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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's called low-background steel, and how right you are. Traces of nuclear fallout have fuck-all to do with the steel's structural integrity.

Still get the overall point of the OP; we all have latent misconceptions waiting to get us mocked. Nobody sits on a pedal stool above everyone else in that regard.

[–] ElderReflections@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

You leave my evil out of this you son of a bitch!

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: radiation can actually make steel weaker. After decades of being in a reactor, anyway