Public Watchdogs: Because the Public has a right to know

March 18, 2025 11:11 amRadioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Plants: A Cause for Concern

By Roger Johnson, PhD, contributing editor  All nuclear power plants regularly discharge radioactivity into the environment.  They produce large quantities of radioactive materials and some of it gets discharged into the atmosphere, waterways, and surrounding land.  The public needs to know more about these radioactive emissions, especially since they are conducted frequently and...

March 17, 2025 5:17 pmWhy nuclear waste is dangerous in a brief two minute video

This two minute video does the best job we’ve ever seen of explaining the long-term horror of nuclear waste. What do you think?  Please comment.  We would love to hear your opinion.  

December 9, 2024 4:53 pmWhistleblower exposes Corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump

Documentation of corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump Thank goodness for the courage and sacrifice of Whistleblowers! Public Watchdogs’ Director of Development, Nina Babiarz, was talking with one of our Board members who resides in Washington state.  Familiar with our situation at San Onofre, he described to her the daily news...

December 4, 2024 3:19 pmSDG&E’s electric rates are the highest in the nation

Are we customers or “victims?” It’s Official: According to a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics  SDG&E customers are paying the highest rates for electricity in the entire USA.  These rates are even higher than “outlier” states such as Hawaii, and Alaska.    A significant portion of the higher...

December 4, 2024 2:49 pmCHIEF BLACK FOX SPEAKS: Nuclear Waste and Native American Prophecy

Editor’s Note:  Delbert Everett Pomani Jr, who we all knew as Black Fox, passed away at the age of 63 on May 17, 2024.  He gave generously of his time and spirit when he was in San Diego helping us fight the construction of a high-level radioactive nuclear waste dump at...

November 26, 2024 6:04 pmWhat is Holtec Smoking? $70 million lost to cannabis-loving employees?

October 31, 2024 12:30 pmThe Horror of a nuclear “comeback”

If the world survives the so-called "Nuclear Renaissance," it may well become known as humanity's Second Dark Age, where a handful of greedy plutocrats decided to use primitive last-century nuclear technology to power an energy-gobbling AI infrastructure.

October 9, 2024 5:25 pmGasoline Settlement Claim Form and how you were jumped at the pump by a criminal enterprise

If you live in California and purchased gasoline between February 20, 2015 and November 10, 2015 in San Diego or Los Angeles Counties, (plus eight other counties)*, then you are probably eligible for a refund thanks to a legal action by the California Department of Justice.  Some of you may have...

September 18, 2024 12:56 pmReport to members on Radiation leaks at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)

UPDATE:  On 09-25-24, we finally received a name-redacted copy of the radiation spill report filed by a BNSF railroad worker to the California Department of Health.  Get the Department of Health report. Sept. 10, 2024 – HazMat Spill Report   Get the official San Benardino Fire Department Hazardous Materials (HazMat) spill...

September 11, 2024 9:20 amFire Department HazMat report of the nuclear spill that occurred in the BNSF railroad yard in San Benardino on June 30, 2024, 8:02pm

UPDATED 09-25-24:  California Public Records Act response with a letter from the NRC explaining the spill. See also a name-redacted copy of the official San Bernardino Fire Department report, including photos, on the recent spill of radioactive water from a rail shipment headed toward Clive Utah for disposal, and this report...