This email documents how Commission staff is failing to amser direct questions about safety at the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Facility
Damaged nuclear waste canisters on the beach at San Onofre. I posed the question: “Do you approve or NOT!?” Take a listen …
In this video, Public Watchdogs’ Nina Babiarz asks the California Coastal Commission to enforce its Coastal Development Permits. The first thing you have to understand is that standing anywhere near the walls of one of these canisters will give you a lethal radiation dose in a matter of seconds. Even the robotic inspection cameras, which are designed to transmit photographs and video are destroyed quickly by…
Public Watchdogs has posted a recording of the June 4, 2026 Community Engagement Panel Meeting on its YouTube Channel.
In this week’s Nuclear Hotseat, Episode #775, Three-Mile Island Survivor and author, Libbe Halevy features Joseph J. Mangano, an epidemiologist who is working with Christi Brinkley on the Radiation Public Health Project and its latest study, titled Worsening Newborn/Infant Health in San Luis Obispo County and the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactors. In addition, Libbe also features Linda Pentz Gunter and her new book No to Nuclear. …
On January 31, 2012, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) lied about a radiation leak that tainted the skies and air above Southern California in this press release. According to the release: “There has been no release to the atmosphere.” They lied. It was not a “lie of omission.” It was a shameful bald face lie. They lied because they had to. The operator, Southern…
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…
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…
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