The Indiana v a Hospital - A Battleship With Low Background Steel

Large sections of the hull, weighing a total of 210 tons, were also fabricated into a room. The room was first constructed at the university of utah medical center in salt lake city and used for many years in radiobiology research. These applications were probably never imagined by the original designers of the indiana. But instead of protecting against artillery shells and torpedoes, the new purpose is to shield radiation detectors from the background radiations originating from cosmic, atmospheric, man made and terrestrial sources.