ACCIDENTAL SHUTDOWN AT NUCLEAR STATION

  If your laptop lets you think twice before it shuts down, should a nuclear reactor not do the same?

Canadian nuclear safety officials have been dealing with a split-second mistake that shut down a reactor at the Pickering nuclear station east of Toronto.

There was no radioactive leak, no injury, no damage to equipment. But there were red faces when someone pushed the wrong button, and a machine that can produce half a billion watts of electricity stopped.