Sustainability Practitioner | Circularity Motivator | Director, Sagacity Environment | Co-Founder @Project Waste-To-Value Ctre S'pore-Finland| Nuclear/Hydrogen | Head, Juniasia Group (Consulting/Advisory) Singapore HQ
Tiktok's Ms. Nuclear Energy Is Winning Over Nuclear Energy Skeptics MIT's Kaylee Cunningham using her training as a PhD student in nuclear science and engineering to dispel myths which continue to plague the industry & pushing a pro and educative nuclear energy outlook. One TikTok a time as her chosen powerful nuclear energy medium. To achieve its net zero energy goals, a representative from the University of Reykjavik balked at Cunnigham’s suggestion of including a nuclear option in the alternative energy mix. “The response I got was that we’re a peace-loving nation, we don’t do that,” Cunningham needed a platform to clarify on misconceptions on nuclear energy & made a TikTok that targeted misinformation. Overnight she garnered 10,000 followers and “Ms. Nuclear Energy” was off to the races. Ms. Nuclear Energy is now Cunningham’s TikTok handle. Her ability to digest “complex topics into something understandable to people who have no connection to academia” has helped Cunningham on TikTok. “It’s been something I’ve been doing all my life with my parents and siblings and extended family,” she says. Punctuating her video snippets with humor — a Simpsons reference is par for the course — helps Cunningham break through to her audience who love her goofy and tongue-in-cheek approach to the subject matter without compromising accuracy. Main objective & outcome is to educate on all misinformation on the demonisation of nuclear energy by misinformation on media/social platforms. Her advocacy includes encourage young people toward a nuclear science or engineering career. “If we’re going to start putting up tons of small modular reactors around the country, we need people to build them, people to run them, and we need regulatory bodies to inspect and keep them safe,” Cunningham points out. “ And we don’t have enough people entering the workforce in comparison to those that are retiring from the workforce,” Her advoacy has attracted high school girls looking for advice on pursuing nuclear energy studies. All the activism is in service toward a clear end goal. “At the end of the day, the fight is to save the planet & nuclear power is the best chance we’ve got to fight climate change and keep our planet alive.” Cunningham https://lnkd.in/dQkHg2RM Video: here https://lnkd.in/dQgG28p4 #nuclearenergy Massachusetts Institute of Technology #cleanenergy #climatechange #stemforgirls #smrs #womeninnuclear
