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> pre-WW2 steel in the medical industry (no radiation contamination from nuclear tests, cannot be replicated) Interesting rabbit hole this one... but FWIW it's
by bagacrap 3y ago
> pre-WW2 steel in the medical industry (no radiation contamination from nuclear tests, cannot be replicated)
Interesting rabbit hole this one... but FWIW it's not as dramatic as this comment makes it sound. Newer steel is good enough because background radiation has dropped significantly since the 60s, plus there are non standard steel making techniques that don't lead to contamination.
- juujian 3y agoHaven't gone down that rabbit hole for a while, thanks for the update!
- NineStarPoint 3y agoDepending on the use case newer steel made in a standard fashion isn't always good enough. But indeed it's not that it cannot be replicated, but just that it's often more expensive to replicate than it is to just recycle old steel instead.
- samstave 3y agoI wonder if the seeming uptick in cancers for people born in the 50s is related to just how many test explosions were done? I cant pull up the stats via chatGPT, but I can pull up cancer stats from NIH - but the goal is to look at cancer death rates for the population of Las Vegas Nevada by each decade - as it states that radiation background has dropped since the 1960s -- It would be interesting noting births in Las Vegas starting in 1950, and comparing that with cancer rates btwn 1965-1975 compared with the number of nuke tests done in NV during the 1960s - My grandfather was a nuke eng for GE for 50+ years, he was on the design team of Hanford... He died of thyroid/throat cancer via exenguination and we won a lawsuit against GE for nukes that were exposed to high radiation levels unbeknownst to them for exposure and risks/threats...