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This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. The most active projects have been related to the San Onof...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
This group is a party to the investigation by the California Public Utilities Commission. Parent topic is: ShutSanOnofre * SCE * public web page to make ...
Upcoming Events Recent Events Latest News After significant work in planning a single annual event, Earth Summit San Diego 2019, organizers decided to reform th...
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FundDecommissionSanOnofreTeam See project topics here: ShutSanOnofre and CoalitionToDecommissionSanOnofre The Coalition to Decommission San Onofre (CDSO) continue...
Overview This project is to enable activist teams who will visit local jurisdictions around the San Onofre nuclear plant and ask them to support the "Move the Was...
Please Note: This page provides the PUBLIC SUPPORT PETITION and not the formal filing (also called a petition) before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Please vi...
For New Visitors Hello! Very glad to see you make it to this page to find out about the HELMS Proposal for storing nuclear waste around the country in a sensible ...
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FUKUSHIMA REMEMBEREDProtest Continued Risky and Costly Operation of San Onofre Nuclear Waste Plant On March 11 Fukushima Daiichi Disaster Anniversary * Had...
Nuclear power was supposed to be too cheap to meter, but a science based nonprofit that advocates for environmental and public health issues has published a new r...
SEND TO ALL LISTS PRESS RELEASE Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPS) Ray Lutz / RayLutz@CitizensOversight.org / 619 820 5321 Residents Organizing for a Safe Env...
Part 1 First 15 minutes or so were from livestream by Jason Snyder (because I forgot to start my camera). At least we got it all. This part includes our guest fro...
How do you move a 640 ton, 65 foot tall steam generator 15 miles up the coast? Very slowly. Over the past three weeks crews moved an enormous generator from Camp ...
Massive new turbines expected to increase electrical output from the San Onofre nuclear plant will be installed starting this month, part of a $280 million upgrad...
Part 1 * March from San Onofre State Beach * Charlie Imes Reverend Stickman Gathering music * Gene Stone, Residents Organized for a Safe Environment ...
The chairman of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission toured the San Onofre nuclear power plant Friday with elected officials. He later met with activists who...
Friends of the Earth announced their petition filed to allow them to confront Southern California Edison regarding the redesign of the steam generators at San Ono...
See also 12 11 08_NRC_Memorandum_and_Order_on_Petition_and_Stay_App * 12 06 18 NRC FOE petition to intervene San Onofre.pdf: Petition by Friends of the Earth t...
OCEANSIDE About 10 people urged the Oceanside City Council on Wednesday to place on a future meeting agenda a discussion on the nuclear power plant in San Onofre....
For the past four years, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has had the highest number of safety complaints of any nuclear plant in the country. That s not th...
LOS ANGELES (AP) The future of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant could balance on an inescapable question: Is it worth the money to fix it? Engineers ...
California energy officials are preparing for the possibility the San Onofre nuclear power plant could be offline through 2013 or 2014. While there is no timetabl...
Replacing four of the San Onofre nuclear plant s biggest parts took 10 years and cost almost $700 million. SDG E and others said the project was premature. It was...
After last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster, a subcontracting company working to clean up the plant told workers to lie about high radiation exposure in a bid to...
(Financial Times) Nuclear power is so expensive compared with other forms of energy that it has become "really hard" to justify, according to the chief executiv...
'Shut Down San Onofre': The New Front Line in the Fight Against Nuclear Power Jon Wiener on July 5, 2012 5:52 PM ET Not long after the meltdown at Fukushima, wo...
SAN CLEMENTE (CBS) _ _ Previously classified documents along with other evidence uncovered in an exclusive CBS2 investigation point to potential hidden dangers a...
Negin: Renewable energy would create more jobs than nuclear power Elliott Negin, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR If Christine Todd Whitman were really serious about promotin...
Rally and Press Conference http://youtu.be/Ejxra54m7qw Meeting Part 1 http://youtu.be/CcEmbpvJ71E Meeting Part 2 http://youtu.be/Aomjo1bjxsw Meeting Part 3...
Your browser does not support the audio element. It was a lesson in fighting city hall or, in this case, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. An activist engineer...
AUDIO: http://www.kpbs.org/audioclips/16167/ It s a David and Goliath situation, but a panel of independent judges at the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is con...
SAN ONOFRE, Calif. If Southern California Edison thought it was moving smoothly toward firing up San Onofre's Unit 2 reactor, it received a rude awakening on Fr...
Featured Interview: Engineer and activist Ray Lutz nukes the NRC s cover up of SCE s responsibility for San Onofre s steam generator problems. PLUS: * Four n...
Resolution as Adopted: San Diego School Board Resolution San Onofre Power Plant Safety, 1 22 13 Press Conference http://youtu.be/XUSmmxtUO68 Resolution Agenda ...
VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE http://youtu.be/Szq8ATVhc 4 VIDEO OF HEARING MediaArchivedOffline TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING * I1210013_022113_VOL_1_PPH.PDF: Transcrip...
Late in the evening on Wednesday, one of the busiest and most unnerving times Washington has seen in a long while, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quietly appoi...
* Thank you to the organizers of this event, particularly Torgen Johnson. * Thank you to Cathy Iwane for great translation! Part 1: * Intro by County Super...
This meeting occurred just after the announcement by Southern California Edison that they would not attempt to restart either unit at the San Onofre Nuclear Gener...
The CPUC is a public agency that is responsible for regulating the public utilities in California. In this case, this agency is in the midst of an investigation i...
Introduction Citizens Oversight has briefly engaged with the NuclearRegulatoryCommission (NRC) over the last year or so regarding mainly the San Onofre Nuclear Ge...
* COPS_comment_to_NRC_on_Foreign_Ownership.pdf: Official submission to the NRC. To: Jo Ann Simpson Financial Analyst Financial Analysis and International Proje...
Original motion for CDSO Party status 75391894 CDSO_Motion_for_Party_Status.PDF: CDSO Original Motion for Party Status Response by ALJ Darling to Motion for Par...
Video of Afternoon Session About 7 minutes were omitted at the beginning of Part 1 and 3 minutes at the beginning of Part 2 which were facilitator remarks about l...
This Public Participation Hearing (PPH) was held in San Diego to hear comments from the public regarding the CPUC investigation into the outages at San Onofre, I....
Videos can be viewed directly on CPUC website at the following links. The first day of the proceeding was not webcast and is not available. The .rm links can be p...
ml13263a271 so inspectionreport2013 09 20.pdf: SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION – NRC CONFIRMATORY ACTION LETTER RESPONSE INSPECTION 05000361/2012009 AND 050...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coalition to Decommission San Onofre Contact: Ray Lutz, 619 820 5321 raylutz #64;citizensoversight.org EDISON SDG E PROPO...
* SD UT Nuke Pg1 Sun 4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF * SSD UTnuke_story Pg2 Sun4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF Pg 2 At issue is whether utilit...
This consultant report was prepared in response to Assembly Bill 1632 (“AB 1632” Blakeslee, Chapter 722, Statutes of 2006), which directed the California Energy...
For many decades, the California Public Utilities Commission and the big companies it regulates — Pacific Gas Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern Cal...
PLEASE USE THIS VERSION INSTEAD OF ANY PRIOR VERSIONS YOU MAY HAVE DOWNLOADED! * I12 10 013 CDSO Settlement Opening Comment REV1.pdf: CDSO Opening Comment on t...
Nuclear deal slams consumers, as usual By Dan McSwain5 p.m.May 10, 2014 FILE In this Friday, June 7, 2013 file photo, surfers pass in front of the San Onofre nu...
Who pays for a worthless power plant? By Morgan Lee6 a.m.May 11, 2014 San Onofre nuclear power plant Nuclear plants across the United States routinely swap out m...
Closing of nuke helps Edison to higher earnings Eric Wolff 5 November 2013 SNL Generation Markets Week GMW The closure of the San Onofre nuclear generating statio...
Settling The Bill For Closing The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Wednesday, May 14, 2014 By Erik Anderson Utilities, consumer advocates and critics are in...
NOTES: * This video is not the entire hearing, but the introductory remarks and the cross examination by Attorney Mike Aguirre. This version includes all the ...
Attempting to solve the continuing mystery we could call Who Killed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station? U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer has demanded that the Nuclear...
* Original Source: http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/TenHoeveEES12.pdf * Local copy of WorldwideEffectsOfFukushima TenHoeveEES12.pdf: Read the resear...
Plan to Track Quake Threat Is Questioned By JOHN UPTON A hulking research vessel would haul air guns, echo sounders and other instruments along the California co...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two years before an immense coastal earthquake plunged Japan into a nuclear crisis, a geologic fault was discovered about a half mile from a Ca...
SAN DIEGO Southern California Edison on Tuesday abandoned a plan to send a 600 ton decommissioned reactor vessel on what would have been the longest voyage ever...
Diablo safety committee asks for further review on cooling system BY COLIN RIGLEY In a special meeting of the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee, members...
There is an extraordinary push by certain individuals to extol the wonders of thorium fueled nuclear reactors. In fact, so concerted is this push that some blame ...
Beginning in 2012, I used the Nuclear Regulatory Commission non concurrence and differing professional opinion (DPO) processes to raise nuclear safety issues affe...
U.S. nuclear safety regulators missed red flags in 2009 when they agreed to pre approve steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant without a thorough review...
NRC InspectorGeneralReportOnSongs ML14276A478.pdf: NRC Inspector General Report on SONGS and 10CFR 50.59 Searchable Text Page 1 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERA...
The following documents are unaltered from their original form as received from our source. We will be processing these so they are searchable but these PDF files...
A group of utility consumers announced a federal lawsuit Friday against the California Public Utilities Commission and one of the state’s largest electric compani...
You may hear that nuclear power is "green" because it does not contribute to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) pollution, and thus is a possible solution to climate change. Af...
* 2014 12 31_COPS_Letter_to_Victor_Dricks_on_Diablo_Canyon_Safety_Meeting_on_Jan_14,_2015_in_Arlington_TX.pdf: 2014 12 31 COPS Letter to Victor Dricks on Diablo C...
* Original Link: http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/04/f0/brc_finalreport_jan2012.pdf The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (BRC) was fo...
IMPORTANT QUOTES In the context of the overall waste management system, the Administration supports the goal of siting, designing, licensing, constructing and com...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On February 25, 2015, Citizens Oversight and other plaintiffs, represented by attorneys Aguirre Severson LLP, made a significant filing in...
View the video * View directly on Calchannel website: http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7 clip_id=2638 * See "Key Testimony" Transcript...
Prehearing conference of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant decommissioning proceeding. in this meeting, the parties make their case for issues that have been determine...
Nuclear energy: assessing the emissions Kurt Kleiner reports on whether nuclear power deserves its reputation as a low carbon energy source. Estimates of the ...
NUCLEAR WASTE: Draft House bill would direct millions to fund interim storage facilities Hannah Northey, E E reporter E E Daily: Friday, June 19, 2015 The Republ...
* See * ShutSanOnofre for more information on the problems at the plant. * StopTheUnfairSettlement for references to catch up on the current status o...
Calif. Judge Retires Amid Controversy Over SoCal Edison Case Share us on: By Carmen Germaine Law360, New York (January 6, 2016, 10:40 PM ET) The California Pu...
"Going naked" is a term the insurance industry uses to describe not having insurance. And when it comes to the worst hazards of nuclear power, America is going na...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) How do you feel about paying billions of dollars for the mistake of giant corporations? It happened to taxpayers during the bail out of banks. ...
June 23rd, 2016 Dear Readers, Three important nuclear power events occurred in the past seven days one in Nebraska and two in California which together show j...
* A PRUDENT VIEW OF EARTHQUAKE RISKS, NUCLEAR PLANTS AND NUCLEAR WASTE ALONG THE CALIFORNIA COAST link to the PDF. * View video of the CEP meeting here: http...
Scripps study finds two faults linked Newport Inglewood, Rose Canyon part of single quake system By Gary Robbins The Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Tues...
Owners of the failed San Onofre nuclear plant agreed Friday to begin negotiations aimed at relocating tons of radioactive waste from the San Diego County coastlin...
Citizens Oversight, Inc. et al filed a lawsuit against the Coastal Commission to block the permit they granted to Southern California Edison to bury 3.6 million p...
Part 2: Q A Comments https://youtu.be/tJXVmUPAbEY CommonCalendar Entry * 4 May 2017 Oceanside Public Meeting on Beach Nuclear Waste Facility at Oceansi...
Citizens' Oversight vs. California Coastal Commission (See NukeWasteLawsuit) is limited to the documents in the record when the action was taken. The following fi...
REMARKS OF DR. TOM ENGLISH Hi, Good morning. My name is Dr. Tom English. I was the program manager for the high level nuclear waste team from the Jet Propulsion L...
CommonCalendar Entry * 25 May 2017 No Nuke Dump on the Beach Presentation by RayLutz with intro by Maria Severson (Attorney) at SeasideCenter, 1613 Lake Dr, ...
CommonCalendar Entry * 08 Jun 2017 No Nuke Dump Presentation by Ray Lutz, with introduction by Dr. Tom English at VistaLibrary, (5:30 pm) RSVP: (https://www...
Use the following as a template for your file to stay on message, but also feel free to CUSTOMIZE to your own experience! Best not to have identical letters from ...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SCE STUNG WITH NRC VIOLATION NOTICE ON CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY STIRS MEMORIES OF FAILED STEAM GENERATORS DU...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Spent Fuel Storage Mfr Holtec Shows Alarming Imprudence Requested that 24 hr inspections be done once a month, saying it could be called '...
REDACTED FINAL AWARD, REDACTED CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION, AND REDACTED CORRECTED PARAGRAPHS IN THE AWARD IN ICC ARBITRATION CASE NO. 19784/AGR/RD PUBLIC ...
CommonCalendar Entry * 22 Thu 2017 No Nuke Dump Presentation in Dana Point at HennesseysTavernDanaPoint, 34111 La Plaza, Dana Point, CA 92629 (7:30 pm, gath...
CommonCalendar Entry * 24 Jun 2017 No Nuke Dump Presentation at WomensClubOfCarlsbad, 3320 Monroe Street, Carlsbad, CA 92008 (Time 10am, gather 9:30am) RSVP:...
Email from Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green Dear ALL, I have been pressing Tom Palmisano for answers to questions we posed for quite some time now. I just got ...
This page was edited by RayLutz, founder of CitizensOversight Background Settlement document, press release, etc: * SettlementToMoveSanOnofreWaste This is t...
This is the first in depth presentation by Ray since the announcement of the settlement on August 28. He will review the background of the waste at San Onofre and...
Background http://www.SanOnofreSafety.org is a website run by Donna Gilmore with a wealth of good factual information about nuclear "dry cask" storage systems, as...
This book is a fairly easy read and reasonably good, but far to tightly focused on Hanford defense industry waste rather than spent fuel from civilian plants. Wri...
RayLutz says: I wholeheartedly recommend this book which gives an in depth and thorough accounting of history through the year 2013 of the nuclear waste situation...
This is a horrible example of how far off our Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in estimating problem. This PRA has fatal flaws, such as: FATAL FLAW 1: No appreci...
This article, and the cost of energy chart that is included, is one of the most important charts of our lifetime, in my view. Photovoltaic Solar power (PV) is ext...
Three plus years after state regulators permitted Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas Electric to start charging consumers billions of dollars for the ...
Questions have come up regarding the San Onofre Shutdown Settlement. Instead of answering them n times, we have gathered them here so many people can be more full...
* Rehearing_Request.PDF: RUTH HENRICKS’ AND THE COALITION TO DECOMMISSION SAN ONOFRE’S (CDSO) APPLICATION FOR REHEARING DECISION D.14 11 040 (20 NOVEMBER 2014, IS...
California’s last nuclear plant to close after unanimous vote by regulators California’s last nuclear power plant — Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped ...
REGION — El Cajon based nonprofit Citizens’ Oversight Projects has filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to change the way spent nuclear fuel fr...
* Yucca_Mountain_Nevada_Report_Update_January_24_2018_nanp180124mayors_conf 1.pdf: Yucca Mountain Update and Transportation Impacts, January 24, 2018 by Robert J....
Please Note: This has been renamed simply HELMS. See more here: HelmsProposal * PrRel__Press_Conf_on_Nuclear_Waste_4_30_Laguna_Hills_Cmty_Ctr_TODAY.pdf: This i...
Southern California Edison hosts a quarterly "Community Engagement Panel Meeting" to present their point of view. Public comment is accepted (3 min). Includes dis...
A team of six experts in the nuclear energy sector has been assembled to find a way to move the 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Gen...
The new “Experts Panel” that will probe re homing options for 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San Onofre includes Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U...
This meeting is the first hearing held by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regarding the impact on rates due to the shutdown of the San Onofre nu...
Status Imported from Congress.gov Bill Summary This bill amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to direct the Department of Energy (DOE) to initiate a progr...
Citizens' Oversight's NRC filing "HELMS" Public Comment Period Ends June 5 at Midnight Legal Action with NRC to Improve Nuclear Waste Storage Safety Proposed “H...
Some Important Passages: As reflected in these wide ranges in cost estimates, large cost uncertainties remain. For instance, if the cancelled Yucca Mountain repos...
This is an extraction of the comments to the DCISC on June 13, 2018. The entire meeting videos are availble here: * June 13: http://slo span.org/media/video_fi...
* nwtrb mngmntanddisposal dec2017 508a.pdf: Management and Disposal of U.S. Department of Energy Spent Nuclear Fuel A Report to the United States Congress and t...
ACTION REQUEST Please Send an email To: HoltecCISFEIS@nrc.gov Re: USNRC Docket No. 72 1051 I am concerned about the DESIGN LIFE of the storage system being only...
Four years after approving a plan that charged ratepayers billions of dollars for the premature closing of the San Onofre nuclear plant, state utility regulators ...
Draft EIR The draft EIR can be found at this address: https://www.slc.ca.gov/Info/Reports/San_Onofre/SONGSDraftEIR_All.pdf CommonCalendar Entry * 07 Aug 2018 ...
CommonCalendar Entry * 25 May 2019 EarthSummit at BalboaParkClubBallroom, 2150 Pan American Road West, 92101 (Registration 8:30am, Event 9am to 9pm) RSVP: ht...
The following are links to good videos on these disasters. * 1959 Santa Suzanna CA https://youtu.be/9nAThD7WIz4?t=1339 * 1961 SL 1 disaster, Southeastern ...
Sign the Petition Please sign the petition below and join us in pushing for this initiative to move the waste OFF THE BEACH and further INLAND but WITHIN the Camp...
* COPS Comments on NRC CABs proposal.pdf: COPS comment on CABs to the NRC CommonCalendar Entry * 29 Aug 2019 NRC meeting on Citizen Advisory Boards (CABs) a...
NRCIntervention * Federal Agency Compensation of Intervenors Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 1 1 1976 this only describes the options and d...
Even though it is no longer useful for nuclear power, spent nuclear fuel (SNF) poses a dangerous, long term health and environmental risk. It will remain dangerou...
Laws and standards * Exposure limits of general public http://www.nrc.gov/reading rm/doc collections/cfr/part020/part020 1301.html * Total effective do...
The actual agreement * San Onofre Closure Settlement Agreement fully executed Motion for CPUC to adopt the settlement in proceeding I.12 10 013 (SONGS OII) ...
Overview The Settlement Oversight Panel has been established to provide critical oversight over the San Onofre nuclear waste settlement. This panel is advisory in...
Background The best source of background information is the Settlement FAQS (Frequently Ask Questions). Latest News * 19 06 13 Experts Team Strategy Partner A...
Get Bumper Stickers! Objective: Permanent decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) WE WON! Southern California Edison announced a pe...
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Facility is DANGEROUS and must be SHUT DOWN! * All nuclear facilities are inherently dangerous because they must be actively cooled even ...
On August 28, 2017, a historic settlement agreement was announced to MOVE THE WASTE TO A SAFER PLACE Navigational Aids Our primary focus will be on the Pendleton...