How to Help

Here is a list of suggestions of what you can do to help improve our safety against the risk of nuclear disaster in our communities.

• What you can do to help
• Handouts to share with your community
• Follow this website. Enter email address on right column of this screen.
• Contact us if you would like to be more involved.

Resources

• Search official federal publications from all three government branches − GPO Federal Digital System (FDsys), e.g., Federal Register.
• GAO Organizational Telephone Directory
• State and Federal Elected Officials
  • City, County, State and Federal Elected Officials contact information
  • U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works has Senate oversite of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  CA Senator Barbara Boxer is the current Chairman.
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
  • NRC Commissioners contact information
  • NRC Public Meeting Schedule
  • NRC Subscribe to NRC E-Mail Updates
  • NRC Telephone Directory
  • NRC Legal Authority ML13274A489 
  • Schedule for Rulemakings to Amend Part 72.214 for Dry Storage Casks
  • NRC Commission Meeting Webcast Information
  • NRC hearing dockets and discovery materials for each nuclear plant
  • NRC Hearing Opportunities and License Applications
  • NRC Fukushima Lessons – Status of Implementation
  • NRC Organization and Functions
  • NRC U.S. Operating Reactors – links to details on each reactor
  • NRC U.S. Decomissioning sites – links to details on each non-operating reactor and other radioactive facilities
  • 72.214 List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks
  • NRC Dry Spent Fuel Storage Designs Approved for General Use (not up to date, but contains links)
  • Spent Fuel Storage Licensing (Site-Specific and General Licenses)
  • NRC Approved Applications for Power Uprates
  • Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) used by the Spent Fuel Project Office
  • Part 71—Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material
  • Part 72—Licensing Requirements for the Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive Waste, and reactor-related greater than Class C Waste
  • Governing legislation for nuclear power and waste
  • NRC SONGS [San Onofre] Special Oversite Public Documents
  • NRC SONGS [San Onofre] Steam Generator Tube Degradation
  • NRC Information Digest, 2013–2014 (statistics and downloadable spreadsheets)
  • NRC Region IV Organization
  • NRC Region IV Organization Chart 1/31/2012 
  • Former NRC Managers now at Talisman
• Media
  • KPBS – San Diego Staff Directory
  • Radio & Television News Association of SoCal — Station Contacts
  • Post your event on KPFK-LA radio station
• Western Governors Association 
  • Western Governors’ Association Policy Resolution 2017-05 Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel
• California State Government
  • Contact State Elected Officials
  • State Government Phone Directory
  • State Worker Salary Database
  • State Government Executive Organization Chart
  • State Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee
• California Energy Commission (CEC)
  • 2015 Integrated Energy Policy Report
  • CEC phone directory
  • CEC nuclear contact: Danielle.Mills@energy.ca.gov
• Federal Shipments of Transuranic Radioactive Waste in California
  • California’s Policy on TRU Waste Shipments: Since 1989, California’s Governor designated the California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) as the lead state agency for planning the proposed DOE shipments of TRU waste in California. The Energy Commission is responsible for coordinating activities of other state agencies that will be involved with the WIPP shipments. These agencies include the California Highway Patrol (CHP), the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), the California Department of Public Health – Radiologic Health Branch, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Department of Fish and Game, the California Department of Transportation, and the California Public Utilities Commission Rail Safety Branch. The Energy Commission and these agencies have prepared several background papers and provide comments on WIPP transportation safety issues and policies.
  • Along with ten other western states, California has been actively involved since 1989 in the efforts of the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) and DOE to cooperatively develop a comprehensive safety program for shipments to WIPP. New Mexico and Idaho co-chair the WGA Technical Advisory Group for WIPP Transport. As part of the WGA-DOE safety program, the Energy Commission has coordinated California’s input to federal plans and policies for these shipments. The Energy Commission has prepared background information to inform Californians of DOE’s shipment plans, the WGA WIPP transport accident prevention and emergency preparedness program, and California’s issues and concerns.
• California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
  • California Public Utilities Commissioners
  • CPUC Nuclear Power website
  • CPUC Decommissioning Proceeding (A1412007)
  • CPUC Public Meeting videos
  • CPUC Employee Phone Directory
  • CPUC Division of Ratepayer Advocates
  • 

    Former CPUC President Michael Peevey

    CPUC I1210013 Proceeding −Steam Generator Order Instituting Investigation (OII) documents, rulings, etc. − who pays and how much?

    • Proposed settlement agreement, April 3, 2014
    • “I don’t have to answer your goddamn questions. Now shutup..”, CPUC President Michael Peevey responds when Attorney Michael Aguire questioned the settlement and what Peevey knew.
      • See related story at UTSanDiego.
      • Download Peevey.mp3 for ringtone.

 

• Money in Politics
  • Money in State Politics: FollowtheMoney.org
    
  • State Political Contributions, California Secretary of State
    • Edison International & Affiliated Entities 2013: >$606,000
    • PG&E Corporation & Affiliated Entities 2013: >$2.4 million

• Find and track legislation  LegiScan.com

• International nuclear facilities
  • IAEA International database of nuclear power reactors
  • Nuclear reactors and industry around the world
  • Nuclear utilities around the world
  • Photos of nuclear facilities around the world (www.nukeworker.com)

• Nuclear waste management companies and related links
• Western Governors’ Association (WGA)
  • WGA2017JuneAttendees.pdf
  • WGA2017JuneAttendees.xlsx
• FDA Food Guidance Documents

• Code of Federal Regulations

Know Your Rights

• Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (California)

§ 11120. Findings and short title

It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business and the proceedings of public agencies be conducted openly so that the public may remain informed.

In enacting this article the Legislature finds and declares that it is the intent of the law that actions of state agencies be taken openly and that their deliberation be conducted openly.

The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.

Cal. Gov. Code § 11124.1.(a): Any person attending an open and public meeting of the state body shall have the right to record the proceedings with an audio or video recorder or a still or motion picture camera in the absence of a reasonable finding by the state body that the recording cannot continue without noise, illumination, or obstruction of view that constitutes, or would constitute, a persistent disruption of the proceedings.