los alamost national laboratories (lanl) technical area 54 contracted bluegrass for assistance with a stockpile cleanup project. the inventory of 84" diameter exotic steel spheres needed to be segmented into sizes suitable for containment and disposal. bluegrass designed a saw to these specifications: it had to make a continuous cut, without stopping, through steel nearly 3" thick, and to avoid creating contaminated slurry it could not be cooled with water, typically wire saws are cooled by water, thus the wire burned out quicker.