There's an app for that.
While not at all humorous in anyway it does show how technology (even personal tech) can and is being used to help locate unfortunate victims of catastrophic disasters.
SOURCE: Find My iPhone helps find wreckage of Chilean plane crash | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence
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The Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO hopes to put a makeshift roof over the reactor 3 turbine building at the Link Removed in preparation for Typhoon Ma-on.
The roof would cover a hole caused by a hydrogen blast in March after an earthquake and tsunami hit the plant. A hose from the reactor to a...
The United Nations nuclear agency’s decision to hold talks about the Fukushima disaster behind closed doors this week ignores the “blindingly obvious” need for greater transparency, said a former official in the U.K. atomic industry.
Fukushima Failures Kept Behind Closed Doors - Bloomberg