"Denyav" wrote in message
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But the Germans were no where
near building a reactor, much less a bomb. Thus the choice of moderator
was inconsequential.

Germans had not one but two graphite moderated reactors and one of them
was in
Thuringer Forest,if Germans had no working reactor Hirosima and Nagazaki
could
not be bombed anytime in 1945.

Cite please

There are no references in the literature to any German reactor
ever reaching criticallity so please provide the evidence for ths
claim.

Keith