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A nuclear power plant in Germany is packed with computer viruses, but since they don’t pose a threat to the facility’s operations they are all ignored.

The Gundremmingen plant, located about 120 km northwest of Munich, is run by the German utility RWE which is not too worried becasue the plant is not connected to the internet.

The viruses, which include “W32.Ramnit” and “Conficker”, were discovered at Gundremmingen’s B unit in a computer system retrofitted in 2008 with data visualization software associated with equipment for moving nuclear fuel rods, RWE said.

Malware was also found on 18 removable data drives, mainly USB sticks, in office computers maintained separately from the plant’s operating systems. RWE said it has increased cyber security measures.

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