Miss America and nuclear engineer Grace Stanke will be travelling around Australia with a host of other nuclear experts as a part of the National Nuclear Tour.

The tour is hoping to improve the public perception around nuclear science.

Grace Stanke told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, “I think nuclear energy and nuclear science as a whole is seen as some weird, unknown science that you have to spend 20 years in school to even so much as break into the industry, but that’s not the case.”

“Nuclear science is all around us, it’s in our homes. If you like bananas, you’re actually ingesting some radiation, smoke detectors use some nuclear technology.”

“All of these things that are part of our daily lives, so imagine how much more good nuclear science could do if we fully embrace this technology.”

Hear more highlights from Peter Fegan below:

Image: Grace Stanke/Facebook

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