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War Hero Thwarted Nazi Heavy Water Production
Freshly Exhumed writes "Its doubtful you know the name of Einar Skinnarland, but his sabotage over several years repeatedly thwarted Nazi plans to exploit Norway's heavy water production capabilities for their atomic bomb research plans. Skinnerland recently passed away in Canada and his daring exploits are recounted here. Details of some of the raids on the production facilities can be found on pafko and Stephen's Study Room. So many 'what if?'s and suspicions have swirled around the Nazi atomic bomb program that this man's efforts seem crystal clear for a change."
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Hooray for Canada and it's abilty to kill off Nazi's! One of these days they will all be dead and people will have forgotten about them, which is the sad part (cuz then the process repeats). By golly it makes the History channel(s) go around!
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
...Cuz all the debates end up the same...does slahdot have nothing better to do that post stories like this?
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
I don't remember this 'Skinnarland' guy, though.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
I don't really see why would it matter if it was Nazis, not U.S. ruling the world today. Things go the same way. In God we would trust anyway.
No... The US only nuked Japan not once, but twice after they had surrendered...
Yes, if only the French had such a fighting spirit. Perhaps WW2 wouldn't have gotten so far.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
Jews cannot be trusted. They are so dishonest that the Rosenbergs (julius) had to be put to death as traitorous spies giving russian jews atomic bomb secrets.
Hitler did not trust jews. Their actions in Palestein speak for themselves.
Wow, the trolls are out in force tonight. Read a book before you go confusing mod-points with nuclear physics.
Plutonium is enriched uranium. This is the whole point.
Heavy water will allow a reactor to react natural uranium, producing plutonium (or "enriched" uranium) as a byproduct. While this could be used in bombs, commercial plants typically re-use this enriched uranium in an ordinary water reactor core.
The enriched unranium reverts back to its original state, minus some mass as a result of the second law of thermodynamics. The cycle can then repeat. This is referred to as a "breeder" reactor for this very reason. It continually "breeds" new fuel.
Eventually the fuel rods shrink too far and lack the surface area needed to produce enough neutrons to continue the reaction. Since it's far too dangerous to try to combine spent rods (you'd have to heat-form them together outside of the mediating water, which risks an uncontrolled chain reaction), they're put into radiation-proof containers and sealed away in nuclear waste sites.