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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
If you know anyone who works / or worked / in the steel industry (at Kembla or Newcastle or Whyalla) ask them what happens when molten steel at 1600oC is poured into a BOS furnace or laddle or mould that's got a bit of water in it.... it's spectacular and very very dangerous.
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That happened at Pt Kembla works when I lived at Coniston. We were woken but what we thought was a small earth tremor. It turned out that some slag had been poured onto some water. I'm not sure of the quantities involved but I can't imagine there was more than 1 rail wagon of slag, so <100t. We were probably about 3-4km from it.