A new metal has been created, and it's not just for the big boys
When we forge a new piece of metal, we do so for something we need or want. Raising nuclear temperatures to an impossible level of 1500 C has proven to be an effective way of creating a new metal that approximates the properties of certain types of steel while also bringing with it other exciting attributes. Check out this blog post to learn more
The team at Oakridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have discovered that they can make a metal with remarkable properties by using the heat from nuclear weapons. The goal was to find a way to mimic the properties of super-hard steel without having to go through all the trouble of having to melt down reactors and create large quantities of radioactive waste
Instead, they found a way to mimic them by raising the temperature high enough for atoms in their nuclei to combine into molecules that can then combine into rings, which form chains and eventually into sheets 〞 all without producing any radioactive waste in the process!
metal forged before nukes
