The emergency siren test will take place on Tuesday around 10:45 a.m.

First Staters living in the area north of Delaware City, west of Middletown and south of Woodland Beach should expect emergency sirens for a few minutes Tuesday morning.

The Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), the Delaware State Police and the Public service group will conduct a quarterly test of the Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant Warning and Notification System at 10:45 a.m

“These tests are part of an ongoing program between DEMA and PSEG that continually monitors the integrity of the siren system so that we are able to alert the public within the 10-mile emergency planning zone of the Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station (in New Jersey) in the event of an actual emergency,” said Patrick O’Connell, DEMA’s planning manager for the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program.

In Delaware, there are 37 sirens within a 10-mile radius.

The sirens are activated for three to five minutes, followed by a test message from the emergency alert system on local radio stations.

The devices tested are the same ones used to alert the public in the event of an actual emergency at the Salem or Hope Creek nuclear power plants.

In the event of an actual emergency, there would be a series of three to five minute siren tones that would alert citizens to turn their radio to an emergency alert station to receive important emergency information or instructions.

“Delaware emergency sirens are an important outdoor warning system designed to alert those outside that something dangerous is occurring and that they should go indoors and seek further information,” O’Connell said .

Delaware is one of 32 states where the population lives within 10 miles of a commercial nuclear reactor.

Raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Jarek earned a BA in Journalism and a BA in Political Science from Temple University in 2021. After running CNN’s Michael Smerconish YouTube channel, Jarek became a reporter for the Bucks County Herald before moving to Delaware LIVE News.

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