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Accused Nuke Engineer: I Was Showing Off




Topic started on 18-5-2007 @ 03:37 PM by Keyhole


Accused Nuke Engineer: I Was Showing Off


news.yahoo.com

Alavi worked at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix for 16 years, until he resigned in August and moved to Tehran.

The software he downloaded onto his personal laptop was part of an emergency-training package containing details of the plant's control rooms, reactors and designs. It is not classified, has no links to actual plant workings and can't be used to affect operations.

Employees were encouraged to download the software and work on it at home, according to officials with the Arizona Public Service Co., the Phoenix-based utility company that operates Palo Verde.

APS did not know Alavi had left the country with the information until the Maryland software manufacturer reported attempts to access the training system from a Tehran address.

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reply posted on 18-5-2007 @ 03:37 PM by Keyhole


This man obviously must be a pretty intelligent man to be a nuclear engineer. I can't see how an intelligent person would do something like this to "impress friends and family in Tehran."

The plans contained "details of the plant's control rooms, reactors and designs", I can't see how they can claim these plans are "not classified, and has no links to actual plant workings and can't be used to affect operations." These are plans to the largest nuclear power plant in the US. I'm sure a terrorist could gain some sort of knowledge from these plans!

I think the government is actually trying to cover this up by saying this information wasn't classified to avoid embarrassment. Otherwise,why would they arrest this guy for passing non-classified information





news.yahoo.com
(visit the link for the full news article)



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reply posted on 18-5-2007 @ 07:55 PM by RedGolem


Maby there was something classified, maby there was not.
But from what I read on the link if nothing else I definitely do think the whole situation is be down played.
Even if no harm was intended, which cold be the case, I do think it showed poor judgment on the engineers part.



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