK to help the war effort...
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  • Operation Freshman, directed against the heavy water production facility at Vemork, failed miserably. In 1943 another attempt was made, codenamed Operation...
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    team succeeded in the destruction of heavy water equipment and stock at Vemork in February 1943. After the sabotage Poulsson escaped to Oslo, and later...
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