Nuclear Monitoring Technicians

Overview

Nuclear Monitoring Technicians has a national median salary of $110,240 per year, with +1.1% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists an associate's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Collect and test samples to monitor results of nuclear experiments and contamination of humans, facilities, and environment.

Work Values

• Support
• Relationships
• Independence

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Brief workers on radiation levels in work areas.
• Calculate safe radiation exposure times for personnel using plant contamination readings and prescribed safe levels of radiation.
• Monitor personnel to determine the amounts and intensities of radiation exposure.
• Inform supervisors when individual exposures or area radiation levels approach maximum permissible limits.
• Provide initial response to abnormal events or to alarms from radiation monitoring equipment.

Work Activities

• Documenting/Recording Information
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Getting Information
• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Processing Information
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
• Analyzing Data or Information
• Working with Computers

Detailed Work Activities

• Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists an associate's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a bachelor's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Bachelor's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for an associate's degree.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Nuclear Monitoring Technicians:

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