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Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran

Posted by kdawson on from the round-up-the-usual-suspects dept.

SixFactor sends in word of a theft of training software for a nuclear plant. An ex-employee of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, in Arizona, allegedly downloaded training software to his laptop while he was in Iran. The software was downloaded from a Maryland-based contractor to the nuclear plant. It contained information about the Palo Verde facility: control rooms, reactors, and design. It was used to simulate situations for training at the site. Why the ex-engineer downloaded the software is not known. What is troubling is this person's ability to access the software after his employment at the site ended.

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  1. Which one? by ms1234 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would it be Nucular or Nuclear? If it's the first, then I'm not worried.

  2. Re:Yeah, that would be the devil's advocate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Readers, take note. This is likely the smartest way possible to say something stupid.

  3. .Torrent? by KoldKompress · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone got the .torrent to the software?
    for.. training purposes. You know.

  4. Re:Why did the server... by lixee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't be that hard to block out connections from rouge countries.

    Ha! I didn't know Iranians were communists.
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  5. OH NOESS!!! by crhylove · · Score: 3, Funny

    They might actually build a CONTROL ROOM. YOU SICK TWISTED MUSLIM TERRORISTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPLORE CHEAP ELECTRICITY!!! OPEC will kill you all!!

    rhY

    PS This is where I put plenty of non caps text because my attempt at /. humor is being lame filtered.

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  6. Re:Yawn. by fatduck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop being silly. Everyone knows we can't trust the Arabs to run a nuclear power plant - they're not even white.

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  7. Re:Which bombing? by Dog-Cow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Japan accepted the most refugees from the Holocaust. I know, personally, many people who went through Japan on their way to the US to escape Germany. Japanese no more dislike Jews than they dislike any other foreigners.

  8. Re:Murderous Dictator is the word you're looking f by CowTipperGore · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fine, though I humbly do suggest that said contractors be required to hire a certain number of people who come back crippled (either physically, emotionally, or mentally) from Iraq or Iran if we go in there. Call it their way of repaying society for the opportunity to make fuck-you money. They already do their part. With the $10 billion profits they made this year, Exxon's executives will be buying even larger houses and replacing their out-dated private jets. Both create jobs and probably are good for the environment in some manner. And Halliburton is moving their headquarters to Dubai to save the American taxpayers money - with all corporate records out of the US there is little point in wasting money on expensive investigations.