Nuclear Power: How a Nuclear Power Plant Really Works!: How a Nuclear Power Plant Really Works! (A Mom's Choice Award Recipient) - Softcover

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Amelia Frahm is known for taking contentious, difficult topics and putting them in a format children understand and find interesting. A breast cancer diagnosis at age 34 motivated her to write the award-winning “Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy” for her own children. In October 2001, the book’s release was launched on the Rosie O’Donnell Show. Its release helped pioneer resources for families coping with cancer. In 2011 Frahm released the award-winning and controversial children’s picture book “Nuclear Power: How a Nuclear Power Plant Really Works!” Released in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, both the book and Frahm received harsh criticism from anti-nuclear advocates due to the book’s title/topic. The book was intended as a resource to explain the basic fundamentals of how a nuclear power plant worked. Frahm called it a creative spin on the well-worn “How a Nuclear Power Plant Works” schematic that could be found in many science textbooks. Anti-nuclear critics called it nuclear propaganda for children. She responded by saying: “I believe that fear is fueled by a lack of knowledge and misinformation. If you have read my book you know it provides children an opportunity to learn about nuclear power in a format that is neither pro nor con, but fun and unbiased.” Frahm had worked in the nuclear industry in the 1980’s. A Public Relations/Journalism major she found herself thrust into an industry filled with engineering, science, and technology professionals. One of her job assignments was to create and implement an elementary school program. That assignment is what inspired her to write her book on nuclear power plants. She said, “My intent was to capture the attention of students who did not grasp the technical fundamentals of a nuclear power plant as easily as their science-minded classmates. Students like me!” Frahm is a contributor to the inspirational book “How We Became Breast Cancer Thrivers”, and the creator of “Crack Open a Book!”, the first cancer education school program curriculum written and taught by a cancer survivor. Today it also offers a nuclear literacy school program. Visit NutcrackerPublishing.com for more information. Frahm's own children are now young adults. She, her husband, and their pug, Charleston Chew, reside in the mountains of East Tennessee. Visit her blog at: ameliafrahm.blogspot.com