Why the British steel industry is on the brink of extinction - or a green resurrection
The UK steel industry is at a turning point - a way of life is already lost for many former workers. But if it can be resurrected as a powerful motor of a green economy, it's a tantalising prospect. Sky's Ed Conway takes an in-depth look at the industry's future.
We are standing at the base of Number Five blast furnace at the steelworks in Port Talbot. Outside, it's another gusty spring day in South Wales.
Inside the cast house floor, the air is thick with the acrid smell of sulphur and soot. Only a few metres away behind the refractory lining of the oven, is a bubbling reservoir of, for want of a better word, lava.
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