The Vogtle plant

[Fearguy1234]

As we all know, (I hope at least some of know) that Georgia has seen a new nuclear power plant go up, the first one to be accepted by the NRC in over 30 years, which is actually quite nice, since nuclear power is a pretty good energy source in my opinion.

I was wondering if anyone has caught a test, or heard a test of their siren system. They use Whelen WPS 3016's.

[DJ2226]

There are 48 sirens in the system, 47 WPS 3016s and 1 WPS 2020. According to a post by Ian, they were dual toned before being upgraded to new controls some time ago.

This System of Whelen WPS-3016 is located in Burke County, Georgia. The system belongs to Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. There are 29 sirens in this system.

Here is a picture of the system's coverage:
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There's actually 48 sirens in Vogtle's warning system, not 29. Here's a map of the system I made a while back: http://goo.gl/maps/WXvYr

From what I could hear during one of their tests back about 10 years ago or so, the whole system originally had all dual toned ESC-864 controllers, but they've since upgraded all of them sometime in the early/mid-2000s per NRC regulations. I think the upgraded controllers have the 440Hz alert tone, but I haven't been up there since the upgrade to hear any of them.

I assume the Federal DSA Siren is a replacement? I wonder why.

It's not a DSA, it's a Whelen WPS-2020. Their entire system is all older Whelens, mostly 3016s with this one 2020 at the plant itself.