Today’s tweet attacks from pro Thorium Nuclear trolls
For your entertainment? 
These tweets are in response to news items that I have tweeted about problems with thorium nuclear reactors, and the benefits of renewable energy. These pro thorium tweeters make no attempt to answer that information. Their response is to repeatedly attack me personally. But in my opinion not very intelligently. I note that they use sexist and ageist language and pictures. (The pictures are taken ftom ny own graphics, but changed so as to insult me. I wouldn’t bother about all this – but I think it is good to expose the nuclear lobby’s tactics.
Look carefully at Noel wauchope’s DISHONEST tweets “It rained today. I got wet. No to #thorium” Really?!
That the person Noel Wauchope is MURDERING with her FUD was NOT exposed to #thorium is irrelevant to this DISHONEST person!
Noel Wauchope is STUPID. Using the MOST EXPENSIVE #nuclear power plant as reference, German solar is STILL 4 times as expensive! #thorium
Noel Wauchope is not more a critic of #nuclear power than my dog. All she has to offer is IGNORANT BIGOTRY!
Be carefiul of Noel Wauchope. Kills Japanese with glee [ ??? Editors exclamation] but cries boohoo when exposed. NO TO HER DISHONESTY!
Let’s be clear: Noel Wauchope aka @ChristinaMac1 is a Fossil Fuel Industry shill. People have died because of her actions.[ again ???]
Noel Wauchope cannot read let alone understand Science. Her IGNORANT BIGOTRY is all she has. STOP the #GrannyFUD!
brendan @totterdell91 Bwhahaha Noel Wauchopes sock puppets constantly defame everyone else, then have the hide to whine #whataloaofcockycrap #thorium
Pro Thorium Twitter Trolls cannot stand any criticism
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I suppose I should be feeling flattered, finding myself the subject of abuse from the nuclear lobby, in the same way as
the well known and highly regarded Dr Helen Caldicott and Dr Chris Busby.
Nevertheless, I find their constant abuse rather tiresome.
I note that @thjr19 was the Twitter address of a John Randall. When I reported John Randall to Twitter for abuse – his tweets then stopped. Now there’s a Thomas Huxley tweeting abuse about me on that same Twitter address.
For the record, my real name is Noel Christina Clare Wauchope. I blog at http://www.noelwauchope.wordpress.com
I use the name Christina Macpherson (and ChristinaMac1 as Twitter address) I am particularly worried about the big con going on in favour of Thorium nuclear reactors. To tweet specifically on that pont, I use the Twitter name Clare Egan @NoThorium
Like this website – none of my efforts get any funding from anybody. But that doesn’t stop the the Thorium Twitter Trolls from repeatedly accusing me of being paid by the coal, gas, oil lobbies.
Here are just a few of today’s samples of their efforts – they make these in response to my tweets about the costs, safety, and waste problems of thorium nuclear reactors. Note the sexism and ageism :
Noel Wauchope cannot read let alone understand Science. Her IGNORANT BIGOTRY is all she has. STOP the #GrannyFUD!
All Noel Wauchope can come up with is lies, misdirection. strawmen and IGNORANT BIGOTRY. Stop the #GrannyFUD
Thomas Huxley @thjr19 12 July Let’s be clear: Noel Wauchope aka @ChristinaMac1 is a Fossil Fuel Industry shill. People have died because of her actions. #nuclear #thorium
Has Noel Wauchope no shame? Exposed as a shill for the Fossil Fuel Industries, she persists in spreading her despicable FUD. NO! #thorium
Tweeple, beware Noel Wauchope & her sock puppets Paid by the Fossil Fuel Indurstries to spread FUD No to shills! #nuclear #uranium #thorium
Tweets on the #thorium hash tag feed from Noel Wauchope aka @ChristinaMac1 aka @NoThorium but NO attempt made 2 disguise she shills for FFIs
brendan @totterdell91 #thorium no wonder Noel Wauchope uses #sockpuppets no one would want those tweets linked with their real identity #auspol #climate #nuclear
THIS WEEK in nuclear news
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Fukushima. A new critical problem – as the cooling system at nuclear fuel pool 5 is not working.
USA. Wisconsin town faces economic disaster, with the closing of Kewaunee nuclear power plant, and the prospect of 60 years of clean-up – the first of many tons to have to cope with the nuclear power aftermath. As USA’s nuclear industry declines, renewed efforts to beat China, Russia, France, South Korea, in selling nukes to Vietnam.
Underground danger, and continuing radiation release from USA’s crippled Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico
Escalation in nuclear armed submarines, their $100 billion costs now amplified with associated costs to $347 billion.
UK. Quakers speak out against Trident nuclear missile program. The proud Scottish peaceniks, of the 32 years’ campaign to shut down Trident nuclear weapons, renew their drive, in view of the coming referendum on Scotland’s independence. Did you know that Last March, two Peace Campers, Heather Stewart and Jamie Watson, broke into the naval base and climbed on board a nuclear powered Astute submarine? That feat of civil disobedience did not get into the news, did it? A security failure too, wasn’t it?
National Archives release a chilling list of nuclear targets in the cold war – perhaps the same targets today?
Ukraine. Continued conflicts there raise a very real danger of attack or accident to their 19 nuclear power plants.
India did a very bad nuclear deal with USA, Russia and France, in order to engage in international nuclear commerce, despite its status as a nuclear weapons state outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Indian govt is nowcriminalising nuclear and environmental dissent.
This week in nuclear and climate news
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Japan. A high proportion of deformities in migratory birds. Nuclear-news ‘ own co-editor, Sean 
McGee, exposes the pro nuclear publicity campaign by Toyota, and Ogilvy and Mather, to discredit the scientific research on this.
Japan’s restart of nuclear power is far from a done deal, as municipalities object, and evacuation plans are inadequate. P.M Abe is ignoring public opinion, and stiff opposition to nuclear power. Meanwhile, Japan’s nuclear utilities are mired in problems. In energy policy, it is apparent that Germany is now winner, and Japan on a losing trajectory
Germany is achieving record levels of energy from solar and wind power (74% on one day) The State of Schleswig-Holstein is close to 100% renewable energy, from starting just 8 years ago.
Fukushima Japan Gov’t-funded Study: Fukushima has released up to 120 Quadrillion becquerels of radioactive cesium into North Pacific Ocean — Does not include amounts that fell on land — Exceeds Chernobyl total, which accounts for releases deposited on land AND ocean. Plutonium has been found in soil around Fukushima, including in a children’s playground.
India, with 4 big projects going, is on the way to a renewable energy revolution. India struggles to find a way toinsure nuclear power plants, as France renews its nuclear sales pitch to India. But at home, France adopts a vigourous pro renewable energy policy, and downgrading of nuclear power.
Climate Change. USA In what might be a very important precedent A federal judge has blocked a coal project in the wilds of Colorado because federal agencies failed to consider the future global-warming damages from burning fossil fuels.
Renewable Energy records set in California and Texas
Australia special: Aborigines win out against nuclear waste dump plan
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Well, for a few weeks, the Australian media has been happily occupied titillating us all with matters legal – the court cases of Oscar Pistorius and of Rolf Harris.
Meanwhile barely noted by the media, a 7 year legal battle was over this week – one that has far more significance for all Australians. And especially for indigenous Australians.
The Aboriginal Traditional Landowners of the Muckaty station area, (Northern Territory) fought against nuclear waste dumping on their land, and following the last weeks of this case, that plan has been scrapped. It has been a very unequal fight, yet those proud indigenous people have won out, against the legal forces of the Australian Government, and the Northern Land Council, which first signed up to the dump plan.
Background. The global nuclear lobby is happy to have a research reactor at Lucas Heights, in Sydney. This reactor was envisaged, way back, after World War 2 as part of a push to get a nuclear bomb. It remains there as a way in for the nuclear industry in Australia. The medical isotope production was tacked on later – to make the reactor look more respectable, but medical isotopes can be made in alternative ways. Australia sent the high level nuclear reactor wastes overseas is legally bound to take them back.
2004 The Australian government first attempted to site a nuclear waste dump in South Australia, but South Australia resisted this and won. A Territory has less power and that is why the Government targeted the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory Government passed the Nuclear Waste Transport , Storage and Disposal Prohibition Act 2004
2005 . A government expert team investigated and selected 3 sites suitable for burial of the returned high level nuclear wastes. All of these sites were on Commonwealth land. The Muckaty area, which is seismically risky, as well as being on Aboriginal land, was not selected. Nevertheless, the Howard Liberal government passed a draconian Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005 , over-riding environmental and Aboriginal heritage laws, and State and Territory laws and selecting Muckaty for the site
2010. The Labor government repealed that Act in 2010, and promptly replaced it with an equally draconion Radioactive Waste Management Act 2010.
The medical waste deception. The argument that a Northern Territory waste dump is needed for medical wastes is disingenuous. “Waste from nuclear medicine procedures, the majority of which is for diagnostic services rather than treatment, is low level and short term waste can be stored on site and safely disposed of locally. The small amount of higher level waste from nuclear medicine can also be stored locally, as it is currently” –Public Health Association of Australia,
The future. The relatively small amount of high level waste from the Lucas Heights reactor could be stored at Lucas Heights, and the reactor could be shut down, to stop further toxic production. The Australian government, lik ethe rest of the world, does not know where to put the ever accumulating collection of radioactive trash.
My bet is that our not very bright, and totally unethical government will try it on Aboriginal people again – with blackmail or bribes – ‘whatever it takes’.
Australia’s fossil fool Prime Minister Abbott let loose
Dear oh dear! It’s such an embarrassment!
Australia, (population 23 million, about the size of one city in Asia) has a Prime Minister who confidently lectures the whole world against taking any effective action on climate change. Tony Abbott’s on a whirlwind trip to Canada and USA to preach his gospel of promotion for fossil fuel industries
US President Barack Obama speaks out forcefully on the need to act, on carbon pricing as the most effective action, and has introduced significant action to cut greenhouse gases. China has started 6 regional emissions trading schemes.The World Bank’s survey found that 39 countries and more than 23 States and provinces have adopted emissions trading schemes or a carbon tax. No worries. Abbott pronounces that there is “no sign” that such schemes are being adopted.
The Australian tragedy of all this is that – Abbott is probably not lying. He is ignorant. He got into power via the money of the fossil fuel lobbies and the propaganda of the Murdoch media. Abbott gave a wonderfully informed and authoritative description of the theory of man-made climate change. He said it is “absolute crap” Yes, we have a fool for a PM, and it’s a national embarrassment.
Wait to see the blackly funny side of this. Tony Abbott is a firm supporter of the nuclear industry. When he has destroyed all action on climate change in Australia, and when he has stopped renewable energy development there – watch Abbott suddenly believe in climate change ‘action’. That’s when Tony Abbott will come all out in favour of nuclear power as the ‘solution to climate change’ – Christina Macpherson, 11 June 14
Round-up of nuclear and climate news
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Japanese court rules against the restart of two nuclear reactors. Deception by Tepco and government revealed on what really did happen in the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan has started dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Fukushima’s children’s thyroid cancer rates have risen. Japan soon to build massive ice wall in ground around Fukushima nuclear plant, – at massive cost
Finland’s Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant has long been touted as the poster child for magnificent huge new nuclear power. With ever more delays, costs, legal problems, it’s turning out to be a super-expensive white elephant.
Canada. Federal court denies approval for 2 new nuclear reactors, due to safety and environmental factors.
USA continues to thrash out insurmountable problems in nuclear waste and closing down reactors, (but they still keep making the stuff!) Nuclear industry’s costs and delays cast a gloom on chance of “new nuclear’. Small Modular Reactors are part of the problem, not the solution. At least 8 USA nuclear plants expected to be swamped by rising sea levels.
Climate change – In USA The Energy and Policy Institute (EPI) in a new report ‘outs’ the front groups and individuals who attack renewable energy on behalf of the fossil fuel industries. Meanwhile a new progressive (and non-profit) group NextGen Climate now campaigns to elect politicians who support climate change action. An evangelical Christian group declares that action on climate change is a pro life issue, and petitions Florida government accordingly.
India’s new Prime Minister Modi aims to bring solar power to every home by 2019. Opposition parties increase their fight against nuclear power.
Ukraine. Westinghouse, not Russia, now to supply nuclear fuel rods to Ukraine, even though they are not suited to the Russian made fuel assemblies.
Uranium market. A call to cut production, as uranium price is in free fall, below cost of production. Bad lookout for new uranium mines.
Thorium nuclear lobby pretends thorium is not part of the toxic nuclear fuel chain
I am not impressed by the claims of the thorium nuclear lobby. Their sales pitch would have us believe that thorium nuclear reactors are some kind of clean safe alternative to the current dangerous nuclear technology, based on uranium or plutonium as fuel.
Not true. Thorium reactors have safety and environmental hazards, as does every part of the toxic nuclear fuel chain. The thorium lobby believes in this fantasy of the “nuclear fuel cycle” – meaning that by some magic they provide a way in which some toxic products of nuclear reactors, – plutonium and enriched uranium, now play their part in kicking off the thorium fission. And it’s supposed to be all clean and lovely.
The mainstream, established nuclear lobby allows the thorium dream to persist only because the thorium dream offers some hope for the economically failing nuclear industry to hang on.
The thorium lobby on Twitter, regularly attacks me as being “in the pay” of the coal lobby, among other imagined offenses. Their ludicrous pretense is that if one is against nuclear power, one must be for coal power.- Christina Macpherson
This week’s nuclear news
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USA New study shows dramatic rise in cancers, infant mortality, near Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. Radiation -related cancers increase around Pilgrim Nuclear Plant Lawmakers press for greater safety regulation for the nation’s collection of used nuclear fuel rods pools. NRC lists 21 reactors at risk from earthquakes Citizens worry about the oversight of the decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. USA follows Russia in a massive nuclear weapons drill. New Mexico nuclear waste facility likely to remain closed for years following radioactive leak. They think it was caused by kitty litter!
Japan. How a single anti nuclear tweet could land a single mother in gaol. The harassment of Mari Takenouchi.Manga art depicts the health effects of Fukushima radiation. And Japan’s government is not happy about this. Firstlawsuit brought by a TEPCO worker over his exposure to nuclear radiation
UK. It’s almost certain that the European Commission will find that the funding arrangements for Hinkley nuclear plant are illegal . Nuclear lobby launches a new public relations campaign – “Bringing Nuclear to Life”.
Sweden New poll shows that the public is turning against nuclear power.
Renewable energy. Solar panels are back on the White House Obama launches renewable energy actions, and gets support from several corporations. Huge solar array in operation in Florida.
Japan Assembly for Nuclear Free Renewable Energy is launched by two former Prime Ministers.
“Mothers Day” for Mari Takenouchi ?
Ironically, two stories about Mari Takenouchi appear on “Mother’s Day”. And we learn what happens to a single mother of an infant son. What will happen to Mari Takenouchi and her little boy? It could be, that if she “shuts up” about the health effects, and the secrecy surrounding the nuclear crisis, she and her son will be together, and alright.
If she speaks out, perhaps it is separation, and gaol for this mother. Either way, her son loses out. Yet she has had the courage to speak out not only for her child, but for all children in the area – for all children in Japan/ for all the world’s children?
World authorities seem to be turning their back on this problem. Notably health aithofrities, UNSCEAR and WHO word their statements so carefully, so as not to offend the global nuclear industry. They carefully do not investigate certain aspects, such as the effect of ingested radioactive particles “internal emitters”. They point out the difficulties of estimating cancer effects decades later – as if that means that there are NO effects. Like radiation itself – its effects at this easrly stage are “invisible – therefore it is argued that they don’t exist.
Secrecy and doubletalk protect an industry that apparently is “too big (and too dangerous) to fail”
Time that the world chose to first protect mothers and infants, people like Mari Takenouchi.
Nuclear news for the past week
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Our website nuclear-news.net Some good news from co-editor ‘Arclight’. He has been experiencing tribulations – which is what happens to investigative reporters in UK. Moving to Ireland, Arclight was in dire straits. But he has been helped first by anonymous donors, tiding him over, and then , in his passport status, by Jennifer Schweppe, Head of the School of Law, Limerick University. Arclight might not be ‘out of the woods’ yet, but isn’t it great that some people help out in time of need?
Taiwan. 28,000 anti nuclear demonstrators met with water cannons. But people power brings the government to halt the new nuclear reactor
Ukraine. One result of the political change there is a covert agreement that radioactive trash from European Union will now be stored in Ukraine
Chernobyl. The new 2 $billion sarcophagus slowly going up, will last only 100 years – the radioactive reactor wreck requires cover for many thousands of years. It’s a stop-gap measure, but the best that they can come up with.
USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9_8wrDH8M A challenge to governments ruled by corporate greed. A challenge to the Trans Pacific Partnership, to nuclear power, and militarism. Ralph Nader’s new book shows that corporate control of politics is opposed by both Left and Right. “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. ” Nuclear front groups exposed – Nuclear Matters and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) getting far too much coverage in media.
Dead nuclear reactors – the funerals are getting more expensive. USA, home of nuclear power, is first to realise this. And there are more nuclear power deaths on the way.
Japan The Tenacious Mari Takenouchi persists in her anti nuclear activism, despite the techniques used against her. This is detailed by Arclight.
Ecological effects of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Timothy Mousseau clarifies this complicated issue. Much publicity has appeared about how birds have adapted to ionising radiation. Mousseau explains how negative pressures on birds have indeed brought about adaptations. – we see these interesting adaptive responses in the birds that are remaining (i.e. those that haven’t perished…).
France. A new poll finds that the vast majority of French people prefer renewable energy, would not invest in nuclear power
The past week in nuclear news
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Ukraine crisis is highlighting the fact that nuclear reactors are a military TARGET
Japan. Health officials censored on the health problems and deaths due to Fukushima radiation.
Continued campaign of hate against anti nuclear activist Mari Takenouchi
USA.. Rare birth defects occurring at an unusually high rate in the region of Hanford nuclear facility, one of the most radioactively polluted places on the planet
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) Warren Buffett joins the flight of investors away from these new toys, and goes for investment in solar energy. But now there are yet more new nuclear toys – Small Nuclear Reactors floating on the ocean
US government band Navy back the nuclear industry, and not the 79 sailors sick from Fukushima radiation. Suing TEPCO is their only chance.
NASA considers weakening radiation allowance standards for astronauts travelling to Mars, seeing that space rdaiation is such a health obstacle to tthis project
Taiwan: opposition to nuclear power, and prominent former opposition leader Lin Yi-hsiung begins hunger strikeon this issue
UK. Government agency warns that a nuclear waste dump will be washed away by rising sea levels due to climate change.
Rio Tinto’s Annual General Meeting confronted with the facts on the scandalous health and environmental impacts of their Rossing uranium mine in Namibia
Help heat the planet with floating nuclear reactors
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I was very taken by the latest spiel fro MIT – they’re getting desperate about being unable to market Small Modular Nuclear Reactors to any body (except perhaps ignorant Australians.) So – they’ve come up with a newie. – Floating Nuclear Reactors.
Never mind the issues of safety, economics, radioactive pollution – their big selling point is that the reactors will be kept cool by discharging heat into the oceans. They proudly boast – the ocean is a“heat sink”. But wait a minute – aren’t we supposed to be preventing global warming? Isn’t the heating of the oceans a major factor in heating the planet?
The week in nuclear news
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Climate change in the news, following the IPCC report . The nuclear front group The Breakthrough Institute fraudulently pitches that report as a pro nuclear document
Economics.
Germany’s renewable energy output lowers European electricity prices
Some top nuclear executives are selling their stock. Commercial nuclear power shrinking, while plenty of uranium will last. Bavaria shuts down uneconomic nuclear plant. Czech Republic cancels nuclear power expansion
But there’s a bright side to nuclear economics , as nuclear companies get together to organise the global lucrative business of shutting down nuclear reactors.
Japan Harrassment of Mari Takenouchi a freelance Japanese journalist, who writes about radiation and Fukushima’s children – has escalated. A very worrying tip of the iceberg of silencing independent opinion about nuclear power and Fukushima.
Decision to restart nuclear reactors may backfire politically and economically on the Abe government. Much opposition from public and influential community leaders Government duplicity in radiation readings
UK. David Cameron acknowledges damage to offspring of nuclear test veterans. UK defence heavies bullying Scotland which wants to get rid of nuclear weapons base.
South Africa – boosting renewable energy
SMR & Thorium proponents desperately promoting their failed plans to Australia
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While the BHP-funded Grattan Institute and a number of other “authoritative” bodies tout Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) – powered by Thorium, for Australia, the bottom is falling out of the SMR project. The big firms involved are pulling out. Westinghouse already has. Babcock and Wilcox will be next.
Lobbyists like the USA’s nuclear front group, the Breakthrough Institute, have worked successfully on Australia’s pro nukers to flog off these (so far non-existent) SMRs to Australia. Note that they leave out the word “nuclear”, knowing that this word gives their project a bad smell.
However, – forget the associated bad smells of terrorism targets, proliferation dangers, waste problems that go with these nasty little nuclear reactors.
The biggy is economics. They just don’t stack up economically. (It’s such bad taste to mention this – but reneweable energy does stack up economically. And when you’re talking about small decentralised power sources – well – solar and wind are obviously the go.)
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