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"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-05-18

The U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.

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Re: Re: Re: Why Windows? 2007-05-24
Anonymous
Very true, error handling is critical in any real time system, but I could not imagine using a standard non-RT OS (windows, unix, or any other "consumer" OS)for regulating a nuclear system. This was a PLC, not a do-it-all modified "Windows for Nuclear Reactors". I would think they are using an engin...

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