Report warns of Iran nuke disaster

[steve2470]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110131/ap_on_hi_te/iran_nuclear_virus

VIENNA – The control systems of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant have been penetrated by a computer worm unleashed last year, according to a foreign intelligence report that warns of a possible Chernobyl-like disaster once the site becomes fully operational.

Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, also has raised the specter of the 1986 reactor explosion in Ukraine, but suggested last week that the danger had passed.

The report, drawn up by a nation closely monitoring Iran's nuclear program and obtained by The Associated Press, said such conclusions were premature and based on the "casual assessment" of Russian and Iranian scientists at Bushehr.

With control systems disabled by the virus, the reactor would have the force of a "small nuclear bomb," it said.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Iran is filled with millions of innocent people.

Also there are many millions more outside their borders who would suffer immeasurably if the reactor were to blow or spray nuclear contaminants into the atmosphere.

It is these considerations that keep me from crowing out, "Go for it, idiots! Plug that baby in."

[leveymg]

2. Some of the memory cards in Programmable Industrial Controllers were corrupted. Easy fix, not a big

deal to correct the damage done by the Stuxnet virus. All the technicians at Bushehr have to do was swap out the infected memory cards in a batch of Siemens PICs that had been tampered with. Takes about five minutes to replace the cards.



The rest is hysterical nonsense or propaganda.