What if the germans...

"Denyav" wrote in message
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The classic example was their nuclear research project. There was
a period in late 44 when both Heisenberg and Diebner were
running parallel programs and both required heavy water.
There was only enough for one or the other but the German
reaction was to give each a portion

Diebner did not require any heavy water in late 44

Yes he did. His experimental reactor at Stadtilm was a
heavy water moderated design and his job tiltles included
Commissioner for Norwegian HeavyWater Production

,that the reason why he
succeded

He failed, the reactor never achieved criticallity, ironically
however they did accidentally discover that they got
greater neutron miltiplication amongst the graphite blocks
sourrounding the reactor than with the uranium assembly
in the reactor itself. At last in March 1945 they had
stumbled on the fact that graphite could be used as a
moderator, far too late to use that fact since US troops
arrived only days later.

And why British troops seized more than 10t heavy water in a warehouse
in Hamburg.

No such seizure was made and the maximum production during the
war was around 140 kg per month

You also forgat to mention Houtermans and von Ardenne.

No their period of original work came after the war when they
worked in the Soviet nuclear program.

Actually the only German researcher who could have produced
a bomb was Paul Harteck who attempted to develop the
centrifuge enrichment process with virtually no official
backing.

Keith




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