Have you ever heard of pre-war steel? Did you know that it just so happens to be a precious resource? But where can you find it? Why, old shipwrecks, of course.

Christopher McFadden Aug 23, 2023 READ

Pre-war steel, more accurately termed low-background steel, is any steel produced before the first nuclear bomb was detonated on the 16th of July, 1945. Codenamed “Trinity,” this detonation would change the world in many ways, including chemically. Nuclear explosions released into the atmosphere dozens of radioactive isotopes that had never before existed in nature, such as Plutonium-239, Strontium-90, Caesium-137, and Technetium-99.