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Brazilian model and nuclear electricity proponent
Isabelle Boemeke
Boemeke in 2024
Websiteisodope.com

Isabelle Boemeke is a Brazilian fashion model and social media personality. She is known for her TikTok videos, in which she promotes the benefits of nuclear electricity and its role in solving climate change.

Boemeke is not funded by the nuclear industry but rather is supported by Patreon contributions and her earnings as a model and influencer.

Early life

Boemeke has worked as a fashion model since the age of 17. After moving to the United States for her modeling career, she read Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, which sparked her interest in science.

Career

In 2016, Boemeke first learned about the benefits of nuclear generated electricity from Carolyn Porco’s tweet about molten salt thorium reactors.

The 2019 Australian bushfire and Amazon rainforest wildfires motivated Boemeke to use her platform to address climate change. She believed that despite its controversial reputation in the media, nuclear generated electricity is necessary to solve climate change.

Boemeke began incorporating climate and energy information into her modeling shoots in 2020.

In February 2020, she created her social media account, Isodope, and began writing, producing, and editing videos that promoted facts about nuclear generated electricity. Inspired by Lil Miquela, she took visual cues from vaporwave and mashed the aesthetic with contemporary social media tropes.

Activism

In December 2021, she organized protests against the closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in San Luis Obispo County, California, arguing that the state would struggle to reduce carbon emissions without it. Subsequently, the plant closure has been delayed until 2030.

In 2022, she was called a “Next Generation Leader” by Time magazine. Boemeke was also featured in and served as an executive producer of Oliver Stone’s 2022 film Nuclear Now.

She is a TED Talk speaker and is active across TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube under the username Isodope.

See also

References

  1. "Isabelle Boemeke: Time for the nuclear option?". Reason.com. 2025-01-03. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  2. "About Isodope". Isodope. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  3. ^ Madeleine Holden (January 4, 2021). "TIKTOK STAR ISODOPE IS THE WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR ENERGY INFLUENCER". Mel Magazine.
  4. ^ James Joseph (December 20, 2022). "Nuclear Energy Activist: Isabelle Boemeke". Cybr Magazine.
  5. ^ Jennifer Dugan (October 13, 2022). "This Influencer Is Using Her Platform to Help People Understand Nuclear Energy". Time.
  6. ^ Matthew Gault (November 2, 2020). "TikTok Influencer 'Isodope' Is Stanning for Nuclear Energy". Vice.
  7. ^ "Isabelle Boemeke". TED.
  8. "The Future History of the Nuclear Renaissance With Isabelle Boemeke". Palladium Magazine. September 21, 2022.
  9. ^ Emily Pontecorvo (October 19, 2020). "This radiant model wants you to stop worrying and love nuclear energy". Grist.
  10. Nathanael Johnson (January 11, 2022). "Save the nukes?". Grist.
  11. "Nuclear Now". IMDB.
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