CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The outdoor warning sirens around the Catawba and McGuire nuclear stations will be tested between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
- Full-volume, three-minute test scheduled between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Wednesday, October 9
- No public action required
The 89 sirens within 10 miles of Catawba Nuclear Station, located in York County, S.C., and the 67 sirens within 10 miles of McGuire Nuclear Station, located in Huntersville, N.C., will sound for three minutes. To ensure they are functioning properly, it may be necessary to test some sirens more than once. Follow-up testing after siren maintenance may be required after 1 p.m.
Testing is performed in cooperation with emergency management officials in Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina, and York County in South Carolina, who are responsible for sounding the sirens.
Because this is a test, local broadcasting stations will not interrupt regular programming to broadcast Emergency Alert System (EAS) messages. If there was ever a realemergency at the plant requiring the sirens to be sounded, local radio and televisionstations would broadcast information and instructions to the public.
For more information about the outdoor warning sirens, residents can refer to information available at duke-energy.com/NuclearEP.
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Duke Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 20,700 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 2.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across a 24,000-square-mile service area in North Carolina and South Carolina.
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