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Duke Vitality and county officers to check sirens round Brunswick Nuclear Plant

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Full-volume, 3-minute take a look at scheduled between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 11
No public motion required

SOUTHPORT, N.C. – The out of doors warning sirens across the Brunswick Nuclear Plant might be examined between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 11.

The 38 sirens inside 10 miles of the Brunswick Nuclear Plant will sound at full-volume for 3 minutes. To make sure they’re functioning correctly, it might be crucial to check some sirens greater than as soon as. Testing is carried out in cooperation with emergency officers in Brunswick and New Hanover counties, who’re accountable for sounding the sirens.

As a result of it is a take a look at, native broadcasting stations is not going to interrupt common programming to broadcast Emergency Alert System (EAS) messages. If there was ever an actual emergency on the plant requiring the sirens to be sounded, native radio and tv stations would broadcast data and directions to the general public.

For extra details about the out of doors warning sirens, residents can check with data accessible at duke-energy.com/NuclearEP.

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Duke Vitality Progress, a subsidiary of Duke Vitality, owns nuclear, coal, pure fuel, renewables and hydroelectric era. That various gas combine offers about 12,700 megawatts of owned electrical capability to roughly 1.6 million clients in a 32,000-square-mile service space of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Duke Vitality (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 firm headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one in all America’s largest power holding firms. Its electrical utilities serve 8.2 million clients in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively personal 50,000 megawatts of power capability. Its pure fuel unit serves 1.6 million clients in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The corporate employs 27,600 folks.

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