CNBC - This mom is now a nuclear advocate

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  • Heather Hoff was working in the control room of the nuclear plant near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., named the Diablo Canyon power plant, during the days when an earthquake caused a tsunami that shut off the power supply cooling three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.

  • Hoff has worked at Diablo Canyon for 18 years and she’s come to see nuclear energy as a critical component of a clean energy future.

  • Hoff went on to co-found the advocacy group, Mothers for Nuclear, in 2016 with her colleague and friend Kristin Zaitz, who also works at Diablo Canyon. “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.”

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