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Thursday, February 10, 2022: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Community Engagement Panel

February 10, 2022February 11, 2022 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Get a video of this meeting. Today, the San Onofre Community Engagement Panel, which is controlled by Southern California Edison, will be hosting Dr. Kim Petry, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Petry will discuss consent-based siting for federally approved temporary radioactive nuclear waste dumps. These facilities are known as Consolidated Interim Storage or "CIS." Get details on the Community Engagement...

10 AM Saturday! Zoom presentation on San Onofre Nuclear Waste and Federal Litigation

April 20, 2021July 16, 2021 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

This Zoom teleconference event is free, but you must register here in advance. This coming Saturday, April 24, at 10AM, Public Watchdogs will be presenting a status report and update on the ongoing legal and regulatory battle to safely store eternally deadly nuclear waste at the site of the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). Click here to register. This event is hosted by the…

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…

SONGS Community “Engagement” Panel to hold virtual meeting August 20

August 19, 2020August 20, 2020 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

CLICK HERE to attend the Skype Meeting Thursday, August 20th, ( at 5:30pm SoCal Edison is holding a virtual meeting on the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), via Skype teleconference Southern California Edison needs to know they are accountable to people like you who have financed this nuclear boondoggle. When you attend by phone or via Skype, it sends a powerful message…

Video of Public Watchdogs’ NRC 2.206 Petition to Revoke, June 24, 2020

June 25, 2020June 30, 2020 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Video of Public Watchdogs 2.206 Petition to Nuclear Regulatory Commission revoke SONGS permit to bury radioactive nuclear waste on the beach.

Today: Nov 25 emergency court hearing on the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 Public Watchdogs 6 Comments

Court hearing to grant or deny an emergency restraining order requested by Public Watchdogs to halt the burial of deadly radioactive waste on the beach at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, (SONGS), Monday, November 25, Room 4D U.S. District Court

SONGS Coastal Commission meeting on Thursday, October 17, 9:00 am, Chula Vista

October 10, 2019October 11, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Mark your calendar to speak out and attend the California Coastal Commission meeting on the planned demolition of the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in Chula Vista on Thursday, October 17, 2019. Get a copy of the agenda here. The meeting starts at 9:00 am at the Chula Vista City Council Chambers, 276 Fourth Avenue, Chula Vista, CA 91910 (get map) Why this meeting…

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

August 17, 2019August 27, 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…

April 10, 2019, recording of Holtec and NRC Joint Public Relations event

April 19, 2019May 9, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Is the NRC embarrassed, or just secretive? Every lowered canister containing nuclear waste at San Onofre has been gouged during the loading process. This is a problem, because even small scratches can create a toe-hold for stress corrosion cracking, which has the potential to destroy the integrity of a canister in a matter of years. The NRC has refused to publish a transcript, or this…

NRC inspection paves the way to additional safety lapses at SONGS

March 31, 2019April 3, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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…

Public Watchdogs’ comments on the 8th anniversary of Fukushima.

March 11, 2019April 7, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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 — …

Public Watchdogs presentation in Laguna Beach, this Sunday, 02-22-19, 10:30 AM

February 22, 2019February 25, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

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,…

November 8th NRC Webinar on San Onofre Video and Transcript

January 31, 2019March 10, 2019 Public Watchdogs Leave a comment

Finally! The NRC has published the video of its November 8, 2018 Webcast! Sometimes, getting the Federal Government to move takes an Act of Congress. That’s why we invoked the Freedom of Information Act to force the NRC to actually make its public records public for the November 8, 2018 San Onofre Special Inspection Webinar. Below are links to the video of the November 8th Webinar,…