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Low Background Steel

French translation: acier à faible teneur en radionucléides

19:20 Feb 8, 2020
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Tech/Engineering - Metallurgy / Casting / Steel
English term or phrase: Low Background Steel
Définition :
Low-background steel is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. With the Trinity test and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and then subsequent nuclear weapons testing during the early years of the Cold War, background radiation levels increased across the world.[1] Modern steel is contaminated with radionuclides because its production uses atmospheric air. Low-background steel is so-called because it does not suffer from such nuclear contamination. This steel is used in devices that require the highest sensitivity for detecting radionuclides.

The primary source of low-background steel is ships that were constructed before the Trinity test, most famously the scuttled German World War I warships in Scapa Flow.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel


Acier à faible (bruit de) fond ?
Acier faiblement radioactif ?

Merci d'avance pour votre aide.
Laurent Lagalla
France
Local time: 08:38
French translation:acier à faible teneur en radionucléides
Explanation:
Suggestion
cf. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1509f_web....
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Marielle Akamatsu
France
Local time: 08:38
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Merci :)
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Summary of answers provided
3acier à faible teneur en radionucléides
Marielle Akamatsu
2acier pauvre en radionucléides
Nicolas Gambardella
Summary of reference entries provided
métaux sans trace de radioactivité
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low background steel
acier pauvre en radionucléides


Explanation:
Just a proposal.

Nicolas Gambardella
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:38
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low background steel
acier à faible teneur en radionucléides


Explanation:
Suggestion
cf. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1509f_web....

Marielle Akamatsu
France
Local time: 08:38
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Merci :)
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Reference: métaux sans trace de radioactivité

Reference information:
Juste un commentaire ici confirmant la définition donnée dans la question :
https://www.goodplanet.info/2017/11/05/epaves-de-seconde-gue...

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