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Ace Hoffman returns to talk about nuclear plants closing in California Nuclear waste canisters are like egg shells by proportion, having 5/8th of an inch thick steel outer layers His self-published book is available on his website in several resolutions, along with some videos and reports, and links to older essays         Ace Hoffman author of The Code Killers -              

 Kumar Sundaram is a weapons proliferation, and nuclear industry researcher who founded DiaNuke.org Canada, India, Pakistan and how corporations drive that arms race. The Candu, Regulatory Capture and SNC-Lavalin   article - Jaitapur Nuclear Project -   article - t         

Blake's 3 comedy albums - The Blake Album - 12 Years of Voicemails from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler - Stuffed Boy Find them on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, or Audible.com               

Jean Giroux first studied conventional psychology at the U of T and continues now at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Fransisco We talk about Psychology, Trump, OCD, forms of therapy, Dr Jordan Peterson and the recent loss of comedian Steven Brody Stevens   Jordan Peterson     The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure    

Arnie is a former nuclear industry executive, and engineer with more than 44 years of nuclear industry experience who became a whistleblower in 1990. Gundersen was a licensed Critical Facility Reactor Operator in the 70s Fukushima, Santa Anna, Three Mile Island, Politics, Regulators and the Fall-Out       Maggie@FairewindsEnergy.org McGill University in Montreal -   Northwestern in Chicago -   1500-word Truthout article -   Fairewinds staff developed a two minute animation in English, Japanese, German, and French -   San Francisco in a “TED-like” format. The other speaker was Erin Brockovich -   Arnie was featured in a video about steam generator vibration damage at the San Onofre nuclear power plant on the beach in California with the San Onofre reactor in the background. We changed the title of the old Beach Boys song -     Videos, and reports, including our reports and analysis of the disaster at Three Mile Island, are all searchable on the Fairewinds Energy Education website. We will be in Atlanta for a screening of Power Lines, the Plant Vogtle film on March 9 & 10, as well as to talk about Fukushima now and at the end of March. Arnie will be giving a keynote for several events commemorating the events at Three Mile Island in Harrisburg and at Penn State.  

From social media 1CaptD speaks at and has assembled research for presentations on nuclear in California We talk about the near miss at San Onofre nuclear power plant in California and its closure Ideologist and nuclear safety educator who helped get San Onofre nuclear reactor decommissioned          

Aaron berg is an author, broadcaster, actor and stand-up comedian Aaron berg and Gino Bisconte host the Podcast IN HOT WATER on Compound media - www.compoundmedia.com -                

Press Review with Dave Archer and Alex Sharp

Press Review with Dave Archer in Toronto and Ian Stolberg in Ottawa  

Press Review  Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Press Review Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Temporary Relief Assistant Co-Host Alex Sharp in Markham Ontario

Press Review Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Press Review Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

An oil spill, some politics, a bunch of news and how to make a proper Carbonara Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

 Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Kevin Webber with Host Dave Archer in Toronto and Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Dave Archer in Toronto With Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Dave Archer in Toronto With Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Host Dave Archer Guest Kevin Webber With Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

With Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

With Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

With Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

With Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Co-Host Ian Stolberg in Ottawa

Ace Hoffman joins us for an update from California Nuclear power, nuclear waste and public hearings. Ace Hoffman is a software developer with ~35 years experience. He creates educational software for adults. Several products are available at his web site:   His book on nuclear power, titled The Code Killers -   The last ten years of his blog is   Earlier blog entries are also available       Ace Hoffman rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com   Also, some free educational software is available through Google Play and iTunes Digital Slide Rule - a digital version of a slide rule. Includes a working nuclear bomb effects computer Pavlov's Dog - a digital simulation of a famous psychology experiment And one game, a free digital "spinner" - available for mobile devices

Louis Bertrand is a long time resident of Durham Region, east of Toronto, home to 9 currently working CANDU reactors. His background is electrical engineering, specializing in electronics and firmware, the software that gives electronic devices their smarts. He currently is a full time professor in the School of Science and Engineering Technology at Durham College, in Oshawa. He will be presenting as an intervenor at the public hearings for the Pickering nuclear station re-licensing application.             Tuesday is Rally Day! 12:30-1:30 approximately. Whenever the lunch break is called for by Mr. Binder, head of the hearing tribunal   promotes safer and cleaner alternatives to generation by fission or by combustion. They have commissioned studies into the effects of a Fukushima scale accident at the Pickering site, as well as studies challenging the accepted notions about nuclear power in Ontario.    Dr. Nancy Leveson has studied software safety and proposes an approach informed by system science to analyze the root causes of accidents, and hopefully prevent them. Of particular interest is her analysis of the fatal overdoses by the Therac-25, a radiation therapy machine produced in the 1980s by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL). Even if you don’t follow the details of the software flaws, the story is quite dramatic. This was a wake-up call to the medical industry that software safety cannot be analyzed the same as hardware - scroll to the bottom of the page and look for The Therac-25 Accidents. The other popular paper is “High Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software”, making the point that technology often moves ahead faster than scientific understanding, and bad things happen.   Dr. John Downer - Managing the credibility of nuclear reliability assessment in the wake of disaster And - On the institutional invisibility of nuclear disaster  Charles Perrow made a career of explaining why catastrophic accidents like airliner crashes and nuclear plant meltdowns should be considered normal. The following two articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are a harsh look at the denial surrounding Fukushima and the nuclear industry in general - From Hiroshima to Fukushima  And   Email Louis Bertrand - louis@bertrandtech.ca

The Pitfalls Of Disarmament Through Western Eyes          

What do baby teeth tell us about living near nuclear power plants? Joe is a health researcher who has served Radiation and Public Health Project since 1989. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health. His Books - Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy - Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link - Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment        

Comedian and Writer - Comedy Central - The Cracked Podcast - The Todd Glass Show - ABC Albums on iTunes - The Blake Album and 12 Years Of Voicemails From Todd Glass To Blake Wexler. Philadelphia Magazine named him as one of the country's funniest tweeters Follow @BlakeWexler Blake has appeared on the College Humor Live Tour, in The Rooftop Aspen Comedy Festival, Seattle International Comedy Competition, San Francisco Sketch Fest, and the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival - Also on Comedy Central's the Review and ABC's Watch Party            

Best known for sparking the global wave of Ginger Pride by marching hundreds of redheads through the streets of Edinburgh, Shawn Hitchins is an award-winning entertainer who has toured throughout Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. Winner of the 2018 Bronze, IPPY Authors Award For Humour      

Taking a closer look at comedy        

Why is Ontario nuclear expensive? This week we talk to Brennain Lloyd, Northwatch Project Coordinator - www.northwatch.org Northwatch is a member of MiningWatch Canada, Nuclear Waste Watch, and the Ontario Environment Network. Northwatch was founded in 1988      

Is Thailand far enough away from Trump?

Activist Janet McNeill gives an update as the date approaches for public hearings that seek to keep Pickering Nuclear Power Plant open during the rebuild of Darlington, yet another multi reactor plant, right at the doorstep of Canada's largest city. Janet McNeill is the co-ordinator for Durham Nuclear Awareness                    

Kevin Kamps joins us from New Mexico opposing The Holtec centralized interim storage facility CISF - A parking lot for spent fuel. Kevin Kamps has served as Radioactive Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear since 2007. Before that, he served in the same role for Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) since 1999. Kevin has also served as a board member of Don't Waste Michigan, representing his home town Kalamazoo chapter, since 1993. Likewise, he has served on the Nuclear-Free/Green Energy Great Lakes Task Force for more than two decades.        

Writer and interviewer Zach Ruiter is an accomplished anti-nuclear activist and most recently was the co-organizer of the campaign to shut down the uranium processing facility in Toronto at Dupont and Lansdowne We chat about Oil pipelines, Issues confronting our Indigenous people, nuclear and activists              

We talk this week about activism, Too Much Information and a uranium pellet factory at Dupont and Lansdowne in Toronto. Dr Jim Deutsch received his AB in analytical biology at Columbia, PhD in biochemistry at Caltech, and MD at Yale. He is on the faculty of the Dept. of Psychiatry at University of Toronto and at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute. He is interested in the challenges of understanding “the causes of the causes” of things.        by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, Alexey V. Nesterenko, Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger        

Shawn-Patrick Stensil is a Senior Energy Strategist leading Greenpeace Canada's energy transition campaign in Ontario. His work aims to remove regulatory barriers to renewable energy and expose the nuclear subsidies and sweetheart deals that stand in the way of Ontario’s energy transition. He is a frequent media commentator on nuclear and green energy issues and testifies regularly on nuclear policy and regulatory issues to Parliamentary committees and government agencies, such as the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Shawn-Patrick also works as a Radiation Protection Advisor for Greenpeace International and has participated in radiation monitoring work at Chernobyl, Fukushima. In 2009, he was named Best Environmental Activist by Toronto's Now Magazine. He has contributed to numerous Greenpeace International reports and co-authored a 2013 report with the Pembina Institute entitled Renewable is Doable: Affordable and flexible options for Ontario’s long term energy plan            

In 1973 Harvey Wasserman helped pioneer the global grass-roots movement against atomic reactors Helped coin the phrase - No Nukes - in 1974. He was a media spokesperson for the Clamshell Alliance, and helped organize mass demonstrations at Seabrook, N.H. against reactors being built there. His articles also appear at Commondreams, CounterPunch, HuffingtonPost, Buzzflash and others. Creator of Solartopia.org - He hosts the Green Power & Wellness Show Tuesdays at 5 EST on The Progressive Radio Network - prn.fm            

Professor author researcher activist and expert witness Dr Busby has been all over the world sampling, measuring and testifying on radioactive contaminates in the environment. Man made fission products attain direct contact with tissue once ingested, and damage can be transferred to offspring             Volume 1181 New York Academy of Sciences Alexey V Yablokov - Alexey V Nesterenko - Vassily B Nesterenko        

Richard Bramhall, founder of LLRC UK - An organization he founded in 1993. He describes nuclear issues in the U.K. Legal battles, Hinkley Point Nuclear Station, UK Nuclear Test veteran High Court appeal and uranium in our environment. Taking samples and making arguments