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Europe » Norway » Southern Norway » Rjukan July 2nd 2015

The Norwegian nature and various cultural and industrial heritage sites In the previous blog entry I wrote about the production of heavy water in Norway during the second world war and the events around that. When I visited Lake Tinnsjo, Rjukan Railway and Vemork Power Station, some of the key places in Nazi-Germany's quest for heavy water, I also went to some places unrelated to World War II. In this blog entry I will write about that. OK, I will also write about Vemork Power Station but only for its significance as an industrial heritage site. When you travel through Telemark District the dramatic landscape and the beautiful nature is what you will remember it for afterwards. There are waterfalls everywhere and they come in every size. There are big thundering ones cascading down, there are ... read more
Dramatic landscape
Waterfall
Waterfall and reflection

Europe » Norway » Southern Norway » Rjukan July 1st 2015

The heroes of Telemark This blog entry is named "The heroes of Telemark" after a British film from 1965. The film is based on a true story about how a group of Norwegians managed to prevent the Nazi regime in Germany to get access to heavy water which the Nazis needed in their atomic bomb program. In early July I, Ake, went to Norway for a few days because I wanted to visit the site where the heavy water was produced and, thanks to the Norwegian sabotage team, and eventually destroyed. In 1911 the Vemork Power Plant was finished and started to produce electric power. This power-plant was then the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. The water for the power plant was taken from a dam further upstream and brought to the turbines in ... read more
Telemark District
Unit for extraction of heavy water
A glass of water in Vemork Power Station




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