My son, who has a million followers on his own account, made a video of me because he took credit for my account. One jump happened after I’d gotten to 10,000 followers. It was kind of slow but there were a few big jumps that occurred. When they try to pour out their hate, I try to answer them in a professional, calm, reasonable way. But TikTok will every now and again bring in an antinuclear person who will get offended at hearing a pronuclear message. Most of the people who follow me would be pronuclear or at least open to hearing a pronuclear response. How receptive has the audience been to your messages? I think it through how I would answer it in 60 seconds and then try to do it. But it’s generally going to be a unique answer. There are several different categories like that and if it’s sufficiently distinct or it’s been a sufficiently long time since I’ve answered that question, I answer them again. When these questions come in, they’ll usually be specific. The other is when viewers send me comments that are in a category like Fukushima, Chernobyl, nuclear waste, or nuclear weapons. It’s an easy little fact to do and it’s kind of like, “Believe me because I said so.”
One is when I decide to give a fact about nuclear. How do you come up with ”little nuggets” for the videos? It took a while, but I started getting better as time went on. That was the biggest challenge-turning nuclear concepts into sound bites. When I started, you could only do 60 seconds and how do you communicate a nuclear concept in 60 seconds? I’m used to 75-minute lectures twice a week over an entire course. What was the most difficult part about getting the channel started?Ĭondensing it down into 60-second clips.
I was passionate enough that I felt I had to do it. Just over a year ago I realized the students weren’t going to do it. They felt that society needed influencers or social media giants that had the facts about nuclear and could communicate them in an understandable way to the general public.Īnd I kept thinking, “Wow, you need to do this!” But none of them did that I’m aware of. There were some brilliant ideas they kept coming up with. About half of the students in every course choose Public Engagement as their topic. I require graduate students to find a research topic related to health physics that will answer one of ANS’s Nuclear Grand Challenges. What prompted you to start the TikTok account?
CONDENSE LOG HOW TO
Hayes, an ANS member since 2001, spoke with ANS News about the beginnings of his TikTok channel its growing popularity (more than 118,000 followers), and how to condense difficult nuclear-related topics into 60-second sound bites. What started as a classroom assignment for his health physics graduate students has turned into a popular TikTok channel run by Robert Hayes, associate professor of nuclear engineering at NC State. Nuclear Newswire takes this opportunity to congratulate a on his new role and republish an interview that originally appeared in the June 2022 issue of Nuclear News (page 16). The partnership will enhance radiological monitoring research, nuclear safety, and operational health physics.”
If we are successful, every proliferator will be convinced they cannot hide their efforts and will simply confess their attempts to weaponize nuclear material early enough that diplomats can address the problems long before military intervention can be realized. According to Hayes, “the crazy cool research done at NC State is highly complementary to that being done at SRNL in so many ways.
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