Description
Support nuclear engineers, physicists, and other scientists in power generation, laboratory, and research settings. Operate, monitor, and maintain nuclear systems and instrumentation, perform quality control, and monitor radiation to ensure safe, compliant operations.
- • Follow nuclear equipment operational policies and procedures that ensure environmental safety.
- • Conduct surveillance testing to verify the safety of nuclear equipment.
- • Monitor reactor and plant systems to identify inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance needs.
- • Test plant equipment to ensure proper operation.
- • Apply safety tags to equipment requiring maintenance.
- • Adhere to radiation worker policies and procedures to ensure personnel safety.
- • Modify, build, or maintain nuclear equipment used in operations.
- • Monitor instruments, gauges, and recording devices under direction of experimenters or operators.
- • Perform testing, maintenance, repair, or upgrades of accelerator systems.
- • Warn maintenance workers of radiation hazards and direct personnel to vacate hazardous areas.
- • Calculate operating factors such as radiation times, doses, temperatures, gamma intensities, and pressures using standard formulas and conversion tables.
- • Measure radiation intensity and identify radiation types in work areas, equipment, or materials using detectors and other instruments.
- • Coordinate with accelerator maintenance personnel to ensure readiness of vacuum, water cooling, and radio frequency power systems.
- • Identify and implement appropriate decontamination procedures based on the size, nature, and type of contamination.
- • Decontaminate objects by cleaning with soap or solvents or by abrading with brushes, buffing machines, or sandblasting equipment.
- • Collect air, water, gas, or solid samples to assess radioactivity levels and containment effectiveness.
- • Recommend radioactive decontamination procedures according to equipment characteristics and degree of contamination.
- • Set up and calibrate area radiation monitors and verify detector accuracy.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
