Vemork
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Vemork is a hydroelectric power plant and a museum outside the town of Rjukan in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The plant was built by Norsk Hydro and opened in 1911, its main purpose b
Site of the plant in 2003
Vemork, Rjukan
The plant in 1947 or 1948. The heavy water was produced in the front building, the Hydrogen Production Plant.
Heavy water
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Heavy water is a form of water in which all hydrogen atoms are hydrogen-2 isotope or deuterium rather than the common hydrogen-1 isotope that makes up most of the hydrogen in normal water. The presenc
Vemork
…world's largest power plant with a capacity of 108 megawatts (145,000 hp). Vemork was later the site of the first plant in the world to mass-produce heavy water developing from the hydrogen production then used for the Haber process. During World War II, Vemork was the target of Norwegian heavy water sabotage…
"Heavy water" made by Norsk Hydro