An investigation into a false alarm about the Pickering nuclear station during routine testing of Ontario’s province-wide alert system is being conducted and will be made public, says Ontario’s Solicitor General Sylvia Jones. “I do not anticipate that this will be a long, drawn-out investigation,” she said, adding the findings from emergency management officials will be shared with Ontarians. Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy, the local MPP for the area, emphasized the Pickering station has a good safety record and moved to assure Ontarians there was never any danger to the public. The first alert said it applied to people living within 10 kilometres of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, which is five kilometres from Toronto’s eastern edge on the north shore of Lake Ontario. “This is a public safety matter,” Hunter wrote in a letter to Dubé.

Source: thestar January 13, 2020 17:37 UTC