Uranium Cubes and Wartime Records Show Nazi Germany’s Last Reactor Needed About Twice the Fuel It Had
Nature World News | 21.10.2026 22:01
Nazi Germany's final attempt at a nuclear reactor was not a near miss — a study in PNAS Nexus calculates that the B8 reactor built under physicist Werner Heisenberg in April 1945 would have needed about twice the uranium and more than twice the heavy water it contained to sustain a chain reaction, quantities that exceeded what Germany had during the entire war.
