Norsk Hydro ASA
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Nov 3, 2026
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The security team sees the proposed action, the expected impact, and what the system still does not know.
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Norsk Hydro shows what operational resilience can accomplish.
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Locker Goga ransomware hit the aluminum producer on March nineteenth, two thousand nineteen.
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Several business areas kept output close to normal through manual procedures, while Extruded Solutions took the main hit.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
Haugan explains that the sun has always been very important to the people of Rukan, ever since the town was founded back in 1907 by industrialist Sam Eide.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
He attracted thousands of workers when he set up the Norsk Hydrol Fertiliser Company here, powered by a vast local waterfall.
Øystein HauganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The sun is important for the health.
Øystein HauganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the Norsk Hydro, they thought if we can get the sun in wintertime, they will get better health and they can be more at the job, produce more.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
Hogan explains that the sun has always been very important to the people of Rukan, ever since the town was founded back in 1907 by industrialist Sam Eide.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
He attracted thousands of workers when he set up the Norsk Hydro Fertilizer Company here, powered by a vast local waterfall.
Øystein HågåGUEST
The sun is important for the health.
Øystein HågåGUEST
And the Norsk Hydro, they thought if we can get the sun in wintertime, they will get better health and they can be more at the job, produce more.
Øystein HågåGUEST
It's a win-win story.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
In fact, some aider did propose a sun mirror already back in 1913, but the technology simply wasn't ready.
Øystein HågåGUEST
When Norskeidio didn't get the sun down to the people, they take the people up to the sun in wintertime.
Øystein HågåGUEST
And they made a cable car in 1928. just for one reason take the people up in the sun of course the director who lives up in the mountains on the higher up in the side he gets the sun one month earlier than the ordinary people so we say if you tell me where when you get the sun back in the springtime i can tell you which job you have on norsk hydro
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
Hogan explains that the sun has always been very important to the people of Rukan, ever since the town was founded back in 1907 by industrialist Sam Eide.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
He attracted thousands of workers when he set up the Norsk Hydrol Fertiliser Company here, powered by a vast local waterfall.
Øystein HauganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The sun is important for the health.
Øystein HauganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the Norsk Hydro, they thought if we can get the sun in wintertime, they will get better health and they can be more at the job, produce more.
John KiriakouHOST
It relied almost entirely on a plant in occupied Norway.
John KiriakouHOST
Norsk Hydro's Vemork plant near Ryukan started producing heavy water in 1934.
John KiriakouHOST
It was the first industrial-scale heavy water plant in the world.
John KiriakouHOST
In early 1940, just before Germany invaded Norway, Norsk Hydro gave its entire stockpile of heavy water, about 200 kilos worth, 440 pounds, to France, which was also working on a reactor that kept it out of German hands.
John KiriakouHOST
Germany invaded Norway in April 1940 and its troops reached Ryokan on May 4th.
John KiriakouHOST
Right after the invasion, Norsk Hydro began talks with IG Farben, its German partner and largest shareholder, about expanding heavy water output.
John KiriakouHOST
The heavy water produced there was then shipped to Germany for reactor experiments.
John KiriakouHOST
Fearing sabotage, the Germans had littered the outskirts of the Vimork electrolysis factory with mines, floodlights, and additional guards.
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The papers were signed on December 2, 1905, in Ada's office in Kristiania, the week after Norway's new king arrived in a country only just independent.
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Norsk Hydro began with 7.5 million kroner of share capital.
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The Wallenbergs Bank in Stockholm, in Skildebanken, controlled half of it, and only 8% of the shares were held by Norwegians.
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Ada became managing director, and Markus Wallenberg became chairman.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
But before we go back to that first sunny day, let's step back to try to understand why the sun, even just a little, matters so much to the people of Rjukan.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
[upbeat music] Back in 1911, industrialist Sam Eyde and his Norsk Hydro company created what was at the time the world's biggest hydroelectric power station, fed by the mighty Rjukan Waterfall.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
The energy was used to produce fertilizer.
Lars BevangerCORRESPONDENT
The town of Rjukan grew out of this development, eventually housing thousands of workers.
Stuart GaryHOST
Now, Timothy Koeth and colleagues from the University of Maryland have analyzed two cubes of natural uranium from that project, as well as historical records, technical reports, correspondence, and other archival material.
Stuart GaryHOST
Using all these resources, they've concluded beyond doubt that to go critical, the B8 pile would have required twice as much uranium as they had and twice as much heavy water as was produced by the Norsk Hydro plant during the entire war.
Stuart GaryHOST
The graphite available in German-controlled areas would simply not have been suitable for a substitute moderator.
Stuart GaryHOST
According to the authors, given the design that the Germans were using, they simply did not have the materials needed to build a working atomic bomb.
Stuart GaryHOST
Now, Timothy Keough and colleagues from the University of Maryland have analyzed two cubes of natural uranium from that project, as well as historical records, technical reports, correspondence, and other archival material.
Stuart GaryHOST
Using all these resources, they've concluded beyond doubt that to go critical, the B8 pile would've required twice as much uranium as they had and twice as much heavy water as was produced by the Norsk Hydro plant during the entire war.
Stuart GaryHOST
The graphite available in German-controlled areas would simply not have been suitable for a substitute moderator.
Stuart GaryHOST
According to the authors, given the design that the Germans were using, they simply did not have the materials needed to build a working atomic bomb.