IAEA Student Video Contest Seeks Clean Energy Future Voices

Amid growing global interest in the use of nuclear power to mitigate climate change, students from around the world joined an IAEA filmmaking initiative underscoring the need for a clean energy future powered by the atom.More than 300 teams comprising some 1000 students under the age of 18 submitted short videos to the IAEA contest on the Role of Nuclear Technology in Addressing Climate Change.Sonia’s Story, the winning entry by a three-person team called “Fission Future” from the United Kingdom, tells the story of a mother in 2080 struggling to maintain her family as catastrophic climate change has buried island states under the oceans, flooded major coastal cities, and resulted in an extreme scarcity of fuel, food and jobs.Sonia pinpoints the moment when the sharp descent into self-inflicted misery began: a 2025 referendum that rejected further use of nuclear power. All this…

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