![]() ![]() The UK government is trying to persuade business to help defend against potential cyber attacks from Russia because it only controls three of 13 elements of critical infrastructure, says defence and security analyst Michael Clarke.ĭiscussing the intervention by Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden at the CyberUK conference in Belfast (see post at 1.22pm), Clarke told Sky News: "He is trying to bring in the whole of British society to awareness of the cyber threat because some cyber threats are towards the government but many of them are towards private industry - and we know there's a lot of them out there. It was not clear if Rosatom responded to the letter dated 17 March. Rosatom manages the plant, though it is still physically operated by Ukrainian staff.Īccording to the letter seen by CNN, the US energy department warned Rosatom that it is "unlawful" for any Russian citizens or entities to handle the US technology. Moscow has rejected calls for a demilitarised zone around the site. It has been repeatedly cut off from the power grid due to shelling and there are fears over the risk of a disastrous nuclear accident. The nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine - the biggest in Europe - was captured by Russian troops in the early days of the war. Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant contains US-origin technology which Russia is being warned not to interfere with, according to a report.ĬNN is reporting the warning came in a letter from the US energy department to Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom last month.Īndrea Ferkile, the head of the department's office of nonproliferation policy, told Rosatom's director general that the plant "contains US-origin nuclear technical data that is export-controlled by the United States government".
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