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…
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…
This two minute video does the best job we’ve ever seen of explaining the long-term horror of nuclear waste. What do you think? Please comment. We would love to hear your opinion.
This two minute video does the best job we’ve ever seen of explaining the long-term horror of nuclear waste. What do you think? Please comment. We would love to hear your opinion.
Editor’s Note: Delbert Everett Pomani Jr, who we all knew as Black Fox, passed away at the age of 63 on May 17, 2024. He gave generously of his time and spirit when he was in San Diego helping us fight the construction of a high-level radioactive nuclear waste dump at San Onofre State Beach Park. That park, with its rolling and gentle surf, is located…
In February of 2021, Public Watchdogs researched Holtec shell companies in New Jersey, Delaware, and Florida. We located more than 30 corporations operated by Holtec, but this list is by no means complete. Multiple holding companies and subsidiaries are a useful way to hide and launder money, or to limit legal liability. Holtec Shell Company Name ID Number City Type State 1 HOLTEC DECOMMISSIONING INTERNATIONAL, LLC…
Public Watchdogs is cited as a source for documents in this Federalist article on the involvement of Kamala Harris in the cover-up of criminal activity at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The Federalist pulled its punches on this story by not releasing it until Election Day, November 5, 2024. The gist of the story, which ran on November 5, 2024, is that Harris…
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If the world survives the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance,” it may well become known as humanity’s Second Dark Age, where a handful of greedy plutocrats decided to use primitive last-century nuclear technology to power an energy-gobbling AI infrastructure.
Shhh … Don’t tell anybody, but if only 2% of the drivers that were ripped off by an illegal gasoline trading scam bother to fill out the settlement claim form, each person could receive as much as $85 or more from the settlement fund. Let us know what you think in the comments As the table below shows, there are are roughly 22 million drivers who…
Introducing the Invisible Settlement Notice This “Notice of Proposed Settlement” from the Superior Court of California is a failure in our opinion. Do you agree? Let us know in the comments. Below is a scan of the undated “dwarf” postcard that was mailed to California gasoline victims in late September and early October of 2024. Click here for details on how to claim your money. Then…
If you live in California and purchased gasoline between February 20, 2015 and November 10, 2015 in San Diego or Los Angeles Counties, (plus eight other counties)*, then you are probably eligible for a refund thanks to a legal action by the California Department of Justice. Some of you may have received a postcard notification. Submit a claim online here at: https://calg.calgaslitigation.com/ Now the bad news. …
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UPDATE: On 09-25-24, we finally received a name-redacted copy of the radiation spill report filed by a BNSF railroad worker to the California Department of Health. Get the Department of Health report. Sept. 10, 2024 – HazMat Spill Report Get the official San Benardino Fire Department Hazardous Materials (HazMat) spill report, with photos of the leaking containers, internal reports, and more. Get the document here….
UPDATED 09-25-24: California Public Records Act response with a letter from the NRC explaining the spill. See also a name-redacted copy of the official San Bernardino Fire Department report, including photos, on the recent spill of radioactive water from a rail shipment headed toward Clive Utah for disposal, and this report to our members. The spill came from water left inside a 100-ton, 37-foot high steel…