Nuclear power station incident in Ontario Canada

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4 points·lightwin··6 comments

False alarm.

It will be interesting to see the repercussions of this. A lot of people woke up to ~2 hours of what was probably quite frightening. Anyone nervous of living in the area is probably considerably more so now.

They probably scared lots of people and people might take any potential future alerts less seriously. Hope you heard of a boy who was crying wolf.

People already got angry about receiving Amber Alerts for children on the opposite side of the city. And there were all kinds of technical issues -- sometimes even people's phones crashing -- when they were first testing this capability.

Adding erroneous nuclear alerts into the experience isn't going to make people feel very secure about the service or their neighbourhoods. People will just change their alert sound to silence, or something that won't wake them up even in the case of a real emergency (that boy who cried wolf you mention). Then it expensively helps no one.

Honestly we dont know if something is going on behind the scenes. What was someone trying to do by creating and sending this alert in early morning? :o

My hope is that it was a test they do every morning. But who knows.

Having said that, a test that could result in shutdown.... Sunday at 730AM is an okay time for capacity to go offline.

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