Crews respond to ‘incident’ at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
The Ontario government says there has been some sort of “incident” at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, prompting them to send a mass mobile alert to people as far away as Toronto.
The province said an incident was reported at the station, off of Montgomery Park Road in Pickering, sometime on Sunday and emergency crews are at the power plant.
“There has been NO abnormal release of radioactivity from the station,” the alert read. “People near the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station DO NOT need to take any protective actions at this time.”
The power plant is run by Ontario Power Generation and has been in service since 1971. It is slated to be decommissioned in 2024.
The text of the alert said it applied to those within 10 kilometres of the station but cell phone users in Ottawa, near Windsor and north of the GTA told CP24 they received the alert.
A spokesperson for OPG told CP24 he had no additional information to provide.
Durham Regional Police also said they had no information to provide.
The Pickering Fire Department said it was not called to the plant and did not know why the alert was issued.
The Ontario government says there has been some sort of “incident” at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, prompting them to send a mass mobile alert to people as far away as Toronto.
The province said an incident was reported at the station, off of Montgomery Park Road in Pickering, sometime on Sunday and emergency crews are at the power plant.
“There has been NO abnormal release of radioactivity from the station,” the alert read. “People near the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station DO NOT need to take any protective actions at this time.”
The power plant is run by Ontario Power Generation and has been in service since 1971. It is slated to be decommissioned in 2024.
The text of the alert said it applied to those within 10 kilometres of the station but cell phone users in Ottawa, near Windsor and north of the GTA told CP24 they received the alert.
A spokesperson for OPG told CP24 he had no additional information to provide.
Durham Regional Police also said they had no information to provide.
The Pickering Fire Department said it was not called to the plant and did not know why the alert was issued.