Crime & Safety
Sirens At Peach Bottom To Sound Wednesday
The nuclear power plant on the Susquehanna River will conduct a test Wednesday afternoon.
Sirens will sound Wednesday as part of a test at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station.
The test will start at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7, and last for three minutes, according to Exelon, which operates the facility.
The nuclear power station tests its sirens biannually, once in June and again in December.
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The alert system includes 97 outdoor sirens installed in a 10-mile warning zone around Peach Bottom's campus along the Susquehanna River.
Under non-test circumstances, the sirens would go off to signal to citizens that they should listen to an Emergency Alert Broadcast Station to get information from state authorities.
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