Vague fears about the inherent safety of anything with “nuclear” in the name always keeps them a high-priority security target, as well as a priority for militant groups. But has anyone ever tried to do anything with such a plant? The IAEA today suggested they might’ve.
Director Amano Yukiya today reported that there was a “cyber attack” against an unnamed nuclear power plant in the last two or three years. The attack “disrupted” some unspecific operations, but didn’t force anything to shut down outright.
Amano also revealed that about four years ago, someone at some other nuclear facility tried to steal some highly-enriched uranium, which might’ve been enough to build a dirty bomb of some sort, adding it was “not an imaginary risk.”
Other security experts cited theoretical threats of “insider attacks” within the nuclear plants, though industry experts insisted that even such an infiltrator would likely be unable to do massive amounts of damage to a nuclear reactor.
Why is the plant so assiduously NOT identified? Was it American? NO, had it been American it would have been instantly identified as such, and just as instantly would Russia have been blamed. Was it Iranian? Probably. (Almost certainly!?) Why? Because had it been Iranian, the question which must immediately and inevitably follow would be, “Who done it?” And we can all guess — with an almost 100% certainty of being right — that the answer would be either Israel or the US, or even more likely, the two of them working together.
Interesting times.
If anyone can help here with an alternate plausible explanation for not identifying the nuke plant in question? Let me start it off. Maybe it was an American nuke plant and the US Govt wants to protect the American people from unnecessary fearfullness, while at the same time avoiding any accusations that they are failing in their duty to protect.
Anyone else?