California fire near nuclear accident site

IMO this is the laziest kind of fearmongering. There's nothing wrong with being skeptical of government claims, especially ones that are unverifiable to the average person (are there WMDs in Iraq? Who killed JFK? What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? etc). However, this is not one of those unverifiable things. You can get a geiger counter on Amazon for less than $200.

It seems, well, socially irresponsible for the Physicians for Social Responsibility to make statements about radioactive contamination that contradict both government and independent tests.

I don't think it's lazy, I think it's intentional. The cleanup efforts have been in the planning phase for 22 years, so perhaps some fear mongering to drum up more public outrage/outcry is what needs to happen to make someone do something.

Here's how you know they aren't just reporting but have an angle:

"...one of three major, climate change-charged conflagrations now afflicting California"

You know it's climate change charged? As in for sure, have evidence?

It is pretty hard to burn 100000 acres of California without hitting a toxic waste cleanup site of some kind or other, unfortunately.