How do they match: Nuclear Monitoring Technicians

  • Inform supervisors when individual exposures or area radiation levels approach maximum permissible limits.
  • Calculate safe radiation exposure times for personnel using plant contamination readings and prescribed safe levels of radiation.
  • Calibrate and maintain chemical instrumentation sensing elements and sampling system equipment, using calibration instruments and hand tools.
  • Confer with scientists directing projects to determine significant events to monitor during tests.
  • Determine intensities and types of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials, using radiation detectors or other instruments.
  • Enter data into computers to record characteristics of nuclear events or to locate coordinates of particles.
  • Immerse samples in chemical compounds to prepare them for testing.
  • Instruct personnel in radiation safety procedures and demonstrate use of protective clothing and equipment.
  • Operate manipulators from outside cells to move specimens into or out of shielded containers, to remove specimens from cells, or to place specimens on benches or equipment work stations.
  • Prepare reports describing contamination tests, material or equipment decontaminated, or methods used in decontamination processes.
  • Provide initial response to abnormal events or to alarms from radiation monitoring equipment.

  • Communicate safety or hazard information to others.