U.S. Plans to Tighten Nuclear Power Plant Security

CDMA_Demo writes "The 103 nuclear reactors running in USA can voluntarily agree to follow a new 15 page update to a 1996 regulatory guide. The update notes possibility of "unauthorized, undesirable, and unsafe intrusions", and recommends measures aginst such activities. It also recommends such facilities to be cut off from external networks: "Remote access...[that may pose a potential security risk]...should not be implemented". The Slammer worm in 2001 managed to bring down the network at Ohio's David-Besse nuclear plant and concerns kept growing at the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."

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Re:The Only Concerns at IAEA

[Master of Transhuman]

Are you in for a surprise this year...

The idea that the Israelis don't want an expansion of the war in the Middle East is so laughable I can't imagine anyone actually believing that. Have you read ANYTHING the Israelis have said about Iran over the last year (at least)? How many times have they said they will NOT TOLERATE a nuclear-armed Iran (leaving aside the fact that there is NO evidence the Iranians are even trying to get a nuclear weapons program, let alone any actual weapons - certainly not nearly enough to counter Israel's estimated 100-200 nuclear weapons...)?

Also, your aggregation of "no one" wanting war must exclude the neocons who are regularly lobbying for exactly that in most of their missives in their national media. And Bush listens to those assholes, not you.

Finally, as to the Iraqis being able to defeat the US military, certainly it will cost them about a million Iraqi lives. Npbody said it would be easy. But it is utterly impossible for the US force presently in Iraq to control the country without resorting to nuclear weapons. A mass national resistance will without question have the capability of totaling defeating the US forces there within six months. Merely cutting off the flow of supplies to US bases - a process which is already being done to some degree by the few resistance fighters presently involved - would insure total US defeat. There is NO chance the US could successfully resupply 150,000 troops - let alone the hundreds of thousands more needed to cope with a mass national resistance involving one hundred thousand resistance fighters - with food, water, fuel and ammo via airlift or any other means if the insurgency were to massively enlarge - as it would if Sistani were to mobilize the Shia to join the resistance. Sistani has avoided issuing such a fatwa until now only because he had his eyes on the prize - a national election that empowers the Shia. Well, he (presumably, depending on the election results) has that now. So there is nothing stopping him from re-iterating what he has said before - that the first priority of the national assembly is to demand a timetable for withdrawal by the US - as he put it, "remove all traces of foreign occupation." And he will issue a fatwa if the US does not promise to exit Iraq in a timely manner - which we already know - and Bush has confirmed - Bush will not do. The entire exercise is a simple Q.E.D.