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MoD's Error Leaks Secrets of UK Nuclear Submarine

Posted by timothy on from the captain-ramius-did-have-a-scottish-brogue dept.

Tasha26 writes "UK's Ministry of Defence admitted that secret information about its nuclear powered submarines was leaked on the internet by mistake. A 'technical error' (i.e. turning the background colour of certain text to black) meant that sensitive blacked-out parts of the online MoD report could be read by anyone who copy-pasted it into another document. This accidental leak reveals, among many other things, how easy it would be to cause a Fukushima-style reactor meltdown in a sub, and details of measures used by the US Navy to protect its own nuclear submarines."

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  1. People Are Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why are the people who control dangerous things always so stupid?

    Simple: The vast majority of people are stupid.

  2. Fukushima-style? by neokushan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "This accidental leak reveals, among many other things, how easy it would be to cause a Fukushima-style reactor meltdown in a sub"

    Is that it, now? Is every single thing to do with nuclear reactors going to be compared to Fukushima from now on? What about if terrorists wanted to create a Chernobyl-style meltdown, or how about a three-mile-island-style meltdown?
    No really, it's fine, I don't mind throwing random keywords in there to grab extra attention when it's completely unnecessary.

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    1. Re:Fukushima-style? by Kilrah_il · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Fukushima is the Library of Congress of nuclear meltdowns. Just as 9/11 is the LoC of terror attacks. People love relative terms; nobody understands a 10^9 becquerel of radiation.

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    2. Re:Fukushima-style? by TheSync · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Fukushima meltdown means your backup cooling method goes out after a scram (and tsunami), and you are basically screwed. This requires a failure of imagination about worst possible scenarios combined with a bad plant location.

      Chernobyl explosion is a criticality accident. This requires a really high level of ignorant stupidity or purposeful attack.

      Three Mile Island meltdown is that you don't realize a valve is open and your core water boils away. This requires a level of stupidity in human/machine interaction.

  3. Re:Daily Star? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The newspaper is most famous for its page-3 topless girls

    Which is something that Slashdot could use more of! Forget, "OMG! Ponies!" How about next April 1st, we see a page-3 topless girls Slashdot site. Sure should be more interesting than all of those other April 1st articles . . .

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