San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – and owner Southern California Edison’s manipulations to abandon the Holtec thin-walled “tin can” canisters
to High Tide on the beach.  Can you spot the problems?  HINT:  There are even more! 

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This Week’s Featured Interview:

• San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – what could go wrong?  Plenty!  That’s why we talked with  two leaders of the non-profit safety group, Public Watchdogs – Charles Langley, Executive Director, and Nina Babiarz, a board member.  The group has the following lawsuits: Public Watchdogs vs. the California State Lands Commission, Public Watchdogs vs. NRC, and also Public Watchdogs vs. Southern CA Edison, SDG&E, the NRC, and Holtec. Now, they’ve discovered an alarming rule change that gives Edison the power to tear out the spent fuel pools – the last line of defense should there be an accident with the contents of any of the canisters.  Serious stuff, breaking news.
• LINK to Public Watchdogs Videos on San Onofre:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk-yvEVGbvhcAyACbQceSDw
• LINK to SanOnofreSafety.org and the work of Donna Gilmore.
• LINK to SanO whistleblower testimony on Nuclear Hotseat #373:  https://nuclearhotseat.com/2018/08/15/san-onofre-terrorists-plant-dirty-bombs-on-socal-beach-oh-wait-thats-edison-and-holtec/
  This is the episode with my favorite headline ever:TERRORIST GROUP PLANTS DIRTY BOMBS ON SoCal BEACH – Oh Wait, That’s EDISON and HOLTEC at SAN ONOFRE! Whistleblower Reveals NUCLEAR DISASTER NEAR-MISS w/RADIOACTIVE WASTE – NH #373

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe cares so little about nuclear bomb survivors – hibakusha – that he cribs from his Hiroshima speech to say virtually the exact same words to the people at Nagasaki.  Whatta guy! 

Info Links: 

• Is Nuclear Power the Solution to Climate Change? – Der Spiegel –  https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-great-energy-debate-is-nuclear-power-the-solution-to-climate-change-a-44490ad7-a151-4c4b-ad01-428a074607ea?sara_ecid=nl_upd_1jtzCCtmxpVo9GAZr2b4X8GquyeAc9&nlid=bfjpqhxz