“SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy,” an extraordinary documentary by Mary Beth Brangan, James Heddle and Morgan Peterson, chronicles nearby residents’ discovery, after the 2011 Fukishima nuclear power plant’s triple meltdown, of the San Onofre reactor’s vulnerabilities: the facility lies in a seismic fault zone that could also see earthquakes and tsunamis.

Congressman Mike Levin and San Clemente Mayor Chris Duncan will be in attendance at the San Clemente Community Center on Saturday, Oct. 14, for the screening of a documentary that highlights local concerns about the decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Organized by San Clemente Green, event attendees will be able to watch SOS–The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy, which documents the work of Southern California activists in shutting down SONGS over a 12-year period.

Officials with the State of New Mexico continued their fight against a proposed storage site for spent nuclear fuel in southeast New Mexico during a Tuesday hearing before lawmakers in Carlsbad, and said the project could be challenged a second time in federal court.

Bethann Chambers, partner of former San Onofre Licensed Nuclear Operator and whistleblower James Chambers, talks about how her own and her husband's views on nuclear power have changed over their last 27 years of experience with Southern California Edison. She tells why she has decided to speak out on her concerns about the public safety risks to all of Southern California (and beyond) posed by Edison's failed nuclear reactor complex near San Clemente.

The past and the future collided at a virtual Public Participation Hearing held by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on July 25. The subject: the potential extension of operations at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.

Over 100 commenters spoke. The majority of them (by a 61 percent to 39 percent margin) vigorously opposed continued operations at the plant. As Justin LeBlanc of Sustainable Transit El Dorado put it, “The way of the future is not legacy monoliths.”

Every day, as they burn with nuclear fission at some 571 degrees Fahrenheit, some 430 nuke reactors roast our Earth. They irradiate and superheat our air, rivers, lakes and oceans. Six big reactors and their fuel pools now threaten an apocalypse in Ukraine. Pleas for United Nations intervention are increasingly desperate.

Trains remain suspended as experts evaluate San Clemente slope to determine extent of problem and possible fixes. A hillside continued to slide Friday above the railroad tracks at San Clemente, where a day earlier concerned transit officials suspended all passenger and freight train traffic on the only link between Orange and San Diego counties.

Holtec’s nuclear safety record is tarnished by numerous violations. Many arise from the company’s repeated failure to obtain approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) prior to design changes.