Fire Department HazMat report of the nuclear spill that occurred in the BNSF railroad yard in San Benardino on June 30, 2024, 8:02pm

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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…

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NRC Report on SONGS Pressurizer Radiation Leak

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This is what you need to know:  If this radiation leak had not been discovered by a railroad worker, and witnessed by local Hazmat responders, we would probably never know about it. This is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report on the recent leak of radioactive water from the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in a San Bernardino railroad yard.  The junked nuclear equipment…

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SONGS virtual public meeting, Thursday, June 5, 2pm to 5pm, “Community Engagement Panel”

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There has been yet another radiation leak involving the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), and we need your attendance at a virtual meeting at 2pm Thursday to hold them accountable. Even if you remain silent your presence will put extreme pressure on Edison to tell the truth! (and as you know, “truth-telling” is not a part of Edison’s corporate culture). On Thursday, June  5…

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Radiation leak during railroad transport of equipment from the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)

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Yesterday the the Union Tribune reported that radioactive water is leaking out of junked equipment on rail cars leaving the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) near San Clemente California.  Get the full story with photographs at the San Diego Union Tribune. This historically important story is reproduced here under Section 107 of U.S. copyright law.  We encourage you to view the original article with…

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Supreme Court Decision weakens APA and the power of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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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…

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San Diego Senators

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To find out if this is your Senator, enter your address here to find your California Representative   2024 California State Senators-San Diego County Catherine Blakespear (D), District 38 includes District Map Capitol Office Capitol Office, 1021 O Street, Suite 7340, Sacramento, CA 95814-4900; (916) 651-4038 District Offices 169 Saxony Road, Suite 209, Encinitas, CA 92024; (760) 642-0809 24031 El Toro Road, Suite 201A, Laguna Hills, CA…

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Orange County Senators

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To find out if this is your Senator, enter your address here to find your California Representative 2024 California State Senators-Orange County Lena Gonzales (D), District 33 includes Map Capitol Office Capitol Office, 1021 O Street, Suite 7720, Sacramento, CA 95814-4900; (916) 651-4033 District Office 3939 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 107, Long Beach, CA 90807; (562) 256-7921 3355 East Gage Avenue, Huntington Park, CA 90255; (323) 277-4560 Email…

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How to locate and contact County and City of San Diego elected officials, plus California State Assembly and State Senate

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Updated  August 9, 2024.  This page contains hard-to-get phone numbers and email addresses of your elected representatives in San Diego County by zip code and District. For a list of Orange County Senators, click here. For San Diego Senators, click here. For advice on how to talk to politicians and take action, click here. Let your elected leaders know what you are upset about and that…

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Your electric rates have DOUBLED!

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This opinion from the Orange County Register is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law and is published here for archival not-for-profit purposes.  Please read the original report here. Electric bills have essentially doubled over the past decade Column: Free Edison programs aim to help you seal up. But the pain is real. By Teri Sforza | tsforza@scng.com | Orange County Register UPDATED:…

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Letter to the Editor, Orange County Register

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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,…

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Corporate Censorship: Yahoo and AOL are blocking the free speech of nuclear activists

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WARNING: If you use Yahoo or AOL, you may never receive an email from Public Watchdogs because those emails are being censored. Yahoo is censoring emails from anti-nuclear groups such as Public Watchdogs, and also the emails of prominent citizens who support us, or have been actively organizing against the threat of nuclear war, nuclear disasters, and nuclear power. And because you are reading this, you…

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“Twinkle-Eyed” fun and games at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant

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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…

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Critique of the Orange County Register and its pro-nuclear valence

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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. …

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It is impossible to buy insurance against nuclear disasters

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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…

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