[Info-vax] lower-cost bulk eraser for high-coercivity tape media (DAT, DLT, Ultrium etc)?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <26ce8f1e-c4dd-4b27-81eb-5f9d5c0274b9 at googlegroups.com>, John
Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes: 

> On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 4:44:58 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >  No amount of erasing or re-writing can clean
> >  a magnetic device.
> 
> Yep.  When I worked at Oak Ridge years ago, the extreme disposal of
> hard drive platters and tapes allegedly involved melting them down,
> mixing in radioactive bits left over from the machine shop, and then
> burying them along with other waste. 

I recently learned that the country/gospel group The Oak Ridge Boys 
derive their name from said nuclear facility.