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April 19, 2025 9:00 pmAssembly Bill 305 is all wrong for Californians who don’t want nuclear power expanded

Let your elected officials in the Assembly know that you are watching! Get our list of Talking Points on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) AB 305 is the very first item on the Committee on Natural Resources Hearing Agenda at 2:30pm Monday, April 21 (don’t be late to this virtual meeting!) California’s...

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April 19, 2025 7:24 pmWhy Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) are a BIG Problem for California

Talking Points on SMRs and AB 305 Click HERE to get this document as a one-page pdf. Situation Analysis:  After the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima disasters, no nuclear power plants have been built in the USA.  In 1976, California also banned all new nuclear reactors until the federal government...

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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...

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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.  

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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