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Vemork
Vemork, a small community in Norway, close to the city Rjukan and within the Tinn municipality, in the county of Telemark.
In 1906 Norsk Hydro started builing a huge hydro electrical powerplant at Vemork, and the power made it possible to establish a factory for producing heavy water.
During the german occupation of Norway in World War II the heavy water production plant was sabotaged by SOE, the aim was to deny the germans having an atomic bomb.
Today the original powerplant is a industrial museum. The exhibitions cover both the heavy water sabotage and early Norwegian labour movement.
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