[Florin_Andrei]

Fundamental science research always has applications decades in the future. It's pretty rare that practical applications are found "now".

[s0rce]

Famously Hertz claimed there would be no application of radio waves.

[zokier]

There is a distinction to be made on the results of the fundamental research itself, and then the sideproducts of the engineering that enables that research. From the sounds of it, this Xray thingy belongs more in the latter category.