If you are near the Cruas nuclear power plant this Friday morning, you will receive an SMS. It is a life-size test of the new national information system in the event of a major crisis called Fr-Alert. The particularity of the system is that it sends information to mobile phones without going through the relay antennas which would necessarily be saturated in the event of a disaster. The message is transmitted by radio waves. The only limit: you need 4G to receive it, and therefore have a smartphone.
Residents of the Drôme also concerned
In the case of the exercise of this Friday, October 21, it is the prefect of the Ardèche who will trigger the alert and who will therefore decide on the perimeter concerned, either 2 kilometers or 5 kilometers around the Cruas power plant. This could affect residents of the Ardèche and the Drôme.
This device has already been tested in the Bouches-du-Rhône and, Thursday, October 20, in Vaison-la-Romaine in the Vaucluse.
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