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Earthquake strikes 2.7 miles from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

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At 12:36 PM yesterday, Sunday,December 7th, the United States Geological Survey(USGS) reported that a 3.3 earthquake occurred only 2.7 miles away from the San Onofre nuclear waste dump.  The facility,  located at the site of the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), is home to more than 3.6 million pounds of deadly, radioactive “spent” nuclear fuel, or SNF placed in 73 (seventy-three) ‘scratched and damaged’ canisters. The earthquake at...

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Copy of California Highway Patrol Report on getting hit by shrapnel during the Vance/Hegseth tour of Camp Pendleton

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This is the original California Highway Patrol (CHP) report with details on how the Marines, under the direction of the Secretary of the War Department, Pete Hegseth, launched potentially deadly metal fragments at Highway Patrol vehicles and CHP officers by accident on October 18, 2025.  Get the CHP report. New Yorker article on Mr. Hegseth’s ascent. “No decision more clearly reveals Donald Trump’s disdain for his…

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Cash-Strapped Electricity Ratepayers offered bank loans to pay bills!

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US Bank is now offering loans so that families can “finance” sky-high high electric bills It’s no secret that San Diego County residents are victimized by the highest utility rates in the nation.  We pay as much as three times more than other states, which may be why almost one out of every four customers of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are behind on their…

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Assembly Bill 305 is all wrong for Californians who don’t want nuclear power expanded

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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 nuclear industry has influenced a legislative change that provides an “exemption” to that allows “Small…

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Why Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) are a BIG Problem for California

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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 delivers a safe storage solution for radioactive nuclear waste, also known as “Spent Nuclear Fuel…

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Whistleblower exposes Corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump

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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 coverage in Washington focused on a series of horrific taxpayer overcharges and safety lapses at…

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SDG&E’s electric rates are the highest in the nation

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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 costs are due to a lax regulatory environment, increased expenditures on deferred-maintenance fire prevention, and…

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What is Holtec Smoking? $70 million lost to cannabis-loving employees?

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New Jersey Monitor, an independent news organization is reporting that Holtec, the company that made the nuclear waste storage canisters for the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has admitted that its employees have embezzled money and duped its CEO, Krishna "Kris" Singh, into a $70 million loss from questionable investments in the cannabis industry. Top Holtec executives have admitted to investing in the dope...

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Gasoline Settlement Claim Form and how you were jumped at the pump by a criminal enterprise

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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 received a postcard notification. Submit a claim online here at:  https://calg.calgaslitigation.com/ Now the bad news. …

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Report to members on Radiation leaks at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)

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UPDATE:  On 09-25-24, we finally received a name-redacted copy of the radiation spill report filed by a BNSF railroad worker to the California Department of Health.  Get the Department of Health report. Sept. 10, 2024 – HazMat Spill Report   Get the official San Benardino Fire Department Hazardous Materials (HazMat) spill report, with photos of the leaking containers, internal reports, and more.  Get the document here….

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NRC Report on SONGS Pressurizer Radiation Leak

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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 Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in a San Bernardino railroad yard.  The junked nuclear equipment…

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SONGS virtual public meeting, Thursday, June 5, 2pm to 5pm, “Community Engagement Panel”

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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 you know, “truth-telling” is not a part of Edison’s corporate culture). On Thursday, June  5…

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Corporate Censorship: Yahoo and AOL are blocking the free speech of nuclear activists

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WARNING: If you use Yahoo or AOL, you may 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 of nuclear war, nuclear disasters, and nuclear power. And because you are reading this, you…

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“Twinkle-Eyed” fun and games at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant

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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 in every pellet of the more than 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San…

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Critique of the Orange County Register and its pro-nuclear valence

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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,  Code Killers.  The original essay can be found at the acehoffman.org website at this  page. …

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