Ace Hoffman
@acehoffman
Old-style computer programmer... blogger about nukes (I knew three Manhattan Project scientists) acehoffman.blogspot.com Animator (mostly technical animations). Some comedy bits played on Dr. Demento & Pacifica stations ages ago. Comic-Con 25+yrs.
Now he's insisting EVERYBODY write in a new name for Lake Ontario. Personally, I'm amazed he's not calling it Lake Trump.
Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Comments due Aug. 24, 2026 re NRC-2026-2476-0002 which would reduce safeguards for spent nuclear fuel. Here's our comment and the link to make one yourself: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/08/comm...
Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are large, complex, risky, inefficient — and misnamed on purpose! acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/08/smal...
From a friend: "In the recent ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, SCOTUS handed the president new power to remove independent agency commissioners like the FTC and NRC without cause." Full opinion: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
I'm tired of the lies of the nuclear industry, and few lies are worse than the lie that the nuclear waste problem is solvable: My comment for the Southern California Edison Community Engagement Panel: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/06/sout...
That autographed hat front and center tells us all we need to know regarding what Marco Rubio thinks about before he opens his blowhole...
This beautiful but black smoke-belching behemoth is traveling around the country and will end up in Philadelphia for the nation's 250th anniversary. This picture is from when it was sitting still in Colorado for many years. For scale, the person in the photo (my wife) is 5 feet tall.
Also a great way to avoid the next MELTDOWN. (And there will be another... and another... and another... for those countries foolish enough to continue to use nuclear power.)
Current AI artwork all seems like cheap copies of something — because it is. I'm not sure if that will still be true once AI is regularly copying other AI art, but what about humans copying hand-crafted artwork & repurposing it for one's own use by photoshopping in new text? People think that's OK?
The Department of War Crimes will faithfully fulfill Trump's ILLEGAL ORDERS. Making them all just as culpable as he is. acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/04/pete...
My most recent blog is a short essay about war crimes: Pete Kegtrumpsbreath and the Department of War Crimes: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/04/pete...
My latest essay: We will haunt humanity forever with the nuclear waste we produce today: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-w...
In hindsight I don't think it was a good idea to hand the country over to a mad megalomaniac with a God-complex supported by true believers in Armageddon who then rely on Artificial Intelligence to decide how to start World War III, which responds: "Drop bombs on a school full of little girls."
All nuclear accidents (& nuclear operations, to a lesser degree) release hot isotopes. Even H3's so-called "weak" beta decay is ~3 orders of magnitude stronger than DNA's bonds. AI's delicate chips likewise are threatened by each nuclear accident. The damage is out of proportion to any benefit.
Our latest (very timely!) review of a very timely book: Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Book Review: The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy (2025) reviewed by Sharon and Ace Hoffman: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/03/book...
I wrote (and sold) my own interactive animation tool for the IBM-PC starting in 1984. It was very reliable with very smooth animation, but by the mid 1990s "Flash" finally had smooth animation too, so I switched, rewrote everything in Animate and have been using it ever since. I ctrl-shft-s often.
Book review: Return to Fukushima by Thomas A. Bass Bass interviewed people as they try to live and work in the contaminated areas around the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns. He found they were constantly recleaning, measuring radiation levels...and hoping. acehoffman.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...
While at COP30 don't be fooled by the nuclear promoters! The Fed's failure to secure California's (or anybody's) nuclear waste is because the task cannot be done safely at ANY price (so we need to stop making more). See the pdf attached here: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2025/10/shre...
This hearing starts at 9:00 am PST today (in about half an hour). This is my written statement to the California Coastal Commission. Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Stop the Extended Permitting of Diablo Canyon Nucl... acehoffman.blogspot.com/2025/11/stop...
My wife and I biked to the C'bad No Kings rally and rode past most of it at one point. I think that's a good estimate of the # of people. The picture on the left was taken early on; over the next hour PCH got A LOT busier (same intersection)! Totally peaceful of course (tell Mike Johnson!).
I wish you were right. But after fighting throughout WWII, the biggest war in history, Eisenhower was beyond horrified by the crimes he found at the concentration camps. It was beyond words. Have you cloistered yourself from the images of returning Ukraine POWs? & Putin has plenty of Polonium-210.
YES on 50 and YES Gavin Newsom is what we need right now! Okay, so I don't like him either, for all the reasons this guy listed AND that Newsom is keeping Diablo Canyon Nuclear Waste Generating Station & Meltdown Risk open. It should have shut down completely by now. But THANK YOU GOV. NEWSOM!!!
Meanwhile Trump wants yet another monument to him, this time a gigantic marble arch. I suggest this will be perfect to top it off...