Description
Plan, design, and oversee systems, facilities, and procedures for the safe characterization, treatment, packaging, transportation, storage, and disposal of radioactive waste, applying nuclear science and regulatory standards to minimize exposure and environmental impact.
- • Investigate waste handling or transport incidents to develop corrective and preventive measures.
- • Monitor waste processing, packaging, and storage operations for safety and regulatory compliance.
- • Stay current on radioactive waste technologies, standards, and regulations through study and research.
- • Conduct bench- or pilot-scale tests for waste characterization, treatment, stabilization, or disposal.
- • Design or oversee construction and operation of waste treatment systems, storage facilities, and disposal units.
- • Specify or design waste containers, transport casks, shielding, and monitoring/control systems.
- • Initiate stop-work and corrective actions during waste management emergencies or noncompliance.
- • Recommend waste minimization, handling, and exposure controls based on monitoring and test results.
- • Develop and maintain procedures for waste characterization, segregation, packaging, transportation, storage, and disposal.
- • Test and optimize performance of waste processing equipment and storage conditions to enhance safety and capacity.
- • Direct operations and maintenance of waste management systems to ensure reliability and ALARA compliance.
- • Perform environmental monitoring and impact studies for waste facilities and transportation routes.
- • Develop source-term and waste generation models to reduce waste volume and radiotoxicity.
- • Create remediation, decontamination, and site closure plans for contaminated or legacy sites.
- • Lead environmental and radiological compliance, permitting, and audit activities for waste operations.
- • Prepare license applications, safety analyses, performance assessments, and environmental documents for regulators.
- • Compile waste inventories and manifests and prepare technical reports with findings and recommendations.
- • Lead or support R&D on waste forms, conditioning technologies, and long-term performance modeling.
- • Collaborate with health physicists, geologists, chemists, and regulators to define tests and validate models.
- • Coordinate with vendors, transporters, contractors, communities, and review boards on waste facility projects and logistics.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
