The search for lost Nazi uranium:
In the chaotic final days of the war, some of the uranium cubes ended up on the black market, others found their way to the U.S., and still others simply scattered to the winds. One of them found its way to University of Maryland physicist Timothy Koeth’s desk in 2013, kicking off a search for its origins and an international hunt for the rest.Germany’s World War II nuclear program sounds like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.
and found no evidence that uranium atoms in the cube had ever been split into lighter elements, like cesium, during a fission reaction.photo from LepoRello, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ That should have been possible, because there were 400 other cubes at other labs in Germany, in the hands of rival physicists engaged in fierce and sometimes deeply personal competition with the lab at Haigerloch. “This highlights perhaps the biggest difference between the German and American nuclear research programs,” said Miriam Hiebert, a doctoral candidate in engineering at the University of Maryland, in a press statement.
In a paroxysm of humility, Groves named the team ALSOS, which is Greek for “groves.” They shipped most of the cubes back to Paris, the UK, and the U.S., both to bolster the American nuclear program and to keep the uranium out of the hands of the Soviet Union. But from there, the ALSOS cubes also mostly dropped out of sight. Several probably ended up as raw material for the postwar American weapons enrichment program, based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
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