Every single can that holds nuclear waste at San Onofre has been damaged during the loading process. The NRC has refused to publish this audio or a transcript of its public “licensing” meeting with Holtec International’s CEO Krishna Sing. Singh and Holtec are under fire for designing a nuclear waste storage system that we believe is incurably defective. On April 10, 2019, the Nuclear Regulatory…
Press Advisory: 9-Year-Old Girl Strikes blow for justice in “hard-hitting” nuclear awareness PSA Today, Public Watchdogs announced that it has launched a hard hitting television and social media campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of deadly radioactive waste being stored at San Onofre State Beach Park in San Diego California. Get the official press release. The public service announcement, which stars a ferociously cute nine-year-old girl,…
For immediate Release, April 12, 2019 Ad alerts public to threat of nuclear waste for generations to come DATELINE San Diego, California — After launching the first public service announcement video of their “Ticking Time Bomb” public awareness campaign in late February, local nonprofit Public Watchdogs has unleashed a second PSA this week. “Fighting for our…
Ironically, Edison’s March 28th Community Engagement panel Meeting took place on the 40th Anniversary of the Three-Mile-Island (TMI) nuclear meltdown. Two NRC representatives attended the meeting: Scott Morris, and Linda Howell. The video excerpts below are from that meeting, which can be viewed in its entirety on the Public Watchdogs YouTube Channel here. On August 3, 2018, a delicate thin-walled steel canister filled with a 100,000…
On March 25, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it was fining the utility giant Southern California Edison (SCE) $116,000.00 for violations of Federal Nuclear Safety Law. The decision comes as a disappointment to public safety advocates on the grounds that the comparatively paltry fine will pave the way to additional safety lapses in the future at SCE’s controversial beachfront Nuclear Wast Dump, which is located…
Owners of the failed SONGS nuclear plant have been fined for violating Federal radiation safety laws. The fine is a wrist-slap which proves the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is incapable of enforcing the laws protecting the public from future nuclear radiation accidents. The failure of the Nuclear regulatory Commission to enforce Federal safety laws, and its history of weakening existing laws portray an NRC that is a victim of regulatory capture, where formerly powerful regulators are required to kow-tow to the whims of mid-level managers at Southern California Edison.
Public Watchdogs criticizes the NRC for not “putting boots on the ground” in its recent report, and for conducting a sham inspection. Get our letter of protest explaining why it is a sham here. Preliminary NRC report finds a host of ‘deficiencies’ after incident at San Onofre nuclear plant By ROB NIKOLEWSKI OCT 20, 2018 | 11:20 AM | SAN DIEGO – republished under the Fair Use provision of U.S….
Thursday, March 21, 9AM, Oceanside (Get Map) CA State Lands Commission vote on SONGS QLN Conference Center 1938 Avenida del Oro, in Oceanside Key Documents: State Lands Commission Agenda NRC Agenda for March 25, Enforcement Meeting Message: Arrive at 8:00 AM and ask to sign up to speak….
Nina Babiarz and Charles Langley of Public Watchdogs interview on KUSI news with Lauren Phinney about the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima radiation disaster that displaced 100,000 people in one of the largest evacuations in world history. Could a similar nuclear disaster happen in San Diego at the site of the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, where millions of pounds of deadly nuclear waste — …
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Public Watchdogs’ TV Commercial warns public of radiation danger DATELINE, February 25, 2019: SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A nuclear safety watchdog group has released a new television ad that says the nuclear waste stored near the beach at San Onofre is a disaster waiting to happen. Public Watchdogs based in San Diego has a 15 second TV ad that features shots of the…
Advocacy group buys airtime to oppose San Onofre nuclear waste Jeff McDonald February 25, 2019, 4:55 PM A San Diego advocacy nonprofit began airing new TV commercials Monday to warn about the potential dangers of storing nuclear waste from the San Onofre plant at the beach. The spot opens with traffic zooming along Interstate 5, north of Oceanside, past…
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Public Watchdogs Presentation on the status of the beachfront nuclear waste dump at San Onofre State Beach When: Sunday, February 22, 2019, 1030:AM Where: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 429 Cypress Drive (get Map) Laguna Beach, CA, 92651 Order of Service: Welcome to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Laguna Beach! Here, we strive to be a dynamic and growing fellowship… Diverse in age, ethnicity,…
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