RESIDENTS living near Sellafield may hear the nuclear site's siren sounding tomorrow, as an emergency excercise is set to take place.

An emergency exercise will take place during normal business hours at Sellafield on Tuesday, June 6.

This 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 approximately 8.30am on the morning of the exercise.

People who live close to Sellafield and have signed up to receive automated SMS text, email, and telephone warnings from Sellafield, may be contacted.

If you are a local resident and haven’t yet signed up to receive automated alerts, but would like to, follow the instructions here: Alert Cascade - Register

Emergency exercises are held regularly at all nuclear licensed sites to test their readiness in the event of an emergency.