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After the detonation of the first nuclear weapons, any newly produced steel has a low dose of nuclear fallout.

For applications that need to avoid the background radiation (like physics research), pre atomic age steel is extracted, like from old shipwrecks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel



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