Your newest nightmare: The hacked nuclear power plant
Jim Galloway AJC.com
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... before Sept. 11, 2001, very few people had conceived of domestic airliners as potential weapons. So we must rethink nuclear plants and their dependence on computer systems linked with the outside world, says Nunn – a supporter of civilian nuclear power generation.
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Access systems could be compromised, the NTI report suggests, allowing thieves inside to wreak havoc or steal nuclear material. Accounting systems could be hacked to hide such thefts. Here’s one for you: “Reactor cooling systems could be deliberately disabled, resulting in a Fukushima-like disaster.”
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When it came to the sabotage of nuclear power plants (there were other, broader assessments of how nations handle nuclear material), NTI says nearly half the 47 countries it assessed lacked the legal and technical foundation to fight off cyber attacks on their nuclear plants.
There is, of course, the matter of casting your eyes around the world and figuring out where the risks are greatest...
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It's called climate change.
While little barely literate (or completely illiterate) crybabies have been insisting for the last half a century, using childish innuendo, that nuclear energy was "dangerous" even important scientists were showing that it was saving lives on a scale of millions of human beings, the planetary atmosphere's rate of collapse was reaching new heights.
Despite all the vacuous representations that the so called "renewable energy" scam was working just great, a claim put forth by gas and mining interests to cover their filthy tracks, the planetary atmosphere showed the results of it up for what it is.
I remarked on it today, right here. Predictably no dumb anti-nukes weighed in, because at the end of the day, they're not interested at all in the environment, specifically in climate change.
2015 comes in as the worst year ever observed at the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory.
What matters to these people, these mindless, intellectually bereft, and completely amoral anti-nukes is not climate change, not mining millions of tons on lanthanides, cadmium, and the doubling of demand for aluminum and steel to build their unreliable and temporary junk. Observed consequences of dangerous fossil fuels don't matter to them; in their stupid world theory - even dumb theories made up by dumb people - trumps experiment.
All they care about is trashing the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free primary energy, nuclear energy.
To return to the consequences of fossil fuels, note too, they don't give a rat's ass about the 3.3 million people who die each year from air pollution.
None of this matters compared to a stupid innuendo comic book rhetoric about hacking into nuclear plants all from the stupid self-referential internet circles of anti-nukes, each one dumber than the other.
These people are as shameless as they are mindless, and the fact that we are now have just lived through the worst year ever observed for carbon dioxide increase ever observed may be laid directly at their oil stained feet, no matter how many gas bag bits of innuendo and other sloppy thinking they employ.
History, should it survive these awful ignorant people, will not forgive them, nor should it.
Don't expect a single dumb assed anti-nuke to care a whit about the graphic below, referring to the air pollution death toll per unit area, all around the world:
Nature 525, 367–371 (17 September 2015)
They're too busy making shit up to care.
Enjoy the week.
