Specific examples of its modern-day applications include detecting spent nuclear waste and cargo scanning for homeland security.
However, the most interesting results are related with waste from cargo ships, for which, four countries concentrate very high risk (France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain).
As instructed, the army downed the ship, killing a number of Israelis on board and wasting its cargo.
Glass bottles, while easy to recycle, are not environmentally friendly to ship, as they're heavy and waste space in cargo containers.
If the hoard in Vault A turned out to be worth half the twenty-billion-dollar estimate, it would likely earn enough interest in one year to cover the cost of the major projects in the state's 2012 budget, including new waste-processing plants, cargo ports, ambulances, office parks, hospital trauma units, and a modern laboratory for monitoring food and drug quality.
The ship departed Estonia in October after it was allowed to unload its remaining cargo of waste, which was to be processed at a waste-treatment facility.
Two Chinese-branded water bottles and an Indonesian cleaning product have also been washed up on a nearby beach, although they could be waste from passing Asian cargo ships.
Millions of gallons of fresh water risk being wasted if the large cargo — water purification equipment that is used in oil processing — cannot be installed before winter, the company said.
And vessels of noxious cargo, like nuclear waste, or of dubious skipperdom, like rusting freighters full of duped refugees, might earn an opprobrious capitalization: It.
UNSTOPPABLE Denzel Washington, as a veteran train engineer, and Chris Pine, as an enterprising young conductor, do their darnedest to stop a runaway engine nicknamed the Beast as it plows toward a city with a cargo of toxic waste.
