Complete Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station Siren Map

[fire_freak_57]

After 6 long months of working on this, I've finally decided to call it quits on this one and wrap it up. This is the first complete map of the sirens within the EPZ of BVPS (Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station), with 114 of the 118 total sirens listed (I could not find the last three or four despite weeks of searching, and I've come to the conclusion that that number is either inaccurate or the sirens are hidden by trees somewhere).

Due to 95% of the EPZ zone lacking Street View, I could only verify a handful of the siren numbers. The rest are marked with variables (I used the variable x to denote siren numbers). I still have to go back and fix the "120", as prior news articles have said the plant had 120 sirens, while official literature from FENOC (FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company) have clarified that there is in fact only 118 sirens.

Most are 2001-Equinoxes installed around 2011 or 2012, but there are also a variety of older 2001's in the system as well, ranging from 2001-SRN's and SRNB's to 2001-130's (all of which were installed to supplement the old ACA system which was comprised of Allertor 125's and Banshee 115's, which were installed by ACA in 1980 or 1981).

The existing ACA system was removed in 2011 and 2012 when FENOC upgraded all 3 of their nuclear plant's siren systems (Perry and Beaver Valley both received these Equinoxes in 2011 and 2012), and we likely would not have the 508 and the Equinox today had it not been for FENOC signing a siren system contract with Federal Signal which made them roll out the Equinoxes for FENOC, originally a prototypical model for what is now known as the 508-128 siren. The Equinox was reintroduced as a mainstream model of the 2001 series in 2014.

Green points are some random fire sirens and whatnot I ran across but decided to include them anyways.

I do apologize for the lines on the EPZ boundary however Google My Maps would not convert them to a polygon once I connected all the lines for whatever reason.

Beaver Valley Nuclear tests their sirens annually on the First Thursday in September (exact times and dates are announced in advance from a week to a few days prior to the test). The plant is scheduled to be closed and decommissioned in 2021 as part of FirstEnergy Nuclear's bankruptcy restructuring which will see it integrated into affiliate FirstEnergy Solutions, which has already begun internally (which is owned by parent company FirstEnergy Corp. here out of Akron). The NRC received the notice of decommissioning of all three of FENOC's nuclear plants last September and Davis-Besse in Oak Harbor will be the first (decommissioning will begin late this year), followed by Perry and Beaver Valley in 2021.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the map!

Link: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewe ... 53725&z=10

[Purring Cat]

The map is locked. It says i need permission to open it.

[TBoyer1999]

Very well done map! You are obviously the first to map out (almost) all of the Beaver Valley sirens. Definitely worth all of the time it took you.

Very nice work

[fire_freak_57]

Very well done map! You are obviously the first to map out (almost) all of the Beaver Valley sirens. Definitely worth all of the time it took you.

Very nice work

Thank you! Sure took a lot of time.
Still have to go back and change siren numbers. Unfortunately all the correct numbers are unavailable, the NRC did not disclose any information on BVPS’s siren system (most recent revision of the EPI report ended before the “Prompt Alert Siren System” section.

It should be noted that siren system information for FirstEnergy’s two other nuclear plants (in Ohio), Davis-Besse and Perry, are publicly available on the NRC website (takes a bit of digging to find but the info is on there).

GENERAL EDIT: Changed map to link sharing so I don’t have to keep granting people access. Sorry about that, link should work now.

[CR5]

This has me kind of curious, does anybody know where they took the old aca units? Id like to know, and possibly get my hands on an old bvps allertor or banshee

[Bijay]

This has me kind of curious, does anybody know where they took the old aca units? Id like to know, and possibly get my hands on an old bvps allertor or banshee

I'm sure they're long gone at this point. They were probably on-site of the power plant for some time before being sent off to a recycling center for scrap.