Many companies and not-for-profit organizations worldwide already are helping to divert materials from landfills and get items re-sold and reused.
It built its weapons by diverting material from civilian nuclear plants -- just what the United States says Iran is doing.
Still, diplomats expect sharp debate over the American list of goods that Washington wants to monitor so that Iraq cannot reconstruct weapons by diverting material or equipment that also has civilian uses.
Efforts to ban or restrict creative, imaginative and diverting material — from novels and film to comic books, popular music and video games — have always relied on oversimplified claims that they "caused" problems ranging from juvenile delinquency to sexual promiscuity.
Still, her life-story brims with plenty of diverting material: a spell working for the organisation commanded by Beatles manager Brian Epstein; recollections of hanging out with Paul McCartney; depression; single parenthood; bulimia; valium; and lots of political activism (her political hero, she claims, is Labour bigmouth and quaint throwback Dennis Skinner).
Should it ever emerge that a rogue state, or terrorist group, has used illegally diverted material to make and let off a crude nuclear weapon, or even a less spectacular "dirty" radiological device, the power industry's hope of a nuclear future would be among the many victims.Fear of fuel diversion is growing, along with fear of proliferation in general.
Disaffected individuals in Pakistan (which, remember, was intimate with the Taliban) would have no trouble finding the illicit channels or the rationalization for diverting materials, expertise -- even, conceivably, a warhead.
At the time, the United States and its allies feared that North Korea was diverting materials from the reactor to a weapons program, and they threatened to impose economic sanctions -- and considered military action -- to force Pyongyang to readmit the monitors.
In the particular case of adab, the initial priorities involved the preparation of codes of conduct and practice for the increasingly large secretariat, which was growing in conjunction with the administrative needs of the ever-expanding Islamic dominions, and of useful (and often diverting) materials with which they could fulfill the demands of their profession.
In sandstone reservoirs, there is no enough calcite to react with these fluids to produce the gel diverting materials and because of the adsorption of polymers and surfactants by the sandstone formations which will create more damage (Friedmann 1986).
