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A new report by Reza Kahlili at WorldNetDaily (WND) raises the speculative possibility of whether Stuxnet might have triggered the alleged explosion at the Iranian underground enrichment facility at Fordow that allegedly occurred on January 21st, “Iran nuke-site blasts confirmed, sabotage suspected”. If that was possible was it the older version, Stuxnet 0.5 rather than a later version. Moreover, was it an act of possible sabotage and what stage in the enrichment process could have produced such a massive explosion? If Stuxnet was involved in the explosions at Fordow might it have been Version 0.5 recently discovered by the anti-virus firm Symantec. A Security Affairs report, citing the Symantec analysis, noted the important differences between the earlier Version of Stuxnet and later ones. The most important change between the two versions was the strategy of attack of the different versions, earlier Stuxnet had the ability to shut critical gas valves potentially causing an explosion later version replaced this capability with the one to alter the speed of centrifuges, anyway Stuxnet significantly increased in time its spreading capabilities introducing exploits for various vulnerabilities. As to what might have caused explosions at the Fordow enrichment facility we asked Dr. Frederick Leder, an energy industry expert familiar with the uranium enrichment proceess. He noted: Hydrogen is used in the process of converting uranium ore (yellow cake) to uranium hexafluoride. On the assumption that this conversion is done at Fordow, he speculates that the explosion might have been hydrogen released into the work space, either by accident or sabotage, reacting with the air in the facility. The mystery about Fordow persists. We await independent information as to whether the Stuxnet malworm sabotage or an industrial accident may have triggered a release of hydrogen causing the explosion at the underground enrichment facility.