Why nuclear waste is dangerous in a two minutes
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.
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Whistleblower exposes Corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump
Documentation of corruption at Hanford nuclear waste dump Thank goodness for the courage and sacrifice of Whistleblowers! Public Watchdogs’ Director of Development, Nina Babiarz, was talking with one of our Board members who resides in Washington state. Familiar with our situation at San Onofre, he described to her the daily news coverage in Washington focused on a series of horrific taxpayer overcharges and safety lapses at…
SDG&E’s electric rates are the highest in the nation
Are we customers or “victims?” It’s Official: According to a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SDG&E customers are paying the highest rates for electricity in the entire USA. These rates are even higher than “outlier” states such as Hawaii, and Alaska. A significant portion of the higher costs are due to a lax regulatory environment, increased expenditures on deferred-maintenance fire prevention, and…
CHIEF BLACK FOX SPEAKS: Nuclear Waste and Native American Prophecy
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…
What is Holtec Smoking? $70 million lost to cannabis-loving employees?
New Jersey Monitor, an independent news organization is reporting that Holtec, the company that made the nuclear waste storage canisters for the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has admitted that its employees have embezzled money and duped its CEO, Krishna "Kris" Singh, into a $70 million loss from questionable investments in the cannabis industry. Top Holtec executives have admitted to investing in the dope...
The Horror of a nuclear “comeback”
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.
Gasoline Settlement Claim Form and how you were jumped at the pump by a criminal enterprise
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. …
Report to members on Radiation leaks at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
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….
Fire Department HazMat report of the nuclear spill that occurred in the BNSF railroad yard in San Benardino on June 30, 2024, 8:02pm
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…
Supreme Court Decision weakens APA and the power of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Chevron doctrine is dead. On June 28, 2024, a new Supreme Court Decision put long overdue limits on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its power to ignore regulatory law on behalf of the big utilities it regulates. The Chevron doctrine asserted that if a federal law is ambiguous or has an “administrative gap,” then the courts must defer to the regulatory agency’s interpretation. This…
Letter to the Editor, Orange County Register
The following is a letter to the Editors of the Orange County Register in response to an exceptionally well-researched report by columnist Terri Sforza. The letter was written by Public Watchdogs’ Director of Development, Nina Babiarz, In the original opinion, Sforza pointed out the link between our sky-high electric rate increases, and how utility profits, are directly connected to the utilities’ questionable “costs.” In this response,…
“Twinkle-Eyed” fun and games at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
If a handful of the radioactive plutonium stored at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was atomized, spread evenly over the earth, and then inhaled, it would be enough to give every person on the planet cancer. Plutonium is one of the many eternally deadly radioactive metals that are present in every pellet of the more than 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San…
Critique of the Orange County Register and its pro-nuclear valence
The editorial opinion below is in response to a “twinkle-eyed fun and games” opinion by Teri Sforza in the Orange County Register. The Register’s opinion is peculiar because it downplays the lethal nature of nuclear waste as “boring.” The rebuttal below is by Ace Hoffman, author of the popular graphic-novel monograph, Code Killers. The original essay can be found at the acehoffman.org website at this page. …
It is impossible to buy insurance against nuclear disasters
Today, Dr. Sarah Mosco published an important and widely distributed editorial opinion explaining that it is impossible for citizens to buy insurance against a nuclear disaster at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s beachfront nuclear waste dump. Get the opinion here. Background on Emergency Planning at San Onofre Public Watchdogs exposed the lax safety regulation at San Onofre in its widely acclaimed report Radiological Regulatory…
The AB 205 Shell Game: How the promises of AB 205 and AB 1999 were broken
AB 1999 was supposed to repeal the deeply flawed AB 205. It didn’t. As documented on our website for months, Public Watchdogs has followed the entire legislative process of AB 205 from beginning to its promised end when California Assemblywoman Jackie Irwin led a press conference committing to introduce new legislation to “roll back the Public Utility Commission’s proposed income graduated fixed fee.” AB 1999…