From: Douglas Greville (dgrev@ruralnet.net.au)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 18:13:32 PDT
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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