URANIUM AND BEER - An explosive mixture

In the shadow of war - the secret world of German nuclear research in Haigerloch. Are you looking to take a break from summer? Then you're in the right place; today we will show you the (dry and cool, no, very cool) #Atomkeller museum in #Haigerloch. The #AtomkellerMuseum in idyllic Haigerloch is historically significant - it is the site of the world's first atomic reactor. The former beer cellar of the Schwanenwirt at the foot of the castle cliff served as a laboratory for a research group from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin during 1944/45. Due to the bombardment of Berlin, the nuclear physicists led by Professor Heisenberg and Professor von Weizsäcker relocated their experimental reactor to the distant Haigerloch in 1944 to continue the energy extraction experiments that had begun in Berlin. Walter Gerlach, the head of the