Charente-Maritime nuclear safety exercise phone alert, Digi Mart USA News (Charente-Maritime, France): Several thousand residents of Charente-Maritime are set to have their phones ring simultaneously on Thursday, November 12, and Friday, November 13. Residents of 23 communes in the Jonzac district will receive an alert message as part of a national nuclear safety exercise, according to Actu – La Rochelle.
The alert originates from the Blayais Centre Nucléaire de Production d’Électricité (CNPE), the nuclear power plant. The exercise, named “FR Alert,” is designed to broadcast an alert message to all mobile phones located closest to the Blayais plant.
The test zone covers the 20 kilometers around the plant that fall within the plan particulier d’intervention (PPI), the particular intervention plan.
A regulatory test requiring no action
No action will be requested of the public during the exercise. A message will be displayed on electronic signs in both directions of the A10 motorway and will be supplemented by regular announcements on radio station 107.7.
About fifty other communes in the department, located farther from the plant, will also be affected by the alert. These municipalities will be required to activate their commune safeguard plans.
As a reminder, these alerts are organized every five years and are mandatory to test the implementation of the particular intervention plan for the Blayais nuclear power plant.
