Duke Energy’s Brunswick Nuclear Plant officials announced this week that they plan to test the outdoor warning sirens on Wednesday morning.
The quarterly test is scheduled to be conducted between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
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All 38 sirens within 10 miles of the plant outside of Southport will sound at full-volume between 5 and 30 seconds.
Some sirens may need to be tested more than once to ensure they are functioning properly and and follow-up testing post siren maintenance may be required after 11 a.m.
Officials with Brunswick and New Hanover counties, who are responsible for sounding the sirens, cooperate in the testing.
Routine siren testing does not include interruption of regular programming to broadcast Emergency Alert System, or EAS, messages.
In the event of a real emergency at the plant when sirens would be sounded, information and instructions would be broadcast to the public through local radio and television stations.
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Additional information about the outdoor warning sirens is available at duke-energy.com/NuclearEP.
