MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Sirens in the Vermont Yankee's emergency
planning zone will sound this Tuesday - Wednesday is the rain date
- as part of a regular test of the emergency notification system
surrounding the Vernon reactor.
The test will sound all 37 sirens in the Vermont, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts towns surrounding the plant, including 16 new
sirens recently added to the system.
Residents in the area are sent emergency planning materials once
a year that advise them to tune to specific radio stations for
further instruction when hearing the sirens.
The sirens will generally sound for three minutes sometime
between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Extra testing will be conducted in
Chesterfield, N.H., to check the loudness of recently installed
sirens.