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May 7, 2026 11:00 amInfant Mortality, Christi Brinkley, and a Nuclear Lububu?

In this week’s Nuclear Hotseat, Episode #775, Three-Mile Island Survivor and author, Libbe Halevy features Joseph J. Mangano, an epidemiologist who is working with Christi Brinkley on the Radiation Public Health Project and its latest study, titled Worsening Newborn/Infant Health in San Luis Obispo County and the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactors....

April 8, 2026 4:36 pmWhy a new fungus that devours nuclear waste changes nothing

The fungi have amazed scientists because of their  ability to grow in conditions that are lethal to most life forms. Some scientists believe this may be linked to the way these organisms interact with radiation at a cellular level.  The hope is that these fungi could somehow devour nuclear waste...

March 28, 2026 4:40 pmA Three-Mile Island Evacuation Story: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

Today is the 47th anniversary of the USA’s worst nuclear disaster.  Nina Babiarz, our Director of Devlopment,  was there. By Nina Babiarz Every anniversary of the Three-Mile Island (TMI) meltdown puts me in a reflective mood. It was so much more than just that moment the meltdown occurred at 4 am...

March 24, 2026 3:55 pmBombing Iranian power plants is a war crime

What happens if Iran bombs our power plants? The 1977 Geneva Convention, Article 56, states that bombing power plants is a war crime.  Despite this prohibition, many have have argued that the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a legitimate military target because it is located on Camp Pendleton, a...

February 17, 2026 11:50 amNew Harvard Study Links Cancer to Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants

December 8, 2025 3:07 pmEarthquake strikes 2.7 miles from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

November 11, 2025 6:47 pmPublication of SONGS Hazardous Waste Event Report No. 58027

November 11, 2025 1:08 pmEdison “Engagement Panel” on SONGS, this Thursday, 5:30pm

October 22, 2025 10:42 amVideo Recording of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Community Engagement Panel meeting on radioactive nuclear waste

Public Watchdogs has recorded and published the latest San Onofre Community Engagement Panel (CEP) meeting on the disposal of deadly high-level radioactive nuclear waste (they prefer to call it SNF or “spent nuclear fuel”) at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (“SONGS”). Background:  SONGS was shut down after a defective...

October 19, 2025 10:48 amCopy of California Highway Patrol Report on getting hit by shrapnel during the Vance/Hegseth tour of Camp Pendleton

This is the original California Highway Patrol (CHP) report with details on how the Marines, under the courageous leadership of the Secretary of the War Department, Pete Hegseth, accidentally shelled Highway Patrol vehicles and CHP officers on October 18, 2025.  Get the CHP report.  New Yorker article on Mr. Hegseth’s ascent....