The end of an alarm may also be communicated by messages broadcast on national radio stations. The preliminary alarm is activated when radioactive contamination in one or more sectors is possible but not imminent. To ensure this, all schools have been equipped with radio receivers. According to the instructions, private and public school authorities organise either the transfer of children to their homes or their staying in school. The children are supervised by the teachers as long as they stay in school.
Nuclear alarm is activated when radioactive contamination in one or more sectors is imminent.
Do not expose yourself to unnecessary radiation by trying to pick up your children. In case that the nuclear alarm is activated without the preliminary alarm, the instructions concerning the distribution of potassium iodine will be given by the competent authorities. If, as a preventive measure, the authorities decide to evacuate some localities, this measure will be communicated to the inhabitants via national radio stations. In case of evacuation by your own means take your car and make sure that the windows be closed and ventilation and air conditioning systems switched off tune your radio receiver onto a national radio station follow the routes recommended by the authorities People unable to be sheltered by relativers or friends will go to accomodation centres indicated by the competent authorities. If you are unable to leave your home by your own means, go to the meeting point that the competent authorities will have indicated to you.