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The test will happen at approximately 10:30 a.m.. on Wednesday, March 23, with sirens being sounded at full volume, which is expected to be heard in parts of Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam counties.
Sirens are expected to sound through approximately 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning in the Hudson Valley
Officials noted that, because this is a test, the public is not required to respond when they hear the siren.
“This sounding is only a test,” officials posted online. “The siren sounding is ONLY A TEST. No action by the public is necessary.”
Indian Point site includes three power reactors, two spent fuel pools, various support facilities and infrastructure, generators, transformers, radioactive spent nuclear fuel, petroleum storage facilities, waste storage facilities, water intake, outflow facilities and structures, and piers.
Indian Point is no longer producing electricity after operating from 1962 through earlier this year.
Unit 1 was permanently shut down in 1974. Unit 2 stopped producing electricity on April 30, 2020, and Unit 3 was shut down last year.
Units 2 and 3 averaged approximately 17 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year, or about 25 percent of the power used annually in Westchester and New York City, according to a spokesperson.
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