Description
Operate and maintain nuclear facility equipment to support power generation and research. Monitor system performance and radiation levels, conduct inspections and quality control tests, and follow strict safety and decontamination procedures.
- • Follow nuclear equipment operational policies and procedures that ensure environmental safety.
- • Conduct surveillance testing to verify the safety and readiness of nuclear equipment.
- • Monitor reactor and plant equipment performance to identify inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance needs.
- • Test plant systems and components to confirm proper operation.
- • Apply lockout/tagout and safety tags to equipment needing maintenance.
- • Follow radiation worker policies and procedures to ensure personnel safety.
- • Operate and maintain nuclear equipment used in operations.
- • Monitor instruments, gauges, and recording devices to track system status.
- • Assist with testing, maintenance, and repair of accelerator or reactor support systems.
- • Warn personnel of radiation hazards and direct workers to vacate hazardous areas.
- • Calculate operating factors such as radiation times, dosages, temperatures, gamma intensities, and pressures using standard formulas.
- • Measure and identify radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials using detectors and related instruments.
- • Coordinate with maintenance teams to ensure readiness of support systems, such as vacuum, cooling water, and radio frequency power sources.
- • Identify and implement appropriate decontamination procedures based on the equipment and type and extent of contamination.
- • Decontaminate objects by cleaning with soaps or solvents or by abrading with brushes, buffing machines, or sandblasting machines.
- • Collect air, water, gas, or solid samples to determine radioactivity levels and verify containment.
- • Follow and implement radioactive decontamination procedures according to equipment type and degree of contamination.
- • Set up area radiation monitors and test detection equipment to ensure accuracy.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
