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Public Watchdogs’ comments to SONGS Community Engagement Panel, and Edison’s response

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At the close of the last 2025 Southern California Edison Community Engagement Panel (CEP) meeting, the Chair, Dan Stetson mentioned that the CEP panel members and Edison were planning to conduct a session to determine the agendas for the upcoming 2026 CEP meetings.  The details would include dates, venues, topics, and issues. Mr. Stetson also indicated that community members and groups could provide Edison with recommendations…

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New Harvard Study Links Cancer to Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants

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Cancer rates are higher for people who live near nuclear power plants. That is the conclusion of a new report from a Harvard research team. According to the study, more than 20,000 cancer victims in Massachusetts contracted the cancers because they were living too close to a nuclear power plant. The study's summary has this blunt conclusion: "Residential proximity to nuclear plants in Massachusetts is associated...

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Welcome KNSJ.  This page is non-public.  Please start with Pilot Episode 1 Episode 1, 12-Steps Radio   March 26, 2026 Episode 2, 12-Steps Radio  March 26, 2026 Episode 3, 12-Steps Radio, March 26,2026 Original  Demonstration Episode, not for publication, 01-16-2026 https://publicwatchdogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Radio-Anonymous-KNSJ-cut-2.0.m4a

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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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Publication of SONGS Hazardous Waste Event Report No. 58027

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received an Event Report involving the improper handling of hazardous waste material at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). SONGS was shuttered in 2013 after it blew hazardous radioactive steam into the atmosphere from a defective Replacement Steam Generator (RSG). The California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) noted that in violation of the SONGS' permit, and California...

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Edison “Engagement Panel” on SONGS, this Thursday, 5:30pm

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To attend the meeting at 5:30PM on Thursday, November 13, click here. Click here to attend As a Public Watchdogs member, you are probably one of the most informed and educated people in our community regarding our community’s biggest concern: The 73 scratched and gouged canisters that are located 108 feet away from the mighty Pacific. With nowhere for that radioactive waste to go, we are...

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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 courageous leadership of the Secretary of the War Department, Pete Hegseth, accidentally shelled Highway Patrol vehicles and CHP officers 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 this country’s armed forces than his…

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“Critical” leadership is missing at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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As of June 25, 2025, four mission-critical executive-level leadership posts have been left vacant by the Trump administration at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Those posts are the Chairman,  an unidentified Fourth Commissioner,  the Deputy Executive Director for Reactor and Preparedness Programs,  and the Deputy Director for Nuclear Material,  Administrative, and Corporate Programs.  Click here for a full size pdf of the thumbnail below. 2025-07-01-NRC-Org-Chart

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Donald Trump’s Executive Order to “reinvigorate” the nuclear energy industry

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Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial base, Executive Orders, May 23, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  The United States originally pioneered nuclear energy technology during a time of great peril.  We now face a new set of challenges, including a global race to dominate in…

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Donald Trump’s Executive Order to “Reform” the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Testing Program

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  Reforming Nuclear Reactors Testing at the Department of Energy, Executive Orders, May 23, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  The United States led the development of civilian nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Reactor Testing Station (now known as Idaho…

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Donald Trump’s Executive Order to Eviscerate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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ORDERING THE REFORM OF THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION May 23, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  Abundant energy is a vital national- and economic-security interest.  In conjunction with domestic fossil fuel production, nuclear energy can liberate America from dependence on geopolitical rivals.  It can…

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Your California State Senate and Assembly Member contact info, District Maps, and Bios for Orange and San Diego Counties

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Updated: May 23, 2025 Finding a California politician’s phone number can be time consuming and frustrating.  That’s why Public Watchdogs has done the research for you.  Below is a complete list of San Diego and Orange County Senate and Assembly members with maps showing the boundaries of each district. When “Redistricting” takes place, your District’s elected official representation may change as well. Make sure you know…

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URGENT! CA Assembly to vote for MORE nuclear power plants, Monday, 2:30 PM

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On Monday, April 21, 2025, the California Assembly is slated to vote on AB 305, a “stealth exemption” that will enable the nuclear industry to begin building build small nuclear power plants in California by exempting “Small Modular Reactors” or “SMRs” from existing law. The vote on Assembly Bill 305 will occur at the Committee on Natural Resources Hearing at 2:30pm on Monday, April 21st.  AB…

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Radioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Plants: A Cause for Concern

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By Roger Johnson, PhD, contributing editor  All nuclear power plants regularly discharge radioactivity into the environment.  They produce large quantities of radioactive materials and some of it gets discharged into the atmosphere, waterways, and surrounding land.  The public needs to know more about these radioactive emissions, especially since they are conducted frequently and in secret.  Ionizing radiation is a known carcinogen, and since cancer is becoming the number one…

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