Nuclear Reactors 286 - Cyberwarfare Poses Unacceptable Danger To U.S. Infrastructure Including Nuclear Power Plants
In 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm was discovered in the centrifuge control systems in Iran’s nuclear program. It did a great deal of damage to the infected systems. It was designed to influence control systems for industrial equipment. Among other things, it caused some of the centrifuges to spin so fast that they were destroyed.