An emergency alert sent to cellphones through the provincial emergency reporting system around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 12, 2020, was a "human error" sent during a routine training exercise, Ontario's solicitor general said.
Daily Mail: False alarm! Nuclear warning alert issued in Ontario over 'incident' at power station that caused 'terror' across the province was 'sent in error'
* Social media users on Sunday were sent into panic mode after they were notified of an 'incident' at a nuclear power plant near Toronto
* Pickering, a town on the bank of Lake Ontario, is a suburb which lies 25 miles northeast of Toronto
* Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is home to eight nuclear reactors - two of which have been shut down
* Ontario province sent out alert to local residents saying that there was 'no abnormal release of radioactivity from the station'
* A state-owned electric company then sent out another message saying the earlier alert was a false alarm
* Pickering, one of the largest nuclear generating stations in the world, produces 14 per cent of electricity for Ontario's 14.57 million residents
Millions of Canadians in the country's most populated province were briefly panicked on Sunday morning after an alert reporting an unspecified 'incident' at one of its largest nuclear plants was sent in error.
The initial message said the incident had occurred at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, though it added there had been no abnormal release of radioactivity from the station.
Ontario Power Generation later sent a message saying the alert 'was sent in error. There is no danger to the public or environment.'
The reaction on social media to Sunday's false alarm was fierce, with Twitter users blaming the authorities for inducing panic.
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WNU Editor: The GF lives in Kingston and she got the alert this morning. My phones are from the Montreal area code and I did not. We were not amused.
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False alert about Pickering nuclear plant caused widespread alarm, but some residents 'not worried' -- CBC News
Province apologizes for Pickering nuclear plant false alarm, says cellphone alert was ‘human error’ during training -- Toronto Star
Canadian Province Retracts Warning of Nuclear Power Incident -- US News and World Report/AP
Canada province says sorry after training mistake sparks false nuclear alert -- Reuters
Canadians got an emergency alert about a nuclear power plant incident. It was sent in error, the plant says -- CNN
Pickering nuclear station 'incident' that triggered mass emergency alert in Canada was sent in error -- FOX News
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