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.

Scientists Exposed To Uranium Particles At The National Criticality Experiments Research Center In 2014

       I recently wrote a post about problems at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The LANL is not the only national laboratory with a poor record for safety. Other national labs transgressions have also been reported by government inspectors.

Nuclear Reactors 285 - Sanctions on Qatar May Destabilize The World Helium Market And Lead To Record Price Increases

       Helium is a chemical element with He for the symbol and it has an atomic number of two. It is next most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. About twenty four percent of the elemental mass of the universe is helium. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas.

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