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Engineer accused of taking codes to Iran
PHOENIX

The FBI says it has arrested a former engineer at the nation's largest nuclear power plant and charged him with violating the trade embargo with Iran.

Mohammad Alavi allegedly took computer access codes and software to Iran and used them to download details of plant control rooms and reactors. He's a US citizen and denies any wrongdoing. The FBI says there's no indication he had any terrorist connections.

Alavi worked at the Palo Verde power plant west of Phoenix and was arrested April Ninth at Los Angeles International Airport when he got back from Iran.He's charged with a single count of violating an embargo against exporting goods and services to Iran, and if convicted would face less than two years in prison.

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The FBI said there was no evidence to suggest the software access was linked to the Iranian government, which has clashed with the West over attempts to develop its own nuclear program.

"The investigation has not led us to believe this information was taken for the purpose of being used by a foreign government or terrorists to attack us," said Deborah McCarley, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Phoenix.

Officials of Arizona Public Service Co., the Phoenix-based utility company that operates the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station, said the software does not pose a security risk because it doesn't control any of the nuclear plant's operating systems.

However, the utility said it has changed software security procedures since Alavi quit in August after working there for 16 years.

Palo Verde has been plagued by outages and equipment problems for the past several years.
The plant, located about 50 miles west of downtown Phoenix, supplies electricity to some 4 million customers in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California.


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