From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 18:58:03 PDT
Something about the air we live in, and all the minerals and machinery we
use to make steel, being contaminated from all the A-bombs that have been
set off since 1945. I have been aware of this need for pre-WW2 steel for
many years. There was a big market for it about a dozen years or so ago for
hospitals in NYC. At that time, I seem to recall that they were cutting up
Liberty Ships.
APB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Greville" <dgrev@ruralnet.net.au>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] WW 2 steel and U boat salvage
> Someone
>
> I beleive that the English government is in the process of letting a
> salvage contract on the large number of U-Boats scuttled off the
> north coast after WW2.
>
> This is supposedly due to the fact that they are pre-atomic age
> steel and this is now regarded as very hard to get (something about
> all current steel process being contaminated. That the steel is
> required for medical imaging machines etc and must be non-radioactive
> down to a minute amount.
>
> Does anyone know what this is all about? Why can't they just get
> freshly mined ore and process it?
>
> I have heard that this is also why the Mediteranean Sea has been
> heavily salved too, for this steel.
>
> What's the big deal?
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
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