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Stuxnet has nothing to do with "nuclear reactors". It targeted uranium enrichment centrifuges.


Corrected, my mistake. I even managed to get it right the first time in the paragraph below that, it must be the sleep deprivation catching up with me.


sigh, so in the process of fixing the list formatting and making an edit note I didn't actually fix the text. Time for a nap.


It has nothing to do with nuclear reactors, that is correct.

It has to do with production of fissile material for nuclear bombs being developed by a psychotic islamic fundamentalist state run by a madman.

If someone is writing viruses to destroy clean energy from modern nuclear reactors, that is a bad virus.

But if they are writing viruses to stop radical fundamentalists from building The Bomb, well that is OK by me.


And the uranium is use for? (weapons aside)


I believe the point is that "to damage nuclear reactors" conjures a far different (and more explosive) mental image than "to damage nuclear enrichment facilities", even if the economic impact is the same.


The post he was replying to said

2. The payload it uses to damage nuclear reactors

He was pointing out that it doesn't directly damage them.




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