Japan's nuke reactors being hit by Stuxnet as well as HAARP earthquake?

[wouldntyouliketoknow]

KYODO: Cooling system pump at Tokai No. 2 stops working...developing...

[Optimus]

Cooling system pump stops at Tokai No.2 plant: report
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/13/us-japan-quake-tokai-idUSTRE72C2RH20110313

(Reuters) - The cooling system pump has stopped at the Tokai No.2 nuclear power plant in Japan's Ibaraki prefecture, Kyodo news reported, in the wake of the massive earthquake that has crippled other reactors in the country.

The plant, located about 120 km (75 miles) north of Tokyo, had suffered a nuclear accident in 1999.

[pac522]

Maybe Secretary of Defense, Mr. Cohen, needs to be indicted for crimes against humanity!

Well he Hopi believe we can tempt fate and reverse our pre-premonitioned future by not letting corrupt and evil men prosper.

[feeditup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBLPCB049Mg&feature=player_embedded#at=36

[jofortruth]

This is incredible information.  What is the name of the governor's brother and the name of the book mentioning McVey?

Do they get their ideas from our media, or vice-versa?

Love, e

I believe it was Keating?

http://z4.invisionfree.com/The_Great_Deception/index.php?showtopic=8375&st=0&#entry5356994

[Seroquel XR]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/122076/20110313/japan-shinmoedake-volcano-shinmoe-dake-erupted-erupts-ash-rock-earthquake-tsunami.htm

The Shinmoedake volcano in Japan's Kyushu has erupted two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami that left more than 10,000 people dead, reports said on Sunday. There was no confirmation on whether the eruption was related to Friday's quake.

The volcano, which was dormant for several weeks after erupting on January 19, began spewing ash and rock on Sunday, Japan's meteorological agency said. The agency did not specify if the new eruption was related to the quake.

[jofortruth]

I can't remember, but I know it's mentioned in Road to Tyranny.

http://z4.invisionfree.com/The_Great_Deception/index.php?showtopic=8375&st=0#entry5356994

[shipgeek]

Japan tsunami survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa found 10 miles out at sea

A 60-year-old man has been found on the roof of his floating house nearly 10 miles out at sea, two days after the tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan.
Hiromitsu Shinkawa must have resigned himself to his fate when he was swept away by the retreating tsunami that roared ashore in his home town of Minami Soma in Fukushima prefecture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/13/japan-tsunami-survivor-shinkawa-rescued-fukushima?CMP=twt_gu

[Optimus]

Tracking Page: Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown, Aftershocks & Fallout

http://www.infowars.com/tracking-page-japans-nuclear-meltdown-aftershocks-fallout/

Infowars
March 13, 2011

Following Japan’s nuclear plant emergency, this page will continue to monitor the ongoing situation, and will include added content as we know more.

[wouldntyouliketoknow]

Zero Hedge

IAEA Refutes Reactor 3 Cooling Problems, Provides Fukushima Status Update; Credibility Schism Developing In Japan
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/12/2011 20:56 -0500

Contrary to earlier reports that cooling at Reactor 3 at Fukushima has failed (as per CNN and Reuters) and there is now a state of emergency for three reactors at the site, the IAEA has released a report refuting these rumors. It appears that there is a split in news reporting in Japan: on one hand we have the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency which seems to present a downside case, while the government is obviously spinning news in a favorable direction. While the Japanese government is likely not to be trusted much with truthful data dissemination, jumping the shark on rumor spreading is probably not in anyone's favor either. That said, with the government losing credibility (see prior Stratfor post), the question is just whom can the public trust, if not the Japanese government and media? Furthermore, if there is another accident at Fukushima, and the government's credibility is completely destroyed, what happens next: after all the BoJ needs as much "market faith" as it can muster ahead of its decision on Monday to flood the money markets with JPY2 trillion (sound familiar). If the government eats up all the street cred of Shirakawa, the BOJ rush to action may end up doing far more bad than good.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/iaea-refutes-reactor-3-cooling-problems-provdes-fukushima-status-update

[SUPREMEMASTER]

Don't know if this map is legit or not.


Nuclear Fallout Map
http://atomicnewsreview.org/2011/03/12/nuclear-fallout-map/

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/438/fallout.jpg

http://atomicnewsreview.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fallout.gif



Um... WTF?

EDIT: Seriously, wtf is going on here?!

[FreeinTX]

As a former US NAVY Nuc (EO) and former US NAVY OC, I can tell you that Japan is officially F-CK-D!

If they are using seawater to cool the core, that is major!  Reactors use what they call "pure water" to cool the core.  It is Ph balanced and filtered clean water that is used to resist corrosion in the primary cooling system because even the slightest corrosion repairs are a major undertaking, given the irradiated environment.

Seawater contains salt and iodine.  Salt plus heat, extreme heat, equal hard core corrosion at extremely rapid rates.  If they put salt water in the core, they have no hope, no intention of EVER using that core again, for any reason.  The moment the salt water went through that core the first time, that core was totally ruined.

More importantly, the iodine.  Iodine become very radioactive and stays that way for a very, very long time, and a direct threat to anyone in even the most remote vacinity of it, as it can accumulate in the thyroid, and irradiate you to death over time!  If they pushed salt water, seawater, through that core, every drop of that water is a contamination nightmare, and loaded up with some of the worst radioactive materials known to man.

Let's re-count.  By pouring salt water into the core, they destroy the core, and create a radioactve nightmare with the water that flows through it.  That being said, the ONLY reason you would flow seawater through the primary side of your nuc plant is if you had no other choice to prevent a full scale melt down!!!  Follow?

The fact that they did have to flow seawater through the core meant that there is a leak in the primary that is greater than their ability to add make-up pure water. Depending on the location of the leak, they will have various options, but none of them are promising, and the mess they are making to prevent a meltdown is getting worse by the gallon of seawater being pumped into that core and becoming irradiated.  Worst case scenario is that the leak is on the core side of the main core shutoff valves, but regardless, many people are going to die, trying to fix this!

If 1 goes, they ALL go!  Who the hell is going to stick around a major nuclear disaster to keep the other 5 plants cool?  And what good will it do, when the radiation destroys the electical systems that support the cooling pumps for the other 5 reactors?  Even if the rooms of the other 5 reactors keep the radiation of core 1 out, core 1's radiation will destroy the electric circuits outside the building, and the lack of personel will cause a minor problem to become another meltdown and breech.

They are evacuating 170,000 people within 12 miles of the reactor.  They need to be evacuating anyone withing 100 miles of the reactor, and even then the death toll and future deformation toll will be huge!  GET OUT OF JAPAN!!!

[FreeinTX]

Um... WTF?

EDIT: Seriously, wtf is going on here?!

I don't think those numbers look right!  A bit high.

A RAD is a measure of radiation intensity, and 1 REM of radiation is the measure of 1 RAD of radiation taken on the human body.

Loosely translated, 1 RAD=1 REM.   The NRC puts 1.5 REM (may have changed) or 1500 millirem, as the annual limit of occupational radiation exposure, with local limits usually around 500 millirem.

I would go back and look at the Chyrnobel maps, see how the radiation dispersed and use real time wind predictions to translate the old maps to the new crisis.  As each core breeches, multiply the radiation levels.  Ie if all 6 breech, chyrnobel times 6.

That map, if true, would make it a rolling death cloud where everyone would be instantly dead or very, very dying the moment they were hit by it.

1 RAD of exposure in a short amount of time can be deadly, 700 RADS, it would seem, would drop you dead pretty quick.

[Optimus]

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Today is Sunday, March 13, 2011

Japanese Earthquake

SPECIAL REPORT TRACKING JAPAN'S NUCLEAR PLANT MELTDOWN - In this Sunday edition, Alex brings you live updates on the emergency in Japan following the meltdown of one of its nuclear power plants and the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunamai. Infowars is tracking the aftershocks, the risk of further plant failures, the fallout, radiation safety information and the unfolding crisis the island nation is struggling to contain.

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http://rss.infowars.com/20110313_Sun_Alex.mp3

[One Revelator]

Um... WTF?

EDIT: Seriously, wtf is going on here?!

I believe 4chan was discussing that very map under /v/ about 23 hours ago...

Oops 404 not found.  Imagine that.

[jofortruth]

what if some people are more sensitive to radiation than others? About getting to the Pacific North West.

A pilot navigator friend told me this in regard to how quick this could get to the US / Canada Western border if caught in jet stream:

"Well that depends where the jet stream is that day (it moves a fair bit) but lets say that it did get in to it then it is about 4800 miles from Vancouver to Tokyo (West coast) and the jet varies in speed say 90 to 110 mph, so like maybe 50 hours at the quickest.. but if just using prevailing winds say 3-4 times that duration.. still not that very long."

[EvadingGrid]

Let's re-count.  By pouring salt water into the core, they destroy the core, and create a radioactve nightmare with the water that flows through it.  That being said, the ONLY reason you would flow seawater through the primary side of your nuc plant is if you had no other choice to prevent a full scale melt down!!!  Follow?

Yup, its a desperate measure to cool the reactor.

I'm still shocked that its happening to a Japanese Reactor.
I'm still highly sceptical it was not SABOTAGE.

Now the identical reactors are OK, yet one goes rogue ?
That implies not a design fault...

It also implies not 'human error' as the shutdown is automatic.
To me that implies a COMPUTER FAULT.
Was it deliberately infected with a computer software nasty ?

All of these reactors are built from an identical design by General Electric.
Reactor No.1, 2, 6 supplied by General Electric
Reactor No.3 built by Toshiba

[Flur]

So then why did fallout from WWII not sweep across the U.S.?  I find those maps very unlikely

[Polaris]

pdf_muncher, you didn't understand the magnitude of sea water resort. The core being rendered useless isn't the issue, it's the huge amount of particles dispersed in the sea water that have affinity towards radiation. Once charged they become hazardous toxic waste that will be a threat for EONS to come. The areas it contaminates will be rendered wastelands harbouring mutants.

[Polaris]

So then why did fallout from WWII not sweep across the U.S.?  I find those maps very unlikely

We are looking at a scenario with 1000 times more radioactive material. Chernobyl released 400 times more than Hiroshima and the cloud did spread throughout continental Europe.

[EvadingGrid]

So then why did fallout from WWII not sweep across the U.S.?  I find those maps very unlikely

The fallout from WW2 was pathetic compared to the tests carried out by the US Govt, on US soil.

[EvadingGrid]

Millions Of Americans Will Not Be Killed By Nuclear Fallout In Two Weeks...
http://www.blogotariat.com/node/211958

Millions Of Americans Will Not Be Killed By Nuclear Fallout In Two Weeks, It's Just A Fake Map

By Darryl Mason

Australian Radiation Services finds itself inadvertently caught up in a fast spreading online hoax, following the unnerving explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, after yesterday's 8.9 earthquake and 10 metre tsunami.

The Nuclear Fallout Map is fake simply because Australian Radiation Services don't issue such maps. It was likely chosen before ARS offices are closed until Monday, as they are most weekends.

READ ENTIRE ARTICLE

[One Revelator]

As a former US NAVY Nuc (EO) and former US NAVY OC, I can tell you that Japan is officially F-CK-D!

If they are using seawater to cool the core, ...

Have you seen this? Looks like a pretty comprehensive analysis of those particular reactors.  Conclusions quoted here.  Full analysis/explanation at the link below.

·   The plant is safe now and will stay safe.

·   Japan is looking at an INES Level 4 Accident: Nuclear accident with local consequences. That is bad for the company that owns the  plant, but not for anyone else.

·   Some radiation was released when the pressure vessel was vented. All radioactive isotopes from the activated steam have gone (decayed). A very small amount of Cesium was released, as well as Iodine. If you were sitting on top of the plants’ chimney when they were venting, you should probably give up smoking to return to your former life expectancy. The Cesium and Iodine isotopes were carried out to the sea and will never be seen again.

·   There was some limited damage to the first containment. That means that some amounts of radioactive Cesium and Iodine will also be released into the cooling water, but no Uranium or other nasty stuff (the Uranium oxide does not “dissolve” in the water). There are facilities for treating the cooling water inside the third containment. The radioactive Cesium and Iodine will be removed there and eventually stored as radioactive waste in terminal storage.

·   The seawater used as cooling water will be activated to some degree. Because the control rods are fully inserted, the Uranium chain reaction is not happening. That means the “main” nuclear reaction is not happening, thus not contributing to the activation. The intermediate radioactive materials (Cesium and Iodine) are also almost gone at this stage, because the Uranium decay was stopped a long time ago. This further reduces the activation. The bottom line is that there will be some low level of activation of the seawater, which will also be removed by the treatment facilities.

·   The seawater will then be replaced over time with the “normal” cooling water

·   The reactor core will then be dismantled and transported to a processing facility, just like during a regular fuel change.

·   Fuel rods and the entire plant will be checked for potential damage. This will take about 4-5 years.

·   The safety systems on all Japanese plants will be upgraded to withstand a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami (or worse)

·   I believe the most significant problem will be a prolonged power shortage. About half of Japan’s nuclear reactors will probably have to be inspected, reducing the nation’s power generating capacity by 15%. This will probably be covered by running gas power plants that are usually only used for peak loads to cover some of the base load as well. That will increase your electricity bill, as well as lead to potential power shortages during peak demand, in Japan.

https://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/

[EvadingGrid]

BEWARE OF THE HOAX MAP

Check the source plz......
http://www.australian-radiation-services.com.au/

[Guns Equal Freedom]

Japan tsunami survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa found 10 miles out at sea

A 60-year-old man has been found on the roof of his floating house nearly 10 miles out at sea, two days after the tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan.
Hiromitsu Shinkawa must have resigned himself to his fate when he was swept away by the retreating tsunami that roared ashore in his home town of Minami Soma in Fukushima prefecture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/13/japan-tsunami-survivor-shinkawa-rescued-fukushima?CMP=twt_gu

It took not one, but two atomic bombs to stop the Japanese in World War 2. They can handle earthquake, aftershocks, tsunamis, volcanoes, ash clouds, nuclear bombs, nuclear fallout, and etc. They are tough.

[Flur]

We are looking at a scenario with 1000 times more radioactive material. Chernobyl released 400 times more than Hiroshima and the cloud did spread throughout continental Europe.

link/source for it being 1000x more than Hiroshima/Nagasaki?

[wouldntyouliketoknow]

A former adviser on radiation to the UK government, Dr Christopher Busby, has told the BBC the situation at the nuclear plants is extremely serious. "Particularly concerning is the [Fukushima] number three reactor which I understand is in trouble now, because... it runs on a different sort of fuel; it doesn't run on uranium, it runs on a mixed uranium plutonium fuel, and plutonium is an extremely serious hazard so if this stuff comes out then it's going to make what's happened so far, in terms of the tsunami damage, look a little bit like an entrée to the real course."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[FreeinTX]

Have you seen this? Looks like a pretty comprehensive analysis of those particular reactors.  Conclusions quoted here.  Full analysis/explanation at the link below.

That analysis is pretty optimistic, and doesn't quite bare out with the facts on the ground.

1.  There has been 190 people reported to have rad exposure sickness.
2.  A second reactor is have complications now.
3.  The evacuation has been expanded from 6 miles and 80,000 people to 12 miles and 170,000 people.

The facts on the ground seem to indicate the situation is becoming MORE alarming, not less.


Take a look at who this guy is.  

http://lean.mit.edu/about/lai-structure/faculty-researchers-and-staff/oehmen-josef
http://web.mit.edu/oehmen/www/

While his assessment may be factually viable, hypothetically possible, it would be the very best case scenario imaginable, and coming from a GLOBALIST mouthpeice like this guy, doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies!

[FreeinTX]

Yup, its a desperate measure to cool the reactor.

I'm still shocked that its happening to a Japanese Reactor.
I'm still highly sceptical it was not SABOTAGE.

Now the identical reactors are OK, yet one goes rogue ?
That implies not a design fault...

It also implies not 'human error' as the shutdown is automatic.
To me that implies a COMPUTER FAULT.
Was it deliberately infected with a computer software nasty ?

It looks far more like an Act of God, than an act of man, to me.

[FreeinTX]

A former adviser on radiation to the UK government, Dr Christopher Busby, has told the BBC the situation at the nuclear plants is extremely serious. "Particularly concerning is the [Fukushima] number three reactor which I understand is in trouble now, because... it runs on a different sort of fuel; it doesn't run on uranium, it runs on a mixed uranium plutonium fuel, and plutonium is an extremely serious hazard so if this stuff comes out then it's going to make what's happened so far, in terms of the tsunami damage, look a little bit like an entrée to the real course."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

If ANY of those cores breech, 20 years from now, you won't even know there was a tsunami, but rather we will only remember that a 8.9 earthquake caused the reactor plant incident.

[grapecrusher1]

Here is a panel of experts who are very concerned.

http://www.hastingsgroupmedia.com/031211Japannuclearmeltdownrisk.mp3

[FreeinTX]

Hey, I know, let's help the problem by sending 2 more nuclear reactors (USS Ronny Raygun) to the scene!

[ekimdrachir]

This is being called the worst disaster since WW2 for Japan. This canadian nuclear engineer who made it out has said that he's not going back, he's retiring, that it was an absolutely terrifying experience. He had felt all sorts of quakes but this was beyond any of them.

[Dig]

Yup, its a desperate measure to cool the reactor.

I'm still shocked that its happening to a Japanese Reactor.
I'm still highly sceptical it was not SABOTAGE.

Now the identical reactors are OK, yet one goes rogue ?
That implies not a design fault...

It also implies not 'human error' as the shutdown is automatic.
To me that implies a COMPUTER FAULT.
Was it deliberately infected with a computer software nasty ?

All of these reactors are built from an identical design by General Electric.
Reactor No.1, 2, 6 supplied by General Electric
Reactor No.3 built by Toshiba

This looks like 100% sabotage to me using STUXNET type software, or even improper data generation (false data inputs) to cause engineers to put in protocols that the true data would not warrant.

Tsunamis do not cause nuclear reactor meltdowns.

[FreeinTX]

This is being called the worst disaster since WW2 for Japan. This canadian nuclear engineer who made it out has said that he's not going back, he's retiring, that it was an absolutely terrifying experience. He had felt all sorts of quakes but this was beyond any of them.

I have a sense of how he feels.  I cannot believe the media is downplaying this so much.  I guess they figure, "How do you evacutate an entire country?"  and lacking a solution, decide it's just better to lie.  This has major implications.  Japan is the world 4th largest economy.  Not any more!  They are about to be 3rd world, real quick.  There has been an MIT guy post an article, giving an opinion that is fairly optimistic, but given his credentials, and his background, I just can't believe that this is going to end well at all for the Japanese.

[Dig]

Defending Against the Next Stuxnet
http://www.automationworld.com/feature-7618
October 2010 (p.26)
Written by Wes Iversen, Managing Editor
           
 Experts agree that defense in depth is the best approach to guard against future cyber attacks targeting industrial control system networks. Here's a look at two emerging technologies that may provide added tools for defense-in-depth strategies.

The controls security community was rocked this summer by the discovery of the Stuxnet worm, the first known malware designed specifically to target an industrial control system (ICS). And now that one such worm has been found in the wild, many believe that others are certain to emerge.

“Someone has proven the concept that you can launch a targeted attack on an industrial control system carrying a control-system-oriented payload, and not only have they demonstrated it in theory, but they’ve actually done it. So I think it’s almost inevitable that we’re going to see more of these,” observes Eric Cosman, an engineering solutions information technology (IT) consultant at The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., who serves as co-chair of the International Society of Automation’s ISA99 Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security committee.

While Stuxnet specifically targeted control systems supplied by Siemens, the German industrial giant, the worm gained access by exploiting a previously unknown Microsoft vulnerability. And experts warn that any vendor’s control systems could become targets in the future, particularly given the prevalence of Microsoft technologies throughout the ICS space.

More...

[FreeinTX]

This looks like 100% sabotage to me using STUXNET type software, or even improper data generation (false data inputs) to cause engineers to put in protocols that the true data would not warrant.

Tsunamis do not cause nuclear reactor meltdowns.

I disagree.  8.9 or 9.1, that is MASSIVE.  One of the most suspicious items in that Oherman article was the fact that he claimed the the Japanese will just start requiring their nuclear plants to standards that would hold against a 9.0 earthquake.  It's almost laughable, at the same time, I almost just drifted past it.  There is NO F-CK-N WAY that engineers are going to build major nuclear plants that will hold up against earthquakes that register 9.0.  NO WAY, NO HOW!  They are calling this the 5th largest ever recorded.  They say Japan raised up 8 feet (or inches, doesn't really matter), and the Earth's axis shifted 4 inches.  There isn't an engineering firm on the planet capable of producing a nuclear energy planet that will produce serious amounts of energy (electricity) AND be able to deal with movements like that.  This was an earthquake induced failure, and will likely set the globalists back fairly far if we can get on top of this!

[Optimus]

This looks like 100% sabotage to me using STUXNET type software, or even improper data generation (false data inputs) to cause engineers to put in protocols that the true data would not warrant.

Tsunamis do not cause nuclear reactor meltdowns.

Yup, the Japanese have tons of experience with earthquakes and tsunamis. They know how to design skyscrapers to withstand major earthquakes so they would also know how to build nuke plants to withstand being hit by tsunamis.

[FreeinTX]

Yup, the Japanese have tons of experience with earthquakes and tsunamis. They know how to design skyscrapers to withstand major earthquakes so they would also know how to build nuke plants to withstand being hit by tsunamis.

the tsunami didn't cause the damage at this reactor!  The 8.9-9.1 earthquake.  The 5th largest earthquake ever recorded.  And the Japanese could no more build a power plant to withstand that, then they could build a wall to hold back a 200' tidal wave.  Again, the Earth's axis shift 4 inches.  Can you see the power in that?  We are fleas on the dog!

[Dig]

Reactors 1,2, 6 were General Electric.

Can anyone find out if they were using General Electric's Intelligent Platforms bullshit crapola software which runs very similar SIEMENS operations, dependent on Windows files which STUXNET can completely control...

GEIP grabbing market share with sexy visuals of the entire enterprise (too bad the client side visuals may have nothing to do with what is really going on...

GEIP Challenges Rockwell and Wonderware
http://www.controlglobal.com/industrynews/2010/122.html
06/08/2010 By Andrew Bond, Industrial Automation Insider

GEIP Challenges Rockwell and Wonderware
Just how crowded the space between the plant floor and the enterprise level is becoming is indicated by last month's release of two new software applications from GE Intelligent Platforms (GEIP), the one offering 'out-of-the-box' integration of production systems with the enterprise, the other consolidation of disparate data from multiple sources into a single viewpoint. As such, they compete in the same space as, and appear to offer similar functionality to Invensys Operations Management (IOM)'s ArchestrA-based InFusion and Wonderware System Platform, SAP's Lighthammer and Rockwell's FactoryTalk and FactoryTalk VantagePoint, as InCuity is now called.

What that tends to suggest, despite claims from every vendor that their own system is a unique concept, is that these different offerings in what is variously called the MES or Operations Management space are rapidly converging and, dare one say it, becoming increasingly commoditized. Quite where that leaves such claims of competitive advantage as that from IOM CEO Sudipta Bhattacharya that "If someone wanted to launch or build similar products (to InFusion and ArchestrA), it would take them probably three to four years to get them to market" is clearly open to question.

Empowering Operators
Of the two new GEIP applications, arguably the most interesting is Proficy Pulse, described as a "new visualization software solution … which empowers operators, engineers and analysts to view, analyze and co-relate real-time operational situations and historical intelligence." Explaining the thinking behind the new software, GEIP automation software general manager Claire Cerrato said that today's operators need "to have access to as much operational information as they can get in the environment that they are most used to. Therefore, companies are looking for that 'ergonomic' HMI that presents operational data beyond the traditional HMI to analyze large volumes of data from many sources, making objective decisions based on complex, real-time information."

Another HMI?
Mention of Pulse as a real-time HMI will inevitably lead to speculation that, as well as its myriad other roles, it will also provide the vehicle for the eventual merging of GEIP's existing disparate HMI/SCADA applications, Proficy Cimplicity and Proficy iFIX. In the meantime, however, as a true OPC DA and OPC Alarms & Events client, it provides users with the ability to view and interact with real-time data from operational devices, HMI/SCADA systems and other software and to interface directly with native OPC servers like GEIP's own Industrial Gateway Server (IGS) and third-party OPC servers. Operators also have the ability to switch on the fly into Analysis mode with Proficy Historian and to integrate with the Proficy Workflow operational workflow product, Proficy Cause+ analysis tools and with operational KPIs defined in Proficy Plant Applications.
 
Designed as a scalable single application, multiple deployment product, Proficy Pulse can be deployed on embedded devices such as panels and tablets, on desktop PCs and on thin clients such as a Terminal Services client on bar codes or a Web client through the browser. It also comes with a totally integrated change management tool supporting application deployment, application versioning, disaster recovery and collaborative application development.

Meanwhile, the new enterprise integration tool, Proficy Open Enterprise 1.2, is built on top of Proficy SOA and Proficy Workflow and supports bi-directional messages to and from enterprise systems. Built on B2MML and ISA-95, it allows decision makers at the enterprise layer to have access to real-time information about production processes. "Proficy Open Enterprise helps users run 'Leaner' by providing information about the actual consumption of materials," said Operations Management Software general manager Sheila Kester. "Inventory reordering occurs when actually needed which can result in a significant cash savings."
GE Intelligent Platforms > Support >  KB > KB14079
STUXNET Worm & Microsoft Vulnerability Advisory 2286198
http://support.ge-ip.com/support/index?page=kbchannel&id=KB14079

Description
Microsoft Advisory 2286198 describes vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Shell. This vulnerability allows malicious actors to craft icons for .LNK files (shortcut links) such that when a user views a directory containing these links, the operating system can execute malicious code. The recently announced STUXNET worm is an example of malicious code that takes advantage of this vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in all Microsoft-supported operating systems (such as Windows 7), and in many if not all obsolete operating systems (such as Windows NT). While there is no known attack using this vulnerability to specifically attack GEIP software, we strongly recommend that users install Microsoft’s out-of-band patch (MS10-046) that repairs it. This patch exists for all supported Microsoft operating systems. For those customers who use obsolete operating systems, we recommend that they upgrade to a supported Microsoft operating system.