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Originally Posted by johndallman
The first place where it could show is isotopes, once they start on nuclear technology. Since the basic concept of isotopes is firmly TL6, first theorised in 1913, it's imaginable that these worlds lack them. However, the ASN probably haven't got that far yet.
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Well, Hans Kammler's position in late-war Germany put him in a position to know a) That the German nuclear research was primarily viewed as of utility as a new form of power plant that would generate massive amounts of energy, b) Who appeared on the Osenberg list and who among them was involved in the
Uranverein and therefore not available for any of the
Wunderwaffen projects
he was overseeing, and c) Where the research took place and where the scientists and the equipment was moved, as it was his SS men who were dispatched to do so.
And as one of the ablest, most competent men among the ASN at administering massive projects in secrecy, he probably knew more than anyone not personally casting the spells about the efforts of the ASNs from 1943-1945. If anything odd needed arranging, Kammler was the one who coordinated between the various fiefdoms of senior SS men, industrialists, military, security or the latter-war amalgamations of many of these. Kammler was never
told about the Faustian bargain with the Lords of the Last Waste, but he certainly grasped the essence of it even before the ASNs officially settled.
Kammler would have considered the development of this new energy souce imperative and if he could not find some trustworthy physicists who'd be open to recruitment, he would not have been above having his SS men bring unwilling physicists when they were sent to move them as the Allies got closer. And while Kammler lived, he'd have done his best to provide official support for research into nuclear reactors (he wouldn't consider bombs worth tehe effort in their strategic position).
Of course, there is every chance that those physicists Kammler was able to convince or kidnap would not have been enough and as wartime Germany barely had the resources to carry out the research in a way that would results on any fast time frame, it might theoretically be that even in Year 51, there is little useful to show for the research.
But there
would have been physicists carrying out some experiments that continued the work done by Heisenberg and others invokved in the German project, and they'd have had copies of all work accessible by the SS when they moved the works from Berlin in 1944 and whatever else they could copy or steal.
Short story, there is no discernible difference between uranium or any other radioactive material from Earth or
Germania Hyperborea. They've also tested material they got from
Jötunheim and it's apparently radioactive as well, though perhaps somehow subtly different.