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A Controversial Nuclear Waste Cleanup Could Put a Critical Legal Question Before the U.S. Supreme Court

June 15, 2021July 8, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

A California public advocacy group says private parties should be able to make claims against a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license holder in federal district court, especially when deadly radioactive waste is at stake. Get the Petition at https://bit.ly/3xlXWXf Get this advisory as a printable pdf. San Diego, Calif. (June 15, 2021) – A California public advocacy group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to…

Los Angeles Judge issues tentative decision on San Onofre lawsuit

June 5, 2021June 18, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

A tentative decision has been made on a contentious lawsuit to save the spent fuel pools at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation

Public Watchdogs files Petition for Certiorari with U.S. Supreme Court

May 28, 2021June 4, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Today, public Watchdogs filed legal documents with the United States Supreme Court, requesting that the highest court in the land reverse a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the radioactive nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). SONGS was shuttered due to a radiation leak on January 31, 2012. The hot nuclear waste, which is radioactive and deadly for at…

Holtec brags at Chernobyl 35th Anniversary that its product is 7 orders of magnitude better than what USA regulators require

April 28, 2021June 18, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Holtec celebrates years of money-making opportunities as mourners mark the tragedy that is Chernobyl.

Engineer blasts San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Community Engagement Panel as “not credible”

April 2, 2021April 5, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Paul Blanch, a prominent engineer and energy consultant with more than 50 years of experience with nuclear energy issues is questioning the credibility of a citizen panel designed to provide public oversight of the decommissioning at the the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) beachfront nuclear waste dump. The nuclear reactors at SONGS were permanently shut down in 2013 when unlicensed equipment at the facility…

Some people call today’s meeting the “Community Enragement Panel” …

March 18, 2021March 17, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

… but whatever you choose to call it, it will be going on as a virtual meeting at 5:30 PM today, March 18 with the usual updates on the latest decommissioning activities at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). For details on how to attend from your phone or computer, ask questions, or to speak publicly, please visit the SONGS Community public relations Web site…

Shocking disclosures on Nuclear Safety Exposed in NRC Petition Review Board with Public Watchdogs, Stuart Scott, and Paul Blanch

March 17, 2021April 23, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

On March 9, 2021, Public Watchdogs was granted a Petition Review Board meeting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in response to safety allegations levied by our consultant Paul Blanch. Public Watchdogs has formally asserted that the beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump, or “Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation” (ISFSI) at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), is operating in a flood plain and tsunami inundation…

Public NRC Meeting on San Onofre! Tuesday, March 9, 11:00am Pacific Time

March 5, 2021April 23, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

This event ended March 9, 2021, but you can get the video here Get Edited Video, Part One, here: https://youtu.be/lZPTklqZ9DU Get Edited Video, Part Two, here: https://youtu.be/H_msZL5jSXs Get the unedited VIDEO of this event here: https://bit.ly/3avCVAv (This version is unabridged, with dead air, etc.) Announcement Please mark your calendar for next Tuesday, March 9, 11AM California time, when one of the heaviest hitters in the…

Holtec’s corporate shell game, and why it is unfit to handle nuclear waste at Indian Point

February 23, 2021June 11, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

How Holtec avoids responsibility for nuclear waste disasters with a vast network of dummy shell companies.

Letter of apology to people who were locked out of today’s NRC meeting

February 11, 2021April 15, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Get the video of this event here. Today, Public Watchdogs sent this letter of apology to the hundreds of supporters who tuned in online and on the phone expecting to hear an expert presentation by Public Watchdogs on the dangers of radioactive nuclear waste storage at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (get background here). On Thursday, February 11, 2021, 12:37:17 PM PST, Charles Langley…

CANCELLED! Feb 11: Public Watchdogs to argue Public safety of radioactive Spent Nuclear Fuel before NRC’s Petition Review Board

February 11, 2021April 15, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

THIS MEETING WAS CANCELLED DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES ON THE PART OF THE NRC Please read the explanatory letter to our members who were locked out of the meeting here. [UPDATE: Get the video of this event here]. Today, February 11, at 11:00 am PST, (2:00 PM Eastern), Public Watchdogs will argue before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Petition Review Board that the NRC honor the…

The NRC is providing inaccurate and false information to public

November 3, 2020November 6, 2020 Public Watchdogs 1 Comment

November 3, 2020, San Diego — In a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and to the NRC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Public Watchdogs argues that the NRC is once again deceiving the public by misrepresenting nuclear safety issues at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). In February of 2020, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Inspector General report blasted the NRC…

Public Watchdogs files NRC petition demanding analysis of public safety threats at beachfront San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump

October 15, 2020March 31, 2021 Public Watchdogs 1 Comment

Get the 2.206 Petition Here. Get the press release Today, Public Watchdogs announced that it has filed a 2.206 Petition with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to compel Southern California Edison to provide an analysis of “non-credible” safety threats at the beachfront San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump located at San Onofre State Beach Park in San Diego County. Background: The Public Watchdogs petition argues that…

Public Watchdogs’ commentary in the San Diego Union Tribune on the California Coastal Commission’s vote to approve the maintenance plan for the USA’s largest beachfront nuclear waste dump

August 7, 2020August 10, 2020 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

What could possibly go wrong with the beachfront nuclear waste dump at San Onofre State Beach park? Plenty. Like a knight in shining armor made of tinfoil, the walls on these radioactive stainless steel canisters are only 5/8-inch thick.

New Mexico Governor tells Trump that Consolidated Interim Storage of nuclear waste is “economic malpractice”

July 31, 2020 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

July 31, New Mexico — New Mexico State Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has accused president Trump of committing “economic malpractice.” In a letter to Mr. Trump dated July 28, 2020, governor Grisham expresses her opposition to a “Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, or “High-Level Nuclear Waste Dump” in New Mexico on the grounds that it is “An unnecessary risk to our citizens and our communities, our first responders,…