ALERT: FBI Announces “Nuclear Incident Training Exercise”

The FBI announced a nuclear incident training exercise in New York starting Sunday, January 26th.

“A large-scale, multi-agency nuclear incident TRAINING EXERCISE will take place 1/26-1/31 in Schenectady, Albany, & Saratoga Counties. The training exercise will NOT pose risks to area residents. Please do not be alarmed by the activity,” FBI Albany announced.

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The Departments of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and state and local partners will conduct the exercise in several areas of Schenectady and Albany, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties as part of a series of regularly scheduled U.S. government biannual exercises. Similar trainings have been conducted in various regions across the United States since 2012.