Ontario residents within a 10 kilometre radius of Toronto were warned of an unspecified nuclear accident at 7:30 a.m.
An alert warning Ontario residents of an incident at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station early Sunday morning was sent in error, Ontario Power Generation said.
— Ontario Power Gen January 12, 2020Premier Doug Ford’s office said it was working to figure out what happened.“Like many of you, I was very troubled to have received that emergency alert this morning. While I am relieved that there was no actual emergency, I am upset that an error such as this occurred. I have spoken to the province, and am demanding that a full investigation take place,” Ryan said in a tweet.
Ontario doesn’t have a co-ordinated IT system for emergency management, the auditor wrote. The province tried to implement one in 2009, but discontinued the project six years later, “having spent about $7.5 million without it ever going live.” — Mayor Cam Guthrie January 12, 2020The original alert warned people within 10 kilometres of the facility east of Toronto of an unspecified incident. There was no abnormal release of radioactivity and people near the plant didn’t need to take protective actions, the alert said.
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