The Vogtle plant
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:07 am
by 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.
Re: The Vogtle plant
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:55 pm
by 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.
murrfarms wrote:austin-burns wrote: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.
carexpertandy wrote: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.