As Hurricane Sandy blasted the New Jersey shore with winds nearing speeds of 100 mph, 26 nuclear plants were on high alert. One of these plants was the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey, N.J. The plant, which is America’s oldest, was shut down for maintenance during the storm, but it still faced the onslaught of unusually high water. Experts, including Christopher Busby of the European Committee on Radiation Risks, said that the plant’s corroded rods were dangerous, even if the plant was offline.
Emergency personnel had to be ready to respond quickly in case radiation posed a threat. According to Neil Sheehan, a Nuclear Regulatory Committee spokesman, federal inspectors relied on satellite phones to keep communications up during the storm. As Sandy knocked out power and disabled cellular communications, satellite phones helped first responders reach people in need of assistance. Some companies even reported an increase in satellite phone rentals before the storm as people anticipated cellular communications would be unavailable.
More and more, people have realized that satellite communication is essential during emergencies. In fact, back in 2008, the state of New Jersey purchased 21 satellite phones, one for each emergency management department in each of its 21 counties.Over the years, first responders have learned to construct what they call “hastily formed networks” (HFN), which enable communications and Internet access when other infrastructure is disabled. Satellite technology has a high up-front cost, but its dependability in a crisis has motivated many states and municipalities to invest in satellite phones for emergency personnel. [click to continue…]
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Recently Samsung introduced 2 new ATIV notebooks- ATIV Book 5 and 6
I am not sure about the price of 1TB as it is s till a new product. But 
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From the launch of Google way back in September 4th, 1998 they have always been known for their ground-breaking web development and features such as their well-known search engine, Google Maps, Google Adsense, and many other features all brought to you from the Google company. However, as they’re still ever steadily expanding in the online realm of things, they feel that it would be beneficial to tie both their online aspects with tech of the real world to come out with a quite ground-breaking technological piece which they refer to as Google Glass. The Google Glass project has already released to a fairly big group of people in it’s testing phases to better evolve it and what it can do far is literally quite amazing, and simple. Whether you want to take a picture of that very moment, check the time, record a movie in real-time right there and then, share what you see live, find where you’re going, speak to send messages to friends on your social networks, find out more information about something, translate text, or simply get information relevant to your situation without having to ask,
This is the new design Apple has patented last week (March 29, 2013). As you can see this is somewhat different from the as usual liquid-crystal display. In this new wrap around design it has omitted the buttons and have more space for viewing angle. Apple might have use this design to show screen on both side as a result watching movie for two people would be more easier. So, the era of new screen is begining and the concept of only flat screen will be challenged from the new iPhone version, I hope. — AP Photo/U.S. Patent office
