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British Steel has also announced it will no longer need to carry out a "salamander tap" process which is used to temporarily shut down a blast furnace by drilling a hole to remove any remaining hot metal.

Nick finally arrived in a decidedly unsexy Suburban and swaggered toward me; I lost my breath and teetered against the hot metal of my car.

A so-called "Salamander Tap" can be used to temporarily shut down a blast furnace by drilling a hole to remove any remaining hot metal.

The arc flash caused hot metal fragments to drop and ignite dried brush, the investigators said.

As well as its financial concerns, Tata Steel has said it would be a safety risk to begin construction while hot metal was still being produced on site.