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Re:Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way by hyperdimension on Monday July 08, 2019 @05:22PM (#20386884)
But then where would we get non-irradiated steel from? We're already harvesting it from old, pre-nuclear-era sunken ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
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Re:Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way by RobLach on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @04:34PM (#20396288)
Irradiated steel comes from irradiated air used in the steel making process, all of which came from bombs detonated in the atmosphere.

Nuclear waste sitting at the bottom of the ocean will have a hard time ever reaching the atmosphere.

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