Canada nuclear plant: Alert about incident sent in error

[bing101]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51084859
A Nuclear warning was released in Canada  Yesterday. Subsequently this was later to be revealed to be a false alarm

An emergency alert about an incident at a nuclear power plant in southern Canada was sent to mobile phones by mistake, officials say.
The warning said staff were responding to an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station east of Toronto.
A second alert was sent out almost two hours later saying the initial message had been a mistake. It was not clear what caused the error.
Pickering Mayor Dave Ryan said he was "demanding a full investigation".
The first message, sent province-wide, was sent out at around 07:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on Sunday, and alerted people who were within 10km (six miles) of the facility. The warning was generated by the Ontario government's Provincial Emergency Operations Centre.

[mgk920]

Oops, eh?



Mike

[bing101]

Oops, eh?



Mike

Yes it reminds me of the Hawaii Nuclear alert 2 years ago.

[wxfree]

Nucular, it's pronounced "nucular."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoASZyihalc

[wxfree]

Oops, eh?



Mike

When a name was to be come up with for the land now known as Canada, it was decided that it should be three initials, like the U. S. A.  They decided to draw three letters randomly.  The person drew the first letter, and it was C.  He said "C, eh?"  Then he drew N, and said "N, eh?"  Then he drew D, and said "D, eh?"  The records from that meeting were unclear and the results were misinterpreted, leading to the adoption of "Canada" as the name.