Charles Langley

Nuclear Regulatory Commission “Town Hall,” August 20, 2019, 7PM in San Juan Capistrano – NRC to listen to public

August 17, 2019August 18, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

This is your invitation to join Public Watchdogs and other concerned citizens on Tuesday, August 20, 7:00pm in San Juan Capistrano (get map) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Town Hall on San Onofre. Here’s the official NRC announcement. NRC “Town Hall” San Juan Capistrano Community Center 25925 Camino Del Avion San Juan Capistrano, CA This may be your only chance to tell NRC what you…

Fullerton Observer: Scandals at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station put public at risk

August 9, 2019August 9, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Holtec’s thin-walled canisters are lemons. All of them are exposed salt from the Pacific Ocean at San Onofre that will cause the metal cans to fail quickly. “Stainless steel does not really rust when it is exposed to salt, it cracks open. Our experts say that even a minor scratch in one of these cans can pave the way to chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking, and we know that all of the cans have been deeply gouged so far.”

PUBLIC SAFETY THREATENED BY FEAR OF RETALIATION AT SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP

August 9, 2019August 13, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

One year ago today, on August 9th, 2018, everything changed at the San Onofre High-Level nuclear waste dump. A whistleblower stepped forward and changed the course of history with an alarming disclosure that Southern California Edison and the NRC had violated the law …

Nuclear Regulatory Commission has no “Plan B” for a canister failure at San Onofre

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Dateline August 8, 2018 — During today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Webinar, (get the Public Watchdogs Video Capture Here) a top NRC official admitted that the beachfront San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump, which is owned and operated by Southern California Edison, has no backup plan for repairing or safely storing a damaged nuclear waste container. During the public question-and-answer segment of the Webinar, Donna Gilmore, a…

The Acjachemen’s tribal homeland is San Onofre State Beach Park

August 5, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Adelia Sandoval, Spirutual Leader, Ajchachemen Nation, Jauneno Band of Mission Indians.

That metallic taste? It’s possible you’ve been irradiated.

August 5, 2019August 18, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

If you have a metallic taste in your mouth, it could be radiation from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Surfers in San Onofre are rumored to report experiencing a metallic taste in heir mouth after getting in the water near where Southern California Edison (SCE) uses a system called “Dilute and Discharge,” to dump radioactive water from its spent fuel pools into the Pacific Ocean….

SCE to Restart Fuel Transfer Operations at San Onofre Nuclear Plant

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

On July 15, 2019, Southern Califronia Edison announced that it would resume the transfer of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. lethally radioactive waste) at its beachfront nuclear waste dump located at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The movement of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) was stopped for almost a year on August 3, 2018 when a 100,000 pound canister of SNF was nearly dropped 18 feet in what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) calls a “near-miss.” Southern California Edison worked closely with the NRC to keep this harrowing “near-miss” and an additional unreported “near-miss” on July 22, 2018, a secret from the public.

Edison resumes burial of deadly nuclear waste at public beach

July 17, 2019July 22, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

The San Onofre State Beach Park Nuclear Waste dump, known by the Orwellian term “ISFSI” or Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation,” has been portrayed as a safe and clean storage facility for nuclear waste, but critics say that water and nuclear waste don’t mix, and that this particular dump is the most dangerous in the U.S.A.

7.1 Earthquake deepens fears of a nuclear release at failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant

July 12, 2019July 14, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

San Diego, CA, July 12, 2019 – Last week, Southern California was hit by an earthquake with a 7.1 magnitude. The earthquake shook most of Southern California including the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), where 3.6 pounds of deadly nuclear waste is in the process of being buried in Holtec canisters 108 ft. from the ocean. It remains unclear if SoCal Edison has an earthquake…

Does Holtec International bribe federal employees to get its contracts?

July 11, 2019July 24, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Is Kris Singh, the CEO of Holtec International a crook?

Nuclear Regulatory Commission spurns request for full-time safety inspector at San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump

July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

In its latest outrage, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) bureaucrats have spurned a request by a sitting United States Congressman to put a full-time safety inspector onsite during the transfer of spent nuclear fuel at the accident-prone San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has spurned a written request from Congressman Mike Levin to deploy a full-time NRC inspector at the San Onofre Nuclear…

New Government Accountability Office Report highlights failure of NRC to protect public against “dirty bombs”

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

The non-partisan congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a scathing report on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s failure to protect the public from “Dirty Bombs” The GAO was chartered by Congress to investigate and audit how taxpayer dollars are spent by federal agencies. This report is a bombshell The new report is titled COMBATING NUCLEAR TERRORISM: NRC Needs to Take Additional Actions to Ensure the Security…

Radioactive emergency sirens at San Onofre are being removed … but that doesn’t mean there is no risk.

July 8, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Southern California Edison has announced that it is removing all of its radiation alert sirens from nearby communities that are close the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). Now that the plant is closed, 3.6 million pounds of deadly radioactive nuclear waste are being buried 108 feet from the beach. When the beachfront nuclear waste dump is completed, it will contain 72 giant, thin-walled canisters…

NRC June 3 2019 Webinar now available at PublicWatchdogs.org

June 3, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

The June 3, 2019 Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Webinar is now available at the Public Watchdogs YouTube Channel. The NRC has promised that it will publish a video of today’s deeply disturbing Webinar, but we doubt they”ll get around to publishing it for several weeks, so we have published it here. The webinar was is supposed to reassure the public that the NRC is actually doing…

NRC refuses to fine Holtec for violating Federal nuclear safety laws, underscoring its complete failure to protect the public

May 5, 2019May 7, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Holtec had two violations, the NRC said: failure to establish adequate design control measures of components important to safety, and failure to perform evaluations before making changes. A base civil penalty of $36,250 was considered and rejected due to Holtec’s “prompt and comprehensive” corrective actions, which outraged some critics. “The failure by the NRC to fine Holtec for breaking the law shows that it isn’t serious about protecting the public’s safety,” said Charles Langley, executive director of Public Watchdogs, in a statement.