Heather Hoff couldn’t find a job in her field after she graduated and so she got a job working at Diablo Canyon. She was surprised by what she learned.
"There's so much fear and so much misinformation… it's a convenient villain," Hoff said."It's okay to be scared, but that's not the same thing as dangerous."Hoff came to San Luis Obispo, Calif., to attend California Polytechnic State University, where she graduated in 2002 with a degree in materials engineering.
Her change in sentiment about nuclear energy was a gradual process."I started feeling proud to work there, proud to help make such a huge quantity of clean electricity on a really small land footprint," she told CNBC. Nuclear power actually is"in really good alignment with my environmental and humanitarian values," she said.As of now, Hoff has worked at Diablo Canyon for 18 years and she's clear with herself that she's a believer in the importance of nuclear energy.
"We're not utility executives. We're not guys in suits. We're not mad scientists," Hoff told CNBC. They're mothers. They understand the doubt and the fear that nuclear power arouse, and then educate people about the science of nuclear energy in compassionate language. Not only does the nuclear industry do a poor job of advertising the benefits of nuclear energy, but it has, in many ways, hurt its own image by focusing on the safety precautions. Those extra layers of backup add cost, are often cases of operational redundancy, and send a subtle message that nuclear power must be terrifying and dangerous.
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