Generation Atomic Week Recao

How’s your summer going? Ours has been-- I’m going to go with-- atomically amazing!

We spent the first week of August in Idaho Falls, where we had “Atomic Week”!  The purpose of the week was two-fold.  How can we develop the advocacy skills of people that already support nuclear energy, and how can we get the topic of nuclear into new communities in a fun and creative way.  To do the first we had our Nuclear Ambassador Training at Idaho National Lab. We had the pleasure of collaborating with our friends at the Nuclear Alternative Project and drawing on their experience to make it even better than the version of the training we did last year. The afternoon was a social media content creation workshop where participants learned mobile filmmaking, meme making, and how to tweet their research.

 

Jesabel Rivera of Nuclear Alternative Project working through some nuclear conversation scenarios.

 

The next day we had a climate board game and beer night at Snow Eagle Brewing.  (Sign up for more info on the board game here, btw).

Night three we partnered with a local Citizens Climate Lobby chapter to put on “Save the Ales”-- a moderated discussion about climate impacts on beer at Idaho Brewing Company.  During the event we had a raffle for some growlers of beer and Gen A swag, where attendees could earn tickets by completing various actions in support of nuclear energy (like emailing their legislators, wearing a button, or singing a song). So fun!

Katelyn Morales, Mike Griffle, and Kemal Pasamehmetoglu of INL, with Linda Engle of Citizens Climate Lobby, having an entertaining discussion on climate change and beer.

We finished up Atomic Week with three days at an art festival called YouthJam.  Here we played a run-around tag game called "Climate Clash" where kids learned about our various clean energy sources by teaming up to take down the fossil fuel team and convert them to clean energy over the course of five action packed rounds. Almost 300 kids played the game over the course of the three days, and many of them told us it was their favorite part of the festival!

Wind (white team), Hydro (blue team), Nuclear (green team), and Solar (orange team) work together to stop Fossil fuels (Gen A staff) from bringing dirty energy to the grid in the dramatic final round.

 

What a week! And none of it would have been possible without the support of the Gateway to Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear, and the amazing staff at Idaho National Lab. They continue to be an absolute joy to work with and the great work they do is helping usher in a whole new era of clean energy abundance. Best tax dollars I’ve ever spent!

 

Last Month On the Internet
Top post on FB last month? This meme. Beware--it’s a bit spicy! We managed to ruffle the feathers of folks on both the right and the left, but that's ok! At least we can all agree that we need more nuclear power.

Top Story from Gen A Mag - Our story comparing nuclear power to “One-Punch Man” . It was featured on google news, resulting in some new folks from the anime community hearing about nuclear power. Pretty cool.

THAT'S IT! Thanks for tuning in, and thanks for all the work you do in the fight for fission.  If you like what we’re doing, join in the fun by volunteering, or help us do more great work with a tax deductible gift!

Have a great weekend,

Eric