Lost Nazi nuke-project uranium found in Dutch scrapyard:
Atomic CSI team fingerprints 1940s 'Joachimsthal' metals
By Lewis Page Posted in Physics, 19th February 2010 13:37 GMT
EU nuke boffins say that mysterious bits of uranium found last year in a Dutch scrapyard originated in the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme of the 1940s.
Forensic nuke scientists at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) traced the two pieces of metal - described as a cube and a plate - back to their exact origins and dates. Apparently both came from ores extracted at the "Joachimsthal" mine in what is now the Czech Republic, though the two are from different production batches.
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