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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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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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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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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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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