Talk:Vemork

It seems essential that the size of the power statoins turbines shoudl be given.Engineman (talk) 06:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

http://www.industcards.com/pp-conversions.htm

Vermork The 60-MW Vemork power station at the Rjukan waterfall in Telemark, Norway, was the world’s largest power plant when it opened in 1911 after six years of construction. The project was so expensive that the works had to be finance by overseas sources. The plant became the corporate precursor to Norsk Hydro. Ten 6-MW T/G sets were supplied by Voith and AEG (Units 1-5) and Escher Wyss and Oerlikon (Units 6-10). Now closed, the facility has been converted into the Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum which, among other things, portrays the area’s history before and during World War II. In 1934, Norsk Hydro built the first commercial heavy water plant with a capacity of 12 tons per year at Vemork. During World War II, the Allies decided to destroy the heavy water plant in order to inhibit the Nazi development of nuclear weapons. In late 1942, a raid by British paratroopers failed when the gliders crashed and all the raiders were killed in the crash or shot by the Gestapo. In 1943, a team of British-trained Norwegian commandos succeeded in a second attempt at destroying the production facility, one of the most important acts of sabotage of the war.

Merge this article?
There is a far more comprehensive and accurate article about this topic at Norsk Hydro Rjukan. I would suggest that this article is merged with that article. In addition some of the material in the Rjukan article should be corrected using that article. Chris55 (talk) 22:16, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Inconsistent power
As pointed out on https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/60452/what-was-the-capacity-of-vemork-power-station, this article claims the power plant has 10 turbine/generator pairs at 6MW each, and that the total power is 108MW. 6 * 10 is not 108MW, so which one is it? Cursory research seems to indicate that the 6MW figure is off by rather a lot. 2001:16B8:A032:8E00:550F:F6F9:8FD8:905D (talk) 00:55, 28 July 2020 (UTC)