Chemistry and Industry, February 21st, 2000
Heavy water and the wartime race for nuclear energy
Per F Dahl
Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing 1999
Ppxvi+399 [pounds]35/$60, ISBN 0 7503 0633 5
When the Nazis invaded Norway in April 1940, the Norsk Hydro electrolysis plant at Vemork in the Telemark district featured high on their list of core objectives to be secured. Not only did the plant occupy a prime strategic site in the Vestfjord valley that cuts the massif dividing the east and west of the country, but it was the world's leading producer of a simple but much-misunderstood substance that the Germans believed would help ...
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