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Norsk Hydro ASA is a Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company, headquartered in Oslo. It is one of the largest aluminium companies worldwide. It has operations in some 50 countries around the
Eivind Kallevik at ALUMINUM 2024
Heavy water sample made by Norsk Hydro
Hydro Aluminum plant in Commerce, Texas
The Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of Allied-led efforts to halt Nazi German heavy water production via hydroelectric plants in German-occupied Norway during World War II, involving both
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…of heavy water per year. Consequently, Norsk Hydro's facilities were the target of several commando and air raids and a sabotage raid which eventually resulted in the plant's destruction and later reconstruction. The first steps towards light metal production came in 1940 when Hydro started construction of a magnesium carbonate plant…
Vemork hydroelectric power plant, c. 1947
Experimental apparatus with which chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938
Reconstruction of the Operation Gunnerside team planting explosives to destroy the cascade of electrolysis chambers