[wbarmy]

This is no mere hiccup. If the virus actually attacked the controls for the motors, they could have caused massive internal damage to the motors. In the US, computerized lathes and other equipment have to be monitored to ensure there are no “runaway” events which destroy very sensitive equipment. Since these centrifuges are very sophisticated, I am sure that they were well and truly gnarled up.

The Iranians ability to replace, repair and reload these machines is probably very limited and will put a huge crimp in their plans.

As for Mossad, they might have got the virus in there, but I will bet money to donuts that the plan started over here and was financed and run by the USA.

And that OP started in the Bush administration.

[gandalftb]

First off, centrifuges to not have wired motors like a washing machine. The entire chamber sits in a needle and rotates because surrounding magnetic coils are consecutively energized.

The outside of the chamber rotates at over the speed of sound and the harmonics are easily monitored. Runaways are impossible because the power required is not available through the inverters. All vehicles can only go so fast. If they are tested for balance at maximum inverter power and run smoothly, that's it, they can be overdriven without the inverter popping a circuit due to over amperage.

It is time to let this line of media stories about Stuxnet just die.