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September 5, 2024 3:52 pmNRC Report on SONGS Pressurizer Radiation Leak
This is what you need to know: If this radiation leak had not been discovered by a railroad worker, and witnessed by local Hazmat responders, we would probably never know about it. This is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report on the recent leak of radioactive water from the failed San...
Read more →September 4, 2024 5:07 pmSONGS virtual public meeting, Thursday, June 5, 2pm to 5pm, “Community Engagement Panel”
There has been yet another radiation leak involving the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), and we need your attendance at a virtual meeting at 2pm Thursday to hold them accountable. Even if you remain silent your presence will put extreme pressure on Edison to tell the truth! (and as...
Read more →August 14, 2024 2:32 pmSupreme Court Decision weakens APA and the power of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Chevron doctrine is dead. On June 28, 2024, a new Supreme Court Decision put long overdue limits on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its power to ignore regulatory law on behalf of the big utilities it regulates. The Chevron doctrine asserted that if a federal law is ambiguous or...
Read more →August 8, 2024 5:24 pmLetter to the Editor, Orange County Register
The following is a letter to the Editors of the Orange County Register in response to an exceptionally well-researched report by columnist Terri Sforza. The letter was written by Public Watchdogs’ Director of Development, Nina Babiarz, In the original opinion, Sforza pointed out the link between our sky-high electric rate increases,...
Read more →August 5, 2024 12:01 pmCorporate Censorship: Yahoo and AOL are blocking the free speech of nuclear activists
WARNING: If you use Yahoo or AOL, you will never receive an email from Public Watchdogs because those emails are being censored. Yahoo is censoring emails from anti-nuclear groups such as Public Watchdogs, and also the emails of prominent citizens who support us, or have been actively organizing against the threat...
Read more →July 25, 2024 3:28 pm“Twinkle-Eyed” fun and games at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
If a handful of the radioactive plutonium stored at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was atomized, spread evenly over the earth, and then inhaled, it would be enough to give every person on the planet cancer. Plutonium is one of the many eternally deadly radioactive metals that are present...
Read more →July 25, 2024 3:28 pmCritique of the Orange County Register and its pro-nuclear valence
The editorial opinion below is in response to a “twinkle-eyed fun and games” opinion by Teri Sforza in the Orange County Register. The Register’s opinion is peculiar because it downplays the lethal nature of nuclear waste as “boring.” The rebuttal below is by Ace Hoffman, author of the popular graphic-novel monograph, ...
Read more →May 2, 2024 1:22 pmIt is impossible to buy insurance against nuclear disasters
Today, Dr. Sarah Mosco published an important and widely distributed editorial opinion explaining that it is impossible for citizens to buy insurance against a nuclear disaster at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s beachfront nuclear waste dump. Get the opinion here. Background on Emergency Planning at San Onofre Public Watchdogs...
Read more →April 24, 2024 10:09 amThe AB 205 Shell Game: How the promises of AB 205 and AB 1999 were broken
AB 1999 was supposed to repeal the deeply flawed AB 205. It didn’t. As documented on our website for months, Public Watchdogs has followed the entire legislative process of AB 205 from beginning to its promised end when California Assemblywoman Jackie Irwin led a press conference committing to introduce new...
Read more →April 12, 2024 5:02 pmAB 205 puts five political appointees in charge of the new income charge on your electric bill
The price you pay for electricity is going up with a new government mandated "fixed fee" that goes straight into the pockets of California's monopoly utilities.
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