Disaster Preparedness
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">Energy: Track Records and Truths
- Nuclear Waste and Safety
- 3 weeks ago
What happens when transparency meets a track record?
- Nuclear Waste and Safety
- 3 weeks ago
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">Melissa's Message for 'San O'
- Environmental Justice
- 3 weeks ago
Another deadly hurricane season is upon us. What if it went nuclear?
- Environmental Justice
- 3 weeks ago
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">No Caribbean Queen, just Melissa
- Energy and Climate
- 1 month ago
Deadly Hurricane Melissa displaces thousands across the Caribbean
- Energy and Climate
- 1 month ago
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">Silent Threats, Unseen Risks: The Public Safety Gap at San Onofre
- Community Health
- 1 month ago
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station may be decommissioned, but its spent fuel remains a pressing hazard.
- Community Health
- 1 month ago
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">Swan SONGS: Nonprofit Warns Locals
- Civic Engagement and Advocacy
- 1 month ago
The Samuel Lawrence Foundation screened the 2023 film "SOS: San Onofre Syndrome" for a crowd of concerned citizens at the La Paloma Theater on October 5, 2025. The film was made by James Heddle, Mary Beth Brangan, and Morgan Peterson, and it covers the various events that have led to the current state of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).
- Civic Engagement and Advocacy
- 1 month ago
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">Regulatory Blind Spots: Who Really Protects Us at San Onofre?
- Disaster Preparedness
- 2 months ago
The decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2015 transferred emergency responsibility from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Southern California Edison and local agencies. While intended to streamline management, this shift has created a complex web of regulatory gaps that experts say leaves millions of residents at risk.
- Disaster Preparedness
- 2 months ago
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">Surfing on the Edge: Recreation Meets Risk at San Onofre
- Community Health
- 2 months ago
San Onofre State Beach, known for its waves and wide sandy shores, draws surfers, campers, and families year-round. Yet few visitors realize that beneath the scenic cliffs lies one of the country’s largest nuclear waste storage sites. The decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station houses millions of pounds of spent nuclear fuel in canisters located just steps from the Pacific Ocean.
- Community Health
- 2 months ago
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">Buried in Plain Sight: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Waste
- Nuclear Waste and Safety
- 3 months ago
Across the U.S., shuttered nuclear plants leave behind a toxic inheritance: spent nuclear fuel with no permanent home. This waste is not just inconvenient; it remains hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years, far beyond any human planning horizon. Yet, in the absence of a national repository, utilities store it onsite in steel canisters or concrete casks, often near water, sometimes in areas vulnerable to natural disasters.
- Nuclear Waste and Safety
- 3 months ago
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">Heatwaves and the Energy Crunch: A Dangerous Feedback Loop
- Energy and Climate
- 2 months ago
California’s summers are getting hotter, and heatwaves are now longer, stronger, and deadlier. As temperatures soar, the demand for electricity spikes, straining the grid and triggering rolling blackouts. This cycle creates a dangerous feedback loop: burning more fossil fuels to stay cool drives the very warming that fuels future heatwaves.
- Energy and Climate
- 2 months ago