Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage> ?p ?o }
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage abstract "The Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of actions undertaken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water (deuterium oxide), which could be used to produce nuclear weapons. In 1934, at Vemork, Norsk Hydro built the first commercial plant capable of producing heavy water as a byproduct of fertilizer production. It had a capacity of 12 tonnes (13 short tons) per year. During World War II, the Allies decided to remove the heavy water supply and destroy the heavy water plant in order to inhibit the Nazi development of nuclear weapons. Raids were aimed at the 60 MW Vemork power station at the Rjukan waterfall in Telemark, Norway.Prior to the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, the Deuxième Bureau (French military intelligence) removed 185 kg (408 lb) of heavy water from the plant in Vemork in then-neutral Norway. The plant's managing director, Aubert, agreed to lend the heavy water to France for the duration of the war. The French transported it secretly to Oslo, to Perth, Scotland, and then to France. The plant remained capable of producing heavy water.The Allies remained concerned that the occupation forces would use the facility to produce more heavy water for their weapons programme. Between 1940 and 1944, a sequence of sabotage actions, by the Norwegian resistance movement—as well as Allied bombing—ensured the destruction of the plant and the loss of the heavy water produced. These operations—codenamed Grouse, Freshman, and Gunnerside—finally managed to knock the plant out of production in early 1943.In Operation Grouse, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) successfully placed four Norwegian nationals as an advance team in the region of the Hardanger Plateau above the plant in October 1942. The unsuccessful Operation Freshman was mounted the following month by British paratroopers; they were to rendezvous with the Norwegians of Operation Grouse and proceed to Vemork. This attempt failed when the military gliders crashed short of their destination, as did one of the tugs, a Handley Page Halifax bomber. The other Halifax returned to base, but all the other participants were killed in the crashes or captured, interrogated, and executed by the Gestapo.In February 1943, a team of SOE-trained Norwegian commandos succeeded in destroying the production facility with a second attempt, Operation Gunnerside. Operation Gunnerside was later evaluated by SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II.These actions were followed by Allied bombing raids. The Germans elected to cease operation and remove the remaining heavy water to Germany. Norwegian resistance forces sank the ferry, SF Hydro, on Lake Tinnsjø, preventing the heavy water from being removed.".
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage isPartOfMilitaryConflict World_War_II.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage place Norsk_Hydro.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage place Vemork.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage result "Decisive Allied victory".
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage thumbnail Vemork_Hydroelectric_Plant_1935.jpg?width=300.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink Vemork,+Norway.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink abtknutslides.html.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink www.assaultgliderproject.co.uk.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink index.htm.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink vemorkraid.htm.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink 1943_2.html.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink birger-stromsheim-who-aided-raid-on-nazi-plant-dies-at-101.html.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink hydro.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink joachim.html.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink browse.php?mode=viewc&catid=45.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageExternalLink freshman.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageID "879501".
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageLength "40937".
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageOutDegree "201".
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageRevisionID "683408187".
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink 1st_Airborne_Division_(United_Kingdom).
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink 1st_British_Airborne_Division.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Abwehr.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Adolf_Hitler.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Airborne_Museum_at_Aldershot.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Airspeed_Horsa.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Allies_of_World_War_II.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Alsos_Mission.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Army_Air_Corps_(United_Kingdom).
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Arne_Kjelstrup.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Atomic_bomb.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Axel_Aubert.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink BBC.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Barbara_Hershey.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Dunkirk.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Battlefield_1942:_Secret_Weapons_of_WWII.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Between_Silk_and_Cyanide.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Between_Silk_and_Cyanide:_A_Codemakers_Story_1941-1945.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Birger_Strømsheim.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Blazing_Angels:_Squadrons_of_WWII.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Blazing_Angels_Squadrons_of_WWII.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Bordeaux.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink But_For_These_Men.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Caithness.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Acts_of_sabotage.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Battles_and_operations_of_World_War_II_involving_Norway.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Conflicts_in_1940.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Conflicts_in_1942.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Conflicts_in_1943.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Conflicts_in_1944.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_history_of_Norway_during_World_War_II.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Norwegian_resistance_movement.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Nuclear_program_of_Nazi_Germany.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tinn.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Landing_Establishment.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Howard,_20th_Earl_of_Suffolk.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Jocelyn_Hambro.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Christmas.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Claus_Helberg.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Coat_of_Arms_(album).
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Combined_Operations_(United_Kingdom).
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Combined_Operations_Headquarters.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Commando_Order.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Consolidated_B-24_Liberator.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Danny_Boyle.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink David_Niven.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Deuterium.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Deuxième_Bureau.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Einar_Skinnarland.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Electrolysis.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Electrolyte.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Enemy_Front.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Enriched_uranium.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Enrico_Fermi.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink FX_(TV_channel).
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Fissile.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Fissile_material.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Fissionable.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink František_Běhounek.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Fredrik_Kayser.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Fritz_Strassmann.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Frédéric_Joliot-Curie.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink German_invasion_of_Norway.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink German_nuclear_energy_project.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink German_nuclear_weapon_project.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Gestapo.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Graphite.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Gunnar_Syverstad.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Gunnerside.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Handley_Page_Halifax.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Hans_Storhaug.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Hans_Suess.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Hardanger_Plateau.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Hardangervidda.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Heavy_bomber.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Heavy_water.
- Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage wikiPageWikiLink Heroes_of_Telemark.