The Most Critical Issue at San Onofre is Upon Us NOW!
Damaged nuclear waste canisters on the beach at San Onofre. I posed the question: “Do you approve or NOT!?” Take a listen …
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Public Watchdogs demands California Coastal Commission hold Edison accountable for damaged nuclear waste canisters
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…
Recording of live Southern California Edison Community Engagement Panel Meeting, June 4, 2026, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
Public Watchdogs has posted a recording of the June 4, 2026 Community Engagement Panel Meeting on its YouTube Channel.
Infant Mortality, Christi Brinkley, and a Nuclear Lububu?
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. …
The Radiation leak (and the big lie) that shut down Unit 3 at San Onofre on January 31, 2012
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…
Public Watchdogs’ comments to SONGS Community Engagement Panel, and Edison’s response
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…
New Harvard Study Links Cancer to Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants
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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Earthquake strikes 2.7 miles from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
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...
Publication of SONGS Hazardous Waste Event Report No. 58027
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...
Holtec MPC-37 Canister Download Schematic, cutaway view illustration
Cutaway view of the defective downloading system for a Holtec MPC-37 canister containing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at the San Onofre Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (SFSI). Source: San Diego Union Tribune.
Edison “Engagement Panel” on SONGS, this Thursday, 5:30pm
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...
Copy of California Highway Patrol Report on getting hit by shrapnel during the Vance/Hegseth tour of Camp Pendleton
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…
“Critical” leadership is missing at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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
Donald Trump’s Executive Order to “reinvigorate” the nuclear energy industry
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…