-
I just learned that for some applications, people use steel recycled from WW2 battleships. Because all the steel produced after WW2 is too radioactive. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
-
while i'm on the subject, did you see this story? qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civilians-on-a-scale-comparable-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/ like half a million people ultimately died as a result of US nuclear weapons testing