VIRUS ATTACK ON KUDANKULAM UNIT CALLS FOR DEEP PROBE
Sankar Ray
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2020-01-15 17:09
The October 2019 cyber attack on a computer system at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant that has two Russian Pressurised Water Reactors at Kudankulam in Tirunelvelli district, Tamil Nadu, by Dtrack virus paved ‘new pathways to severe accidents that can result in widespread radioactive fallout. Attempts to lower this risk would further increase the cost of nuclear power’, according to M V Ramana, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and director, Liu Institute for Global Issues, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia and Lauren J. Borja, postdoctoral research fellow MacArthur Nuclear Security Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, University of Stanford, USA. The two nuclear reactors were connected to the electric grid in October 2013 and August 2016 and hence the danger of collapse and destruction of a large segment of national power transmission and distribution network looms large.