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Prominent private equity investment firm Blackstone has agreed to acquire the 774-MW Potomac Energy Center—a natural gas power plant located in Virginia’s “Data Center Alley”—in a deal reportedly valued at […]
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A 7.3-magnitude earthquake caused some deficiencies at two of the three nuclear power plants (NPPs) located in relatively close proximity to the fault, but it did not cause any safety concerns, according to Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).
The quake struck about 60 kilometers off the coast of Japan on March 16 at 2:36 p.m. UTC. The NPPs affected include the Fukushima Daiichi facility, site of the infamous nuclear disaster in February 2011. Other potentially vulnerable facilities were the Fukushima Daiini and Onagawa nuclear power stations.
At the Daiichi site, hundreds of seismically qualified tanks store treated water from the 2011 accident. The force of the quake reportedly moved some of these tanks up to 10 centimeters, but there was no leakage, according to the NRA. Also at the Daiichi site, a cooling pump for the Unit 5 reactor’s spent fuel pool temporarily stopped working, but later resumed operation and cooling functions at the site have been maintained, the regulator said.…
Cybersecurity firm FireEye has uncovered and is responding to a new intrusion at an unnamed critical infrastructure facility that it suggests in an April 10 blog post was perpetrated by the group behind the TRITON attack, which prompted a process shutdown at a Middle Eastern facility in 2017.
But while details of the new attack are sparse, according to Joe Slowik, an adversary hunter at industrial control systems (ICS) security firm Dragos, the attack by the cyberthreat activity group it calls “XENOTIME,” does not involve TRITON—which also known as TRISIS.
“All available evidence at this time indicates that XENOTIME has not deployed either TRITON/TRISIS or any new ICS-disruptive malware in any environment, a statement that is also implicitly made in FireEye’s reporting,” he told POWER on April 10.
Slowik’s analyses addresses speculation that a second TRITON attack had occurred, as had been widely suggested by experts and reported by POWER in a previous version of this story. Slowik, however, confirmed FireEye’s claim. …