An emergency exercise will take place at Sellafield next week.
The exercise will take place during the evening of Tuesday, June 4.
It may involve the sounding of the site siren, which can be heard off-site.
Access to and from the site will be as normal up until around 6.30pm on the evening of the exercise.
People who live near to Sellafield and have signed up to receive automated text, email, and telephone warnings from Sellafield, may be contacted.
Any contact will be made before 8.30pm. There will not be an end of exercise notification as the exercise could conclude late into the evening.
If you are local to the nuclear site and have not yet signed up to receive automated alerts, but would like to, follow the instructions here.
Emergency exercises are held regularly at all nuclear licensed sites to test their readiness in the event of an emergency.
