LACEY – Oyster Creek’s semi-annual siren test will happen around noon Dec. 4.
The full-volume test of its emergency warning sirens will last three minutes.
This is one of two tests per year, which happen in June and December.
Even though Oyster Creek ceased its operations earlier this year, the siren system must stay in place according to government emergency planning requirements.
The warning system consists of 42 sirens within a 10-mile radius of the generating station. The sirens aren’t a call for evacuation, but a warning tune to a local Emergency Alert Broadcast television or radio station. The sirens are activated by county emergency management.
