Entergy To Add More Sirens to Failed System

Entergy has announced plans to add new sirens to their failed Emergency Notification Sirens in the hopes of getting FEMA to approve the system...this after their needless cutting down and trimming of trees FAILED TO DO THE TRICK. In a related news item, FUSE USA have been granted a hearing on ground contamination and siren issues that will be held via telephone on December 21st, beginning at 1 PM. If you are interested in listening into this hearing, or want to participate, please send and email to fuse_usa@yahoo.com

Owner of Indian Point nuclear plants to add sirens to new system

By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press Writer

7:34 PM EST, November 15, 2007

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The owners of the Indian Point nuclear power plants will augment their new emergency siren system with about a dozen more sirens in an attempt to satisfy federal regulators that the system is loud enough, officials said Thursday.

The siren system is meant to alert residents within 10 miles when there is a major problem at either of the two reactors in Buchanan, 35 miles north of midtown Manhattan.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency had declared in September that the new system, which was ordered by Congress, did not meet the loudness standards originally promised by Entergy Nuclear, the plants' owner: 60 decibels in low-population areas and 70 decibels in high-population areas. Full Story