Technetium Steel

Technetium steel is a steel based alloy mixed with technetium-99 to give it extreme corrosion resistance.

Technetium Steel
Properties
Type	Alloy
Made With/By	Blast Furnace
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	N/A

Production

To produce Technetium Steel, you need to combine steel with a single nugget of technetium-99 in a blast furnace of any kind or through the Crucible. This will yield one bar of Technetium Steel.

Uses

Note: Cadmium steel is able to be substituted for almost every single recipe with technetium steel.

Technetium Steel is used to create barrels that can store highly corrosive materials and fluids, the Deuterium Filter which is needed to create the Deuterium Extractor and the Deuterium Extraction Tower, the reactor remote control block, moderated RBMK fuel rods, the Gas Centrifuge Overclock Upgrade, the Magnetic Extractor, and the Reinforced Block of Niter.

Other uses include the assembly factory, the chemical factory, the power fist, the research reactor and breeding reactor, two different kinds of highly corrosion resistant tanks, the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator and Radiolysis Chamber, and the Maxwell Turret.

Trivia

• Technetium steel is based on real proposals for Tc-based corrosion coatings for steel, but has never been adopted due to its weak radioactivity.
• In real life, the technetium and steel are combined in a reversible chemical process and not a metallurgical one. The technetium is applied while the steel is submerged in water by adding a technetium chemical compound to the water.
  • The mechanism is not fully understood, but one theory suggests it chemically reacts with the steel to form a layer of technetium dioxide on its surface. It can also apparently be reversed by introducing iron powder to the water.