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The New Face of Nuclear Energy Is Miss America
The soon to be nuclear fuels engineer is trying to help the industry recapture public support
Does the U.S. need more nuclear power? Miss America thinks so.
So do Oliver Stone, Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Atomic energy is elbowing its way back into the conversation about future energy supplies, with backers in the Biden administration and oil and gas industries alike.
It has also re-entered the American zeitgeist thanks to movies, billionaire backers and a pageant icon.
Supporters of splitting atoms to make electricity as a way to fight climate change include Stone, who just released a documentary about nuclear power; Musk, who frequently calls himself a âbelieverâ; and Altman, the head of the artificial-intelligence startup OpenAI, who plans to take a nuclear power startup public.
Grace Stanke, the reigning Miss America, is on a charm offensive for the industry as part of a year-long publicity tour.
âWhy isnât this being shouted from the rooftops?â asked Stanke, a 21-year-old nuclear engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is too Wisconsin-nice to shout, but in more than 20 states so far she has touted clean energy and nuclear medicine at schools, nursing homes, a state legislature and once on a water-skiing podcast.
âItâs the industry that saved my dad twice from cancer,â Stanke said, referring to radiation and other treatments. âIt powers 20% of America.â
The youngest of three children, Stanke grew up in Wausau, Wisc. She started participating in pageants at age 13 as a way to improve her performance skills for violin and got interested in nuclear science in high school when her dad, a civil engineer, told her not to go into the field because there was no future in it. âI got into it out of spite,â Stanke said. âWhen youâre a 16-year-old girl and your dad tells you not to do something, you go and do it.â
Stanke spoke at the World Nuclear Associationâs symposium in London this month and aims to remain an industry voice even after she crowns the next Miss America. She is completing her last elective class online and has accepted a job with Constellation Energy, which owns the nationâs largest collection of nuclear power plants. The job, which will start in 2024, will include a mix of technical workâas a nuclear fuels engineerâand public advocacy.
Americaâs nuclear power sector has for decades faced public-relations challenges, burdened by high costs, long construction timelines, plant closures and concern over disasters such as Fukushima and radioactive waste.
Its Hollywood image includes giant mutants, the HBO series âChernobylâ and the atomic- weapons race in the summer blockbuster âOppenheimer.â Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee Homer Simpson dropped a doughnut into a reactor core to try to make the pastry bigger.
âItâs always playing the villain,â Stanke said. âItâs what created Godzilla.â
Godzilla appears in Stoneâs new documentary, âNuclear Now,â though it argues that nuclear power is an obvious way to reduce the impact of climate change. It is a similar message to Stankeâs with a crustier delivery.
âWe have to build and build fast,â Stone said in an interview. âWhatâs wrong with nuclear energy was never wrong. It was a brilliant, brilliant gift that we turned our back on. Americans get bored. They want a new car. They want a new TV. Theyâve got to have constant technological change, but we have to ask ourselves, whatâs wrong with the original evidence of nuclear power?â
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