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Spartan Health Regimen - get Lean, Strong & Fit the Modern Spartan Way
Attention: Health & Fitness Fanatics
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From the Desk of Bova;
Wednesday 10.37am
Life is too short to be average.
But guess what . . . most health, diet and training programs are all aimed at the AVERAGE person. The kind of person who doesn’t really want to change the way they eat or do any real exercise in the first place.
However, if you want to be more than average, if you've been searching for something different. A program for those after hard-core health, diet and training, then taking the next minute to read this site and sign up for instant access to my FREE Video may be the smartest thing you ever do!
And right now I'm searching for a few more who have what it takes, who want to be elite and are tough enough to walk the road less travelled, what we call . . . "the Spartan Path".
Firstly, congratulations on finding this website, because my work was never intended to be for the mass market. In fact it's been a closely guarded underground secret for a long time. Many of my students are very careful who they talk to about the Spartan Health Regimen program.
For the last 10 years I've been showing select people how to transform themselves into Modern Spartan Warriors.
Understand that being a Modern Spartan is NOT about dressing up in armour or believing you're an ancient Greek warrior. It's about becoming a 'Spartan on the Inside'. It's about rejecting a lazy, soft out-of-shape life . . . and embracing a different philosophy of eating, training and living. Why? Because to a Modern Spartan the rewards are worth it!
And being a Modern Spartan will REWARD you in the following ways;
No.1 Give you Real Health. – Spartans are after radiant health! Clear skin, bright eyes, limitless raw energy, bones and teeth like concrete, no pains or sickness, how to become ageless. Hell, you may never have to see the inside of a doctors or dentists office again.
No.2 – Get you performing at your ultimate athletic potential. Spartans are athletes. Training like a modern Spartan will increase your performance. You will become a lean, mean athlete with a physical body that functions with super strength, stamina, endurance, energy and power.
No.3 –Get you looking good!Spartans are proud of their physiques. You may not be able to control the genetics you were given, but you can control your physical appearance. You will burn off your extra body-fat fast to get lean. Then add shape with dense functional muscle, including a ripped set of six pack abs. Add these together and you be looking awesome. This summer you can be proud to take your shirt off at the beach.
The Spartan Diet is based on our true biological needs. I studied the diets of primates in the wild which are 97-99% genetically the same as us with an almost identical digestive system.
But that's not the whole diet answer . . .
I also studied in detail the diets of 5 Primitive Tribes from around the world, who were considered to be the strongest, healthiest and most disease resistant peoples on earth.
Added to this was the diet knowledge from the ancient Spartans themselves. When you combined the best knowledge from these Warrior Tribes with our biological needs you create the ultimate diet for real health and performance. – (Best of all the Spartan Diet is NOT a bland, restricted bodybuilding type diet - once you lose your addictions to modern junk foods, it is one of the best tasting and enjoyable diets on the planet - because real foods designed by nature to be good for you are also designed to taste good! It just makes sense.)
But you ain't heard nothing yet . . .
Spartan training is aimed at producing Real World Strength & Power, along with Natural Muscle Development and superb overall Conditioning & Endurance. To achieve this we combine lost training secrets of the ancient Greeks and old time Strength Athletes with endurance and fitness secrets of ancient and modern elite soldiers.
There is a lot of information covered in my Spartan program, but I get asked all the time;
"What's the #1 thing people can do right now that will make the biggest and fastest difference for their health, performance and physique".
That's a great question and I've revealed the answer on my new FREE Video. This Video will reveal the breakthrough secret you can apply right NOW to boost your health and performance levels through the roof.
WARNING: But if you're NOT interested in at least one of the topics listed below then this Video is not be for you, I suggest continuing to surf the web an 'easier' program, there are plenty of them around. Come back when you get sick of programs that don't work and don't deliver and you are ready to go SPARTAN.
But if you ARE interested in ANY of the following topics;
1) Hard-core Health and Diet,
2) Real World Functional Strength,
3) Elite Fitness, Conditioning and Endurance,
4) Natural Physique development,
5) A Spartan Lifestyle & Philosophy,
6) Mental Toughness,
7) No B.S. Self-defence,
. . . . and if you dream of standing out from the crowd, both physically and mentally, if you have been searching for a program, a different path or way-of-life that will finally change the way you look and feel, and if the last damn thing you want, is to go through life being only average, then I invite you to sign up and get your own instant personal copy of my new Video now.
*PLUS . . . . as a SPECIAL LIMITED BONUS!!!
You'll also get the completely uncensored 1st Chapter of the hardcore SPARTAN HEALTH REGIMEN program as another extra-Special FREE BONUS!
This FREE 1st Chapter instant PDF download will reveal the 3 Most Important Spartan Principles and much more . . . plus give you a taste of my unconventional style and methods (for your eyes only - please keep private).
And you'll get to trial my very private & personal Spartan eLetter Membership to receive EXTRA Spartan Diet & Training Secrets and some of the most motivational, controversial, eye-opening, life-changing, hard-core information on health, diet, strength & conditioning, training, mental toughness, Spartan living, regular news, updates, Q&A and a heck of a lot more . . . again, also 100% FREE . . . unsubscribe any time 24hrs/7days.
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P.S. Sounds too good to be true, right?
I don’t blame you for being sceptical, there seems to be a never ending stream of false, fake, phoney, rip-offs out there, especially on the internet. But you'd be making a big mistake and missing a great opportunity if you assumed this was one of them. One of the reasons I've created this Special FREE Video is so you can use the #1 Spartan Secret yourself and then judge if I'm the real deal or not.
So, what have you got to lose? You risk nothing!!!!
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"Your program helped me lose 5 inches off my waist. I also lost 10kgs of fat and have gained 3kgs of muscle all in only 4 months. . . . this program is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Thankyou for your wonderful gift of health and well being." Nathan Anderson Craigieburn, VIC Australia | "Just got your program, started on the Spartan diet and have lost 8 pounds in a week and a half! I wasn't in bad shape before, but your material seems to be just the ticket for moving from OK to exceptional." Craig Coletta Baltimore, MD USA | "I am in the early stages of the program but have already produced some exceptional results. I have lost 16 pounds or more of fat . . . my friends have noticed the difference in my energy, physical appearance and mental outlook - they think I am using some special drug or diet pill." Sean Chester Alberta, Canada | "I’m 17 and I’ve been on your program for about a year. I’ve gone from the fat soft looking kid to a lean bastard with a six-pack and can lift a lot heavier weights. I’m extremely happy with the program" Mitch Frost Christchurch, New Zealand
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"This is the best & most complete course I’ve bought since the ‘Charles Atlas’ course in 1955." Rod Houldershaw West Ryde, NSW Australia | "Thankyou for a program worth it's weight in gold. I read it completely on the first day" Gareth Packer Aberdeen, UK | "I've been on the program for 2 weeks and I dropped 1/2 a stone just like that. I'm loving the training and can't get enough of it." Eli Nugent Hertfordshire, UK | "My husband and I have been Spartans for just over a week now and are loving it. We feel both mentally and physically tougher, stronger and healthier." Bob&Jenny Kettler Oklahoma City, OK USA
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"I did the Rapid Fat Loss part first for about 2 weeks and lost most of my bodyfat. I had about 6 kgs of bodyfat and in the 2 weeks I lost 4 ½ kgs. Now I have put that back on in muscle following the Spartan diet and muscle gaining techniques. Overall I recommend everyone should at least get the pack and read it and apply at least some of the principles."
Rodney Read Parklea, NSW Australia
| "After only a few weeks on the Spartan diet, I had lost 10lbs, while making a 30% increase in my squat weight, using only the basic strength and power workouts . . . I feel I am in the best shape of my entire life." Tyler Mossman Pittsburgh, PA USA | "It's now been 3 weeks since I started living the Spartan lifestyle. My health and overall performance have improved so much that my wife (who originally laughed and made fun of my new diet) is now eating according to the Spartan Health Regime." Benjamin Stein San Diego, CA USA | "Now that I am a Spartan I train harder, faster and smoother than ever. I've already lost 5lbs . . . I feel more powerful, like a car that has been tuned right." Joshua O'Brien Gatlinburg, TN USA |
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"Stronger & Healthier in Just 7 Days!" "Thank you for this video Bova. I was very sceptical but i did exactly what you said and I am already feeling stronger and healthier than ever before in my life after only 7 days . . . my training partner thinks I'm on steroids which just made me laugh . . . " Ian Johnstone Manhattan Beach CA, USA
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Exponentially grow your reach, profits and passive income potential through teleseminars
Give me 90 minutes of your time and I will show you how to take whatever it is you are good at... (you don't need to be a total expert, just know what you are talking about)... and turn it into a teleseminar that has people clawing over each other to get their hands on it, has people paying good money to participate in it and continues to generate money via the sale of recordings long after you've launched.
Hi,
My name is Stacey Morgenstern and for the last several years I've been doing some interesting things with teleseminars which led me to realize that a lot of people are not taking advantage of this simple, easy way to build client lists, bring in cash and create a product that lasts forever.
For example, I made $54,000 with teleseminars in 9 months… working just a couple of hours per week and that's with having no clue what I was doing when I first started. I have since mastered the process and have now created a simple, effective system that I can teach you in a very short amount of time, so that you too can put the expansive reach of modern communication networks to work.
When my first teleseminar (the one where I didn't really know what I was doing yet) raked in $6000 in one day, I thought it was just good luck….but then I enlisted a “test” group of 25 clients to do exactly the same thing again.
Olga, one of my clients, had 107 people sign up to her very first live teleseminar at $29 per person. $2889 for a 90-minute teleseminar… How’s that for a day’s work?
How do I know it will work for you? To date over 200 people like Olga have replicated this same SIMPLE process to make way more money, attract exponentially more clients and enjoy a bunch of time off.
If you want a proven step-by-step method for working less and making more simply by talking about what you LOVE then this easy to follow guide is for you.
It starts at the very beginning and includes the essentials all the way through a little known secret for gathering meaningful testimonials, how to generate passive income from recordings and of course everything you need to know to automate your sales process (so you can sip Margaritas on the beach while you passively generate cash).
Want to know the #1 Secret to making more money with less effort?
The following will completely revolutionize the way you do business.
If you want to make lots of money, you must NEVER, EVER get paid based only on hours worked. You will always reach a ceiling with this approach, since as l last I checked there were only 24 hours in a day. That means that by working hourly and having to show up in person every time you want to make money, you will always reach a limit as to how many people you can help, and how much money you can make.
The #1 secret to making more money with less effort is to generate... passive income.
….And teleclasses are my favorite strategy for doing just that. Here’s why…
7 Reasons Why You Should Do Teleclasses No Matter What Niche You're In:
- Profit margin is nearly 100%
- Produce it once….sell it forever. You can record your teleclass and sell the MP3 over and over again or re-purpose it into an ebook, special report or home study kit available internationally.
- Deliver to many….never to one.
- You and your clients can participate from anywhere in the world as long as you can find a phone connection.
- Set up the sale of your recordings to work on autopilot.
- Incredibly low start up costs. You can try this out even while you are working another job without any risk.
- Doesn’t require “memorizing” or standing in front of an audience (you get to do it in the comfort of your home or office!)
Not convinced you can pull it off?
STOP:
YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT SOMETHING
FOR A MINUTE…
Yes, it can be scary to try new things, but I'm going to break down the process for you! (That's why I'm here.)
Do you want to know:
- How to create a teleclass topic that's guaranteed to sell?
- How to turn your teleclass into a product that generates quick, consistent money & establishes you as a leading expert?
- How and where to market your teleclass so people show up, happily pay and refer you to others?
- Ways to avoid fatal mistakes that will save you money and protect your reputation?
- How to automate the process so you can make money while playing with your kids, strolling on the beach, or even sleeping?
If you’re thinking “I don’t have the right equipment….”
The "special" equipment I used to create $54,000 in under 9months includes:
1. A decent phone
2. An internet connection
That's it! Think you can handle this "special" equipment list?
One of the coolest things about this process is that there's practically no start-up cost, so you can try this out with NO RISK.
But chances are, if you use even just a few of these secrets in your business, you'll make significantly more money than you are making right now.
So if you want to put passive income and the vast reach of modern communications to work for you, I'm happy to get you started.
Click on the button below for immediate access:
The primary focus here is to help you expand your audience, work once, and then get paid over and over again.
Here’s what I have for you:
- How to use teleclasses to build a list of prospects (lead generation.)
- How to set up your teleclass even if you're a newbie with no tech knowledge.
- How to accept payment for your teleclass automatically.
- How to word the exact right topic to have your audience salivate with anticipation.
- My 7 step formula for writing a teleclass with explosive impact.
- The most reliable free telephone bridge line sources and the ONE you should NEVER use.
- Fool-Proof Recording ~ avoid the nightmare of losing your recording. Don't be a victim of flawed technology!
- The Pricing Psychology that expert marketers use.
- 10+ Ways To Market your teleclass on and offline.
- How to GIVE your teleclass away for FREE and still get paid (I know~it seems like a baffling concept, but I've got a great strategy to share with you.)
- A seductive sample letter I send to Joint Venture partners.
- 3 Ways To Publish your enthralling audio recording.
- How to get the whole process on auto-pilot so you can make money while getting on with the rest of your life.
- 10 Do's and Don'ts that will save you hours of work, protect your property, and make you sound like a pro.
I'm also throwing in some bonuses!
Bonus #1: A recording of the call.
Bonus #2: An easy to follow 33 page workbook and simple checklist to get you started launching your own teleclasses. This includes each action you need to successfully launch your teleclass and make money passively.
Bonus #3: Three scripted emails that I have used to effectively get people hooked, refer others, and get raving testimonials.
Bonus #4: The 10 Principles of Persuasion and how to use them to generate large profits .
Bonus #5: Just to be absolutely sure that no stone is left unturned in this process, I'm throwing in a recording of an actual 75 minute Q&A session for FREE! This is like sitting in on a private session with me. (Value $189)
How much will it cost you?
Well, how much is a tool capable of making $54,000 in well under a year worth to you?
Your investment is: $147.
Which includes ALL the bonuses.
By following the basics outlined in Killer Teleseminar Secrets, you will EASILY make your entire investment back the FIRST TIME you put this process to the test (The testimonials here back me up on this).
Simply click on the buy now button below to download the audio mp3 (with player), the pdf workbook and the rest of the bonus materials. It will only take 5 minutes to download.
This is really a no-brainer. If you've considered doing teleclasses or developing a passive revenue source, this is the place to start. I am well on my way to making over six figures this year with teleclasses alone, simply by applying these exact strategies and working very few hours. Now I'm passing on many of my best secrets to you.
You can easily replicate this process…. with ZERO RISK!
My only regret is that I didn’t do this earlier.
54,000 in 9 months translates to $200 a day in passive revenue—that means I was making money while doing something else. (By the way, this year, I have DOUBLED that number PER DAY simply by replicating the launch process)
How much is it costing you today to procrastinate on something that is so logically beneficial to your business?
So how 'bout it?
Let me share my Killer Teleseminar Secrets with you.
Don't let this opportunity go. Here is your chance to get your marketing on auto-pilot, make way more money and help bunches of people...while you relax!
Exponentially increase the size of your income funnel by making anyone in the world a potential customer.
How would it make a difference in your life if you could do some initial part-time work to make continual full-time money? (This could easily mean an extra $10,000, $20,000, $50,000 or more each year)
This is an opportunity to learn proven killer teleseminar secrets.
Already do teleseminars?
If you’ve been doing teleseminars on your own and think you’ve got it all figured out, good for you! But I’m willing to bet you could be getting much better results. One trick from this teleclass can translate into thousands in extra sales.
Look inside the 33 page Killer Teleseminar Secrets workbook.
Killer Seminar Secrets of a Teleclass Diva
A Step-by-Step Guide To exploding your client base, creating red hot products that sell over and over again and making full-time money with part-time work.
Table of Contents
PART 1: THE BASICS
- The equipment you will need (including best brand names)
- Setting up your bridge-line...easily
- How to record your teleclass...reliabily
- I've got the recording...now what? (how to get it out there)
- Credit cards, shopping carts (getting paid)
- Automating the thank you email
PART 2: TELESEMINAR CREATION
- Viability: How to find a topic that sells itself
- Pricing: The psychology of what to charge
- Irresistible Teaser copy
- 7 step proven formula for writing a gripping teleclass
- Value boosting secrets the pros use
PART 3: MARKETING & PROMOTING
- Going live online internationally!
- Write the attention grabbing email that gets read
- Strategize a structured easy to follow marketing schedule
- Create a seductive email campaign
PART 4: MAKING MONEY WHILE YOU SLEEP
- Drive gobs of traffic to your website
- Convert prospects to buyers through the science of wording
- Expand your reach exponentially via joint ventures
- Make another sweet offer no one can refuse!
- Market online and offline (covering all your bases)
EXTRA'S:
How to Protect Your Material from thievery
DO'S AND DON'TS you need to know
12 PRINCIPLES OF PERSUASION
Plus my personal handy check-list so you don't skip any steps. All of this for a mere 90 minutes of your time?
There’s no excess here, I’ve dug down deep into my marketing bag o’ tricks and pulled out all the stops…so what you’ve got here is the boiled down, comprehensive, yet easy to implement step-by-step formula for working once and getting paid over and over again across a lifetime.
Don't get intimidated, I’m going to make this whole process super simple.
Ready to take things to the next level?
Click the "Buy Now" button below for immediate access.
When you register you'll immediately get the 90 minute audio download explaining to you every step of your launch, you’ll get the bonus 90 minute Q&A session, PLUS the entire 33 page workbook.
Now you might be wondering…
"Is There a Guarantee?"..... Well YES!
60 Day 100% Money-Back Guarantee
Download Killer Teleseminar Secrets and listen to the audios, go through all the written material, try out the ideas to create your own teleclass and recordings for the next 60 days. If you're not completely impressed by what you learn, I'll cheerfully refund your purchase in full.
Ready to put this system to work for you?
One last thing…
You Must Meet One Very Important Qualification
“Insider Secrets” Disclosure: You will be privy to many of my best secrets and proprietary methods that have taken me years to put together. This is how I make my living and feed my family. You must agree never to publish, resell or distribute the information you receive in any way.
The content in the audio downloads as well as the workbook is copyrighted and not for resale or redistribution in any way. This material is some of the most advanced and confidential I've ever shared –That's why you'll also be required to agree to a binding non-disclosure agreement. So, if you are even remotely considering taking this material and reselling it for some purpose other than putting it to work for your own business - let me spare you an enormous amount of grief, headaches and legal expenses - don't sign up!
However, on the other hand if you're the kind of person who is willing to follow a simple plan (I’m going to tell you EXACTLY what to do and when), this is an incredible chance to revolutionize the way you make money. Don’t put off something that is so obviously great for your business.
It’s not hard and it’s not complicated. This program was designed to lead you through every step to keep you from guessing.
What’s the risk?
None. Especially because of my guarantee.
Ready for everyday to be payday?
Set it up now.
Still Have Questions? Here are a few Frequently Asked Questions answered:
QUESTION #1 - Can I still succeed selling information online if I don't have a big mailing list or experience?
A: Absolutely. I started my entire business just four years ago with a mailing list of 150 people. I too was worried that I had missed the boat on big profits, and yet here I am, making more money, having more fun, and enjoying more time off then I ever have at any job in my entire life.
That being said, it is competitive out there, so you'll want to innovate your offering in a way that is unique and irresistible. How can you do it better than everyone else? This is something that we talk about a lot in the Mastermind group (email Stacey if you'd like more info about the next Mastermind group)
Creating your own teleseminar costs you almost nothing to try, so what have you got to lose?
I mean what other kind of business could you start with a few bucks, that has the potential to do, literally, thousands.
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QUESTION #2 - Okay so is this a good package for a newbie?
A: Yes. This was intentially created for newbie's, and yet veterans too will certainly find more than a few gold nuggets of wisdom to improve conversion and increase profits.
Plus, you'll have the opportunity to join a mastermind group so you can get the support to launch your teleseminar in real time. This will include a week by week roadmap so you know what to focus on and can get feedback on your work as you produce.
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QUESTION #3 - This sounds like a lot of material -- would I get overwhelmed?
A. This is comprehensive. However, I'm also known for making things simple. I have a knack for breaking things down into easy to implement steps.
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QUESTION #4 - Can't I just learn all this stuff on my own?
A. Maybe. But how long will it take you to research everything you need to know... how many hours will it take to weed out the crap from the good stuff, and actually get on with creating your money making product?
Why gamble with doing it yourself? Here you don't have to re-invent the wheel. I will save you pain by making it a smooth flowing and enoyable process. I've already done the research for you and consolidated the essential steps that work into a simple system that can be easily duplicated. Learn from someone who has and is still doing it successfully!
Click on the Get Started button below to grab everything before the price goes up!
Here is what people are saying about this part-time way to make full-time money
“107 people registered for my first teleclass simply by following the instructions in Killer Teleseminar Secrets. The workbook alone is priceless. Have already added over $10,000 to my bottom line in post launch sales and I’m on my way to launching teleclass #2 now.”
Olga Aura, Raw Foods Expert, Motivational Speaker
"17 new sales this morning since I woke up. The scripts you included in the workbook were fantastic. I LOVED the check-list (it has a permanent home on my desk.) But the very best part for me... was the "Making money while you sleep" marketing strategy and follow-ups. This is exactly what I needed….and it works.”
Mindy Kuecher, Holistic Health Counselor
“So well organized even a newbie with no clue can feel confident making money with teleclasses. Stacey laid out crucial steps to walk me through the process. No need to guess. It’s all here.”
Myra Mastos, Integrative Health Counselor
"Just the 33 page workbook alone is worth the cost... I would highly recommend this class to other professionals who are interested in reaching out to more clients. Those who don’t take this class are losing time and money."
Christy Payne Bertolino, Certified Massage Therapist
www.health-sci.com
"Killer Teleseminar secrets is a steal! This teleclass and workbook will save you literally hours and hours of research so you can cut to the chase and start making money NOW"
Julie Spero, MBA, NC
Treasurer National Assoc. of Nutrition Professionals
Worth every cent and a lot more...
KTS helped me avoid some very expensive mistakes! The clear, concise steps as well as invaluable resources helped me answer questions that I never seemed to have enough time to research on my own - such as: "Which teleconference service do I use?", "What are some of the key pieces I have to have in place to ensure my teleclass runs smoothly and delivers what I promise?" and "How do I sell it???"
Simla Somturk, Holistic Health/ Nutrition Counselor
"Incredibly thorough yet makes creating and marketing teleclasses EASY. Anyone interested in doing teleclasses successfully should take this class. It will save so much time and effort, plus passive income—like free money!"
Laura Ely, Holistic Health Counselor
"Income potential skyrocketing...
The 33 page step by step workbook that explains exactly how to do teleclasses is a great addition to the live class, the recording, AND the Q&A session! Very thorough and generous information. The price of the class was beyond worth it.
Rose L. Passafero, Public Speaker
"I would have paid double for this information. Already launching my first teleclass. I am getting heart palps from the excitement. Signing up with your biz coaching program and teleclasses has been the best decision I've ever made to move my practice forward."
Simone Turner, Nutritionist for Women with Fibroids
"Finally, a step-by-step formula that leaves nothing out.
I feel 100% confident that I can now pull off a fabulous teleclass that sells. I have never gotten so much valuable detail from one coach. I would recommend this class to anyone who wants the Step by Step Success Formula for Teleclasses.”
Kelly Lang, Holistic Health Counselor
"The value FAR surpasses the cost. The workbook you created is masterful... you really did share all of your success secrets and took the guessing out of "how to" plan a teleclass. No more overwhelm because you broke down the steps so clearly that now I have the confidence to move forward. Anyone who wants passive income MUST purchase this class."
Jodi Krizer Graber, Marketing/ PR expert
"BEST purchase I've made in the last YEAR... I had been doing my own work around the same topic for 3 years so I was really hesitant about spending the money. I was BLOWN AWAY. This is not the same old, same old. This was the best purchase I've made for my business in the last year."
Kristen Domingue, CHHC, Nutrition and Wellness Coach
"Right on the money and worth every penny. If you are considering this teleclass and worried if you can "pull it off" let me tell you that this is the essential step by step guide to lay the foundation for a progressively increasing income - effortlessly. I had no idea where to start, and this teleclass has already saved me hours of time, eliminate a lot of stress and confusion in trying figuring it out on my own."
Emily Butler, Family Nutrition Expert
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Small nuclear reactors can range in power output from less that one up to several hundred megawatts.
More recently, prospects for a so-called nuclear renaissance have revitalized speculation about the design and use of small reactors in Canada. For example, in an interview with CBC News, in February, 2009, Premier Brad Wall said “... he hoped Saskatchewan could play a role developing small reactor technology. He went on to say the provincial government might be able to devote some resources to research and development in that area.”
A report by Saskatchewan’s Uranium Development Partnership, (UDP) included an upbeat statement that “because they require little or no refueling and produce both heat and electricity, small reactors could eventually compete with small-scale diesel, oil and gas generation as a power alternative in remote sites.” The report went on to state that, “Saskatchewan has the opportunity to participate in this market by partnering with a commercial technology developer on a demonstration project.”
Ah, but–the history of small reactors in Canada includes some very expensive “lemons,” something that should give pause to anyone seriously contemplating getting into that kind of business.
As an example, one of those not so successful small reactor efforts was the SLOWPOKE 3, a brainchild of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. (AECL).
The Slowpoke became an issue for me in 1986, when I was a spokesperson for the Concerned Citizens’ of Manitoba (CCM.), Canada, a nuclear waste watchdog group. After years of our lobbying, the Manitoba provincial government was poised to pass a bill which would prohibit the burial or long-term storage of high level nuclear waste in the Province.
AECL officials were quite upset over the upcoming legislation, one of their concerns being that the bill contained a clause which prohibited the storage of high-level nuclear waste originating from outside the Province for more than seven days. This, according to the AECL testimony, would result in its inability to store the waste from its new "Safe Low Power Kritical (sic) Experiment," (a.k.a. SLOWPOKE) at its Whiteshell, Manitoba based nuclear research station.
The SLOWPOKE 3 was to be a small (10 Megawatt) heat and isotope producing nuclear reactor that AECL was actively marketing around the world, even though it was still in the early stages of untested design. AECL maintained that the pending legislation would force it to set up waste storage facilities elsewhere at additional cost, and that Manitoba would lose "commercial benefits" from the SLOWPOKE 3 program.
It appeared that AECL planned to retrieve the waste from all the SLOWPOKE 3 reactors that it expected to sell in Canada, and abroad, and bring it to Manitoba for storage! Nevertheless, the Manitoba legislation was enacted into law.
However, that did not stop AECL from promoting its mini-nuke.
I recalled reading an article in the Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, Leader of June 15, 1982, headlined "Nuclear Furnaces Could Soon Be Heating Your House." It went on to describe the small, unattended, SLOWPOKE reactor which could heat a building and require refueling only once every five years.
"Safe Low Power Kritical Experiment!" It was fascinating that AECL chose to use the word "Safe," to describe its new "baby" reactor. It left me with more apprehensions than I already had about its large power reactors, with the acronym, "CANDU," which lacked that vital word “Safe.” Would they now change CANDU to "SCANDU"?
Also, I wondered why the use of the word "experiment." After all, who wants to buy a radioactive "experiment" to heat their community centre or other buildings?
A demonstration 2-megawatt version of the SLOWPOKE 3 reactor began very low-power operation at AECL's Pinawa, Manitoba, Whiteshell research station on July 15, 1987. But well before that small demonstration model was up and running, the Crown Corporation was already actively marketing the non-existent 10 mw version in such places as China, Korea, Europe and Canada's own Northwest Territory.
By January, 1988, AECL had signed a memorandum of agreement with Hungary for a potential SLOWPOKE 3 sale.
A May 29, 1986, Winnipeg Free Press article headlined "Radioactive Waste Repository for Manitoba Planned by Agency," really caught our attention. AECL’s idea was to remove spent fuel from each SLOWPOKE 3 reactor every five to eight years. The thirty or forty fuel bundles would be placed in concrete cylinders at its research facilities at Pinawa, Manitoba and Chalk River, Ontario. Eventually, it was reported, the waste would go into the (still non-existent) permanent underground waste repository. CCM took the position that the Province should not permit storage of SLOWPOKE 3 waste and that (it should) ". . . block the buildup of anything which tends to take us closer to a nuclear waste repository in Manitoba."
CCM considered that if AECL started bringing its foreign customers' SLOWPOKE 3 excrement back to Canada, it would be well on the road to the full-scale commercial international radioactive waste dump about which CCM had been warning the public for so many years.
According to the article, Provincial Environment Minister Gerard Lecuyer was surprised by this development and indicated that ". . his initial reaction was one of opposition."
CCM's interest in the SLOWPOKE 3 grew further as a result of another article in the Winnipeg Free Press on July 24, 1987, which reported AECL's Metro Dmytriw as saying that the Corporation had received an initial inquiry about the purchase of one from an interested party in Manitoba.
According to that article, Dmytriw also suggested that a SLOWPOKE 3 nuclear reactor might be a replacement for Winnipeg's aging central steam heating plant. The article pointed out that AECL had held no discussions with the city nor did city officials express any interest in the idea at the time.
Other groups had also been criticizing the SLOWPOKE 3. The Montreal Gazette, May 22, 1986, reported Norm Rubin of Energy Probe in Toronto as saying . . .(the idea is) "crazy." Rubin wondered how, in the event of an accident, a hospital or shopping mall could be evacuated, especially since the SLOWPOKE 3 would operate "unattended" for some periods of time.
The same Gazette article included similar concerns expressed by Gordon Edwards, President of the Montreal-based Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. Both Rubin and Edwards pointed to the unsolved nuclear waste problem as a good reason for not proceeding with the development and marketing of the SLOWPOKE 3 nuclear reactor.
Aside from the waste, safety, and economic questions surrounding the SLOWPOKE 3, CCM expressed concern over reactor security. An unattended reactor operating in a small community or a building in a large city could present unparalleled opportunities for anyone who might want to steal high-level nuclear waste. (The design called for spent fuel rods to be stored within each reactor, until removed to some other location.)
Other possible acts might include sabotaging the untended reactors themselves, or pumping out the water (which becomes more radioactive as the reactor operates), into a municipal system. Unforeseen and unanticipated damage and acts of terrorism are a real possibility when one considers the many unstable political situations around the world.
Even large power reactors have their security problems. According to the October 2, 1987 Critical Mass Energy Project's newsletter, Public Citizen, in the US, "Dozens of security breaches occurred at nuclear plant sites in 1986. These include vandalism and sabotage directed at reactor operations; use of firearms on plant sites by unauthorized persons; and increasing drug use among nuclear workers." Also, some workers have been found, literally, asleep at the switch.
My personal involvement with the SLOWPOKE, became even more intense when my wife, Phyl, and I moved from Manitoba to Québec, in 1988.
We had just arrived at the home of friends in the town of Beebe, in the Eastern Townships of Québec. It was March 15, 1988, and we were on a house hunting expedition.
Somewhat tired from the day's journey, which included a six-hour long delayed flight from Winnipeg, and a long drive in a rented car through a heavy snow storm from Montréal, we looked forward to some relaxation and good conversation that evening.
Our friends, however, stood by quietly watching, as we stared incredulously at the March 14 edition of the Sherbrooke, Québec, Record, which was propped up on their dining table.
Plastered across the front page was a story about AECL's plan to construct and operate a ten megawatt SLOWPOKE ("Safe Low Energy Critical Experiment") nuclear reactor at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), the large University Medical Centre located in Québec’s Eastern Townships.
I quickly scanned the story, which someone had leaked to the newspaper, revealing AECL's plan to build the reactor for the stated purpose of heating the hospital.
AECL was to own and operate it, and the hospital would pay the heating bill. Most importantly, the reactor, the first of its kind, was planned to serve as a demonstration based on the two megawatt version (which we knew was still nowhere near full power)at the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment at Pinawa, Manitoba.
"I don't believe this," and "You've got to be kidding," were but a few (printable!) comments made by the two of us, as we read the lead article.
Our activities in Manitoba were well known to some of the environmental and peace activists in the Townships area. We had made contact with them during the 1985 controversy over a possible U.S. nuclear waste dump in northern Vermont, very close to the Canadian border.
When some of them heard that we were moving into the area, we were asked to join them in dealing with the new-to-Sherbrooke SLOWPOKE 3 issue.
Thus, a short time after our arrival into what we had hoped would surely be a relaxed new start in retirement life, Phyl and I were involved in strategy meetings with peace and ecology groups, a meeting with AECL and hospital officials, news conferences and media interviews.
It was as if we had never left Winnipeg.
Since my concern about the so-called SLOWPOKE 3 reactor had already started to grow over the past several years in Winnipeg, it seemed somehow appropriate to be involved in this new controversy.
The more I learned about the new mini-nuke, the less I liked it: It would use highly-enriched uranium which must be imported from other countries. It would create high-level radioactive waste, which would contain weapons usable plutonium. It would be marketed anywhere in the world. It would operate unattended for periods of time, leaving it vulnerable to those with malicious intent. Also, it would routinely emit radioactive gasses into the environment.
Yet, the plan now was to place such a machine in, of all places, a large teaching hospital, where, as is true of anything else designed by humans, accidents could, and did happen.
When Phyl and I finally moved from Winnipeg, we had put our belongings in storage as we continued to search for a house in the Eastern Townships. As it turned out, we did not find a house we liked before we sold our place in Winnipeg. So, we rented a furnished mobile home in a farming area near the town of Beebe.
We brought the essentials for living with us in our camper van which pulled our old 1960s'tent trailer from Winnipeg to the Townships.
However, I had packed one box of assorted files on nuclear waste issues in the tent trailer. Now, I am not especially a mystic, but it turned out that one of those files was full of papers on the SLOWPOKE reactor! It contained information which later proved to be very useful in shaping future events.
However, it now seemed as if our dream of "peace, quiet and contemplation" in the rolling hills of the Eastern Townships was not to be. [Our histories showed that we were probably never cut out for that kind of a life anyway!] For us, it would be the "Year of the SLOWPOKE."
The minutes of a February 16, 1988 meeting between AECL and the CHUS Hospital Board of Directors include an AECL quote that ". . . an appropriate strategy produces very little public reaction."
This time, however, AECL's "appropriate strategy" obviously did not take into account that someone(s) high up within the hospital's staff itself might have more than a few misgivings about the venture and would leak the information to the media.
The Townships Peace Group asked us to attend a May 2, 1988 meeting at the CHUS with hospital officials, AECL representatives, and persons concerned about the SLOWPOKE project.
We were already seated at the board room conference table when the AECL contingent arrived. Several AECL officials present from the Pinawa, Manitoba, Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment (WNRE), were visibly shaken when they saw us there. Of course, they did not know that we had very recently moved from Winnipeg to Québec. "What are you doing here?" asked one of them. "We live here." I retorted. I'll never forget the
astonished look on their faces.
The Robbins, former Concerned Citizens of Manitoba stalwarts, were probably the last two people they wanted to see that morning!
They were no doubt unhappy about the presence of others who also were at the meeting, including Gordon Edwards, well known nuclear critic from Montréal, and Max Krell, a local university professor, (and a very concerned nuclear physicist).
The hospital officials and AECL reminded me of a group of kids who had just got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. I imagine that they all realized at that moment, that their "appropriate strategy" might have just gone down the tube!
Although good manners were observed throughout, it became quite obvious that the citizens' representatives were not going to buy in on the proposal.
It did not take long for a coalition of peace and environmental groups and other concerned individuals to take shape in the Eastern Townships. The group used the same initials used by the hospital, i.e., the "Coalition CHUS" (Continue Hydro, not Uranium for our Safety, or, in French, Continuer l'Hydro non l'Uranium pour notre Sécurité.)
After the initial flurry of organizational and media activity, Phyl and I settled into a relatively benign role of "behind the scenes" support to the mostly French speaking coalition. But I had one more moment in the spotlight, which Phyl provided for me.
She had carefully reviewed the contents of the SLOWPOKE file that we had brought with us from Winnipeg, and had found an amazingly frank, and startling statement by John Hillborn, the inventor of the SLOWPOKE reactor, concerning the possibility of nuclear accidents.
In a June, 1981 paper he co-authored for the Second Annual Meeting of the Canadian Nuclear Society in Ottawa,(AECL document No. 7438), Hillborn said that, "It is now well known that people will accept frequent, small disasters more readily than rare catastrophes."
Airplane crashes were used as an example. The paper continued,
"Although we may have to endure the legacy of Three Mile Island for many years, a decentralized system of small reactors which effectively eliminates the possibility of a single big accident may have a significant advantage in licensing, insuring, and gaining public acceptance. Eventually the public may accept accidents to small reactors to the same extent that they accept fires, explosions, and airplane crashes, as long as the consequences are not obviously worse. It would be unrealistic however, to expect many communities to welcome nuclear reactors within their boundaries until there are severe regional shortages of gas and electricity."
On June 22, 1988, I read this statement, without comment, at the Coalition's first press conference. The media jumped on it. The following day the quote was used in the lead editorial in the Sherbrooke Record . Hilborn's statement became one of the Coalition's, and the media's favorite items. It was an excellent example of the fact that one of our most powerful weapons against AECL was its own prose.
I was not alone in finding Hilborn's statement to be a chilling one, with its assessment of public reaction to "small" nuclear catastrophes. The 1980s witnessed bitter and protracted conflict and public concern over radioactive spills from discarded medical equipment in scrap yards, radioactive soil in housing developments, radioactive materials dropping from space
satellites, and missing quantities of plutonium.
The fact that there is no safe level of radiation was understood by the public. Increasingly, evidence points to negative health effects from the most negligible levels of radiation. And the public has become aware of the consequences from nuclear radiation in whatever forms and amounts. Even the negative side of natural radiation has become more evident. There is nothing to suggest that the public will, in Hilborn's terms, easily accept "small" nuclear disasters.
Coalition CHUS continued to raise questions about the safety of the reactor. An exchange of correspondence between an official of Canada's Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB) and myself, revealed that the so-called "nuclear regulators" had no(!) safety information on the reactor. Their October 5, 1988 letter to me stated that "It is likely that the 10-mw reactor will be significantly different from the (2-mw) SDR." The letter also noted that "At this time the AECB does not have any detailed design information on the proposed 10-mw installation."
Not only was the 10-megawatt SLOWPOKE 3 an "experiment" in the true sense of the word, even its supposed prototype 2-mw version, at the WNRE, was still in its embryonic stages. AECB had reviewed that reactor and requested that AECL take a number of significant steps to improve its safety.
As the SLOWPOKE issue developed and the Coalition CHUS quickly grew during the Summer and Autumn of 1988, Phyl and I continued to provide it with advice, moral support, and assistance in developing letters and fact sheets
I was absolutely astounded at the energy and the effectiveness of the anti-SLOWPOKE coalition. Something was happening all the time. Meetings, mailings, radio and TV coverage, debates, button and t-shirts sales --- just about every legitimate, democratic, non-violent form of protest and expression was taking place.
By October, 1988, the movement had acquired a life of its own. There were so many media events, activities, and speakers' appearances going on that it was difficult just to keep track of them all.
As Coalition CHUS rapidly expanded, Phyl and I continued work in our behind the scenes role to supply information and ideas. For example, in one of her fact sheets Phyl included information about AECL's own stated policy of excluding pregnant women and small children from tours and open houses at the WNRE, which contained the 2 megawatt "prototype" of the SLOWPOKE.
Pregnant women and small children visit the CHUS medical centre every day for medical treatment. Would not a ten megawatt reactor at the hospital provide at least equal, if not greater risk? The point was not lost on the nurses at the hospital. Their union passed a unanimous resolution opposing the reactor, declaring it a public health risk.
By November, 1988, coalition support was estimated at twenty-five thousand, with almost ten organizations a week joining our forces. Much of the opposition came from the hospital staff itself. Politicians were falling over themselves to come onside.
The handwriting on the wall was writ large and clear. On December 20, 1988, we received the best Christmas present of all: the hospital Board of Directors announced its withdrawal from the SLOWPOKE project, a decision taken in spite of AECL's initial offer to absorb the five-to-seven million-dollar capital cost. Coalition CHUS had done its work well.
AECL folded its tents and left Sherbrooke. It had lost another round in its struggle to market its mini-nuke.
AECL's public relations and sales forces had again failed to convince any community that they had invented the perfect nuclear heating machine; one which they promoted as being inherently safe, and which would operate in the midst of a populated area without negative consequences, for at long as 30 years -- - even though the design of the reactor had not yet been finalized or approved!
Undaunted, the federal Crown Corporation continued to seek a location for a full-scale demonstration SLOWPOKE 3 to enhance the reactor's credibility in the eyes of potential foreign customers. But no one was buying. After two more failed attempts (one at a G.E. plant in Peterborough, Ontario, and another lengthy one at the University of Saskatchewan), the marketing project stalled.
A few years later, the two megawatt "prototype" at WNRE (which had never operated at full strength) was shut down. By November 1991, and forty-five million dollars later, the entire SLOWPOKE 3 project was consigned to oblivion.
In a 2007 article on “ Nuclear Smoke and Mirrors,” Jim Harding, a retired University of Regina, professor of environmental and justice studies commented on some of the Canadian reactor designs.
He wrote that “... the list of botched AECL designs is lengthy. There was the Organic Cooled Reactor in Manitoba, which was an expensive dead end. There was the Candu Boiling Light Water Reactor in Québec, which (without even including design costs) was a $126 million disaster. Then there was the Slowpoke Energy System, for which design work cost $45 million, which didn’t work properly. Next came the Candu-3, for which design work cost $75 million, which no one wanted. And the Candu-9, with design costs still secret, which was a no-go in South Korea. More recently AECL built the Maple Reactor at Chalk River, which threatens to become another technological and financial fiasco since the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is refusing to even license it for operation”.
The moral of this story is that there is no such thing as an inherently safe nuclear reactor. Those who contemplate going down that road should carefully assess the lessons from the past. If they do so, they might very well choose other, more preferable alternatives.
Walt Robbins
The Great Canadian Nuclear Waste Saga
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