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Liberty Speciality Steels Electric Arc Furnace in Rotherham

"You're in for a good one today boys." It had rained all week and the scrap metal pile outside had been getting wet. When the steel is dumped into the white hot crucible for the arc furnace, any water on the steel turns to steam in a flash and expands creating a huge explosion of hot metal sparks as high as the ceiling.

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