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That sinking feeling (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by kersploosh to c/[email protected]

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[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 day ago

Atmosphere doesn't make cold steel radioactive. The problem is production - impurities are removed through oxidation, i.e., blowing a whole lot of air through molten iron. We take the result from from wrecked ships because nobody's using them for anything else.

... huh. Wikipedia says it doesn't even matter nowadays. Background radiation levels are tolerable for instrumentation.