Today is the 47th anniversary of the USA’s worst nuclear disaster. Nina Babiarz, our Director of Devlopment, was there. By Nina Babiarz Every anniversary of the Three-Mile Island (TMI) meltdown puts me in a reflective mood. It was so much more than just that moment the meltdown occurred at 4 am in middle of the night. The ensuing consequences were varied and numerous. Three Mile Island…
What happens if Iran bombs ours? The 1977 Geneva Convention, Article 56, states that bombing power plants is a war crime. Despite this prohibition, many have have argued that the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a legitimate military target because it is located on Camp Pendleton, a military base. According to the Geneva Convention’s Rules of War, which have been ratified by the U.S.A….
Public Watchdogs has recorded and published the latest San Onofre Community Engagement Panel (CEP) meeting on the disposal of deadly high-level radioactive nuclear waste (they prefer to call it SNF or “spent nuclear fuel”) at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (“SONGS”). Background: SONGS was shut down after a defective piece of experimental equipment released radioactive steam into the air on January 29, 2012. The…
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…
US Bank is now offering loans so that families can “finance” sky-high high electric bills It’s no secret that San Diego County residents are victimized by the highest utility rates in the nation. We pay as much as three times more than other states, which may be why almost one out of every four customers of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are behind on their…
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…
In this episode of Libbe HaLevy’s popular broadcast, Nuclear Hotseat, Libbe interviews Public Watchdogs’ co-founders, Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz about the extraordinary legislative treachery swirling around California Assembly Bill 305 (AB305), and how it is designed to pave the way for a massive rollout of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in California. If AB305 is successful, “small” nuclear reactors could be deployed in every California…
Let your elected officials in the Assembly know that you are watching! Get our list of Talking Points on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) AB 305 is the very first item on the Committee on Natural Resources Hearing Agenda at 2:30pm Monday, April 21 (don’t be late to this virtual meeting!) California’s nuclear industry has influenced a legislative change that provides an “exemption” to that allows “Small…
Talking Points on SMRs and AB 305 Click HERE to get this document as a one-page pdf. Situation Analysis: After the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima disasters, no nuclear power plants have been built in the USA. In 1976, California also banned all new nuclear reactors until the federal government delivers a safe storage solution for radioactive nuclear waste, also known as “Spent Nuclear Fuel…
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.