Why scientists salvage steel from sunken battleships

Every piece of steel made after 1945 carries traces of nuclear-test fallout. For ultra-sensitive instruments, we harvest 'low-background steel' from…

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We are literally scavenging shipwrecks because the entire modern world is too radioactive for some instruments.

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