Borrowed from WW2F.comPzJgr;467455 wrote:Bits of uranium found in a Dutch scrapyard originated in the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme of the 1940s. Forensic nuclear scientists at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) traced the two metal pieces (a cube and a plate) back to their origins: The Joachimsthal mine. The JRC's Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) says the cube was made in 1943 for the Nazi nuclear programme and used in the lab of Werner Heisenberg. The plate was part of experiments by Karl Wirtz. After WWII Heisenberg said: "Probability that this would lead to atomic bombs during the War was nearly zero."
Lost Nazi nuke-project uranium found in Dutch scrapyard
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Heisenberg was not exactly noted for his certainty ...PzJgr;467455 wrote:Bits of uranium found in a Dutch scrapyard originated in the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme of the 1940s. Forensic nuclear scientists at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) traced the two metal pieces (a cube and a plate) back to their origins: The Joachimsthal mine. The JRC's Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) says the cube was made in 1943 for the Nazi nuclear programme and used in the lab of Werner Heisenberg. The plate was part of experiments by Karl Wirtz. After WWII Heisenberg said: "Probability that this would lead to atomic bombs during the War was nearly zero."
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Re: Okay, Leo, how did you miss this?
klr wrote:Heisenberg was not exactly noted for his certainty ...PzJgr;467455 wrote:Bits of uranium found in a Dutch scrapyard originated in the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme of the 1940s. Forensic nuclear scientists at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) traced the two metal pieces (a cube and a plate) back to their origins: The Joachimsthal mine. The JRC's Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) says the cube was made in 1943 for the Nazi nuclear programme and used in the lab of Werner Heisenberg. The plate was part of experiments by Karl Wirtz. After WWII Heisenberg said: "Probability that this would lead to atomic bombs during the War was nearly zero."
It would be interesting to know whether it was even slightly enriched, or the usual proportion of 99.3% U238...
Nuclear energy is precisely what I'm teaching my physics students at the moment. Damn school won't buy any enriched Uranium!
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JimC wrote:http://thevelvetrocket.com/2009/08/25/t ... omic-bomb/klr wrote:Heisenberg was not exactly noted for his certainty ...PzJgr;467455 wrote:Bits of uranium found in a Dutch scrapyard originated in the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme of the 1940s. Forensic nuclear scientists at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) traced the two metal pieces (a cube and a plate) back to their origins: The Joachimsthal mine. The JRC's Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) says the cube was made in 1943 for the Nazi nuclear programme and used in the lab of Werner Heisenberg. The plate was part of experiments by Karl Wirtz. After WWII Heisenberg said: "Probability that this would lead to atomic bombs during the War was nearly zero."
It would be interesting to know whether it was even slightly enriched, or the usual proportion of 99.3% U238...
Nuclear energy is precisely what I'm teaching my physics students at the moment. Damn school won't buy any enriched Uranium!
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