I haven't heard of low-emissivity steel. Do you mean low-background steel [1]?
My guess: low background steel is demanded more by low-background experiments like neutrino or dark matter detectors. Most of the LHC experiments work in an environment with enough (intentional) radiation to require special radiation hard electronics. The kind of environment is orders of magnitude more radioactive than the ones where the background radiation from steel becomes important.
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I'm presuming that the tanks were a source of low-emissivity steel?
I haven't heard of low-emissivity steel. Do you mean low-background steel [1]?
My guess: low background steel is demanded more by low-background experiments like neutrino or dark matter detectors. Most of the LHC experiments work in an environment with enough (intentional) radiation to require special radiation hard electronics. The kind of environment is orders of magnitude more radioactive than the ones where the background radiation from steel becomes important.
But please correct me if I'm wrong!
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
It may have been a joke... As in, tanks that were not producing much firepower? Don't know xd
Don't have the details, it was a fun fact they told me when I went downstairs there.