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1,000 of Iran’s uranium plant centrifuges knocked out by Stuxnet worm?

Stuxnet might have damaged 1,000 centrifuges in Natanz, 30 Dec 10, “………The Stuxnet virus which has contaminated Iran’s nuclear setting up might have been at the back of the decommissioning of the 1,000 centrifuges in the Natanz uranium fortification facility earlier the year, according to the new study of the malevolent software.
Set by the Washington foundation “Institute For Science And International Security”, this paper hoist the option that the reported fracture of the 1,000 centrifuges was reason by this virus.

In accordance with this paper, the moment of the taking away of the 1,000 centrifuges was reliable with a statement finished last month via “Ali Akbar Salehi”, the then-head of the Iran’s “Atomic Energy Organization” as well as recently selected as the country’s overseas minister, who long-established in an meeting: “One year as well as several months before, Westerners drive a virus toward [our] country’s nuclear location

There are at present just about 10,000 IR-1 centrifuges set up in the interior of the Natanz uranium enhancement plant, according to this report.

Stuxnet might have damaged 1,000 centrifuges in Natanz

December 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iraq, technology, Uranium