According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Follow nuclear equipment operational policies and procedures that ensure environmental safety. | 96% |
| Conduct surveillance testing to determine safety of nuclear equipment. | 95% |
| Monitor nuclear reactor equipment performance to identify operational inefficiencies, hazards, or needs for maintenance or repair. | 94% |
| Test plant equipment to ensure it is operating properly. | 92% |
| Apply safety tags to equipment needing maintenance. | 92% |
| Follow policies and procedures for radiation workers to ensure personnel safety. | 91% |
| Monitor instruments, gauges, or recording devices under direction of nuclear experimenters. | 91% |
| Modify, devise, or maintain nuclear equipment used in operations. | 87% |
| Perform testing, maintenance, repair, or upgrading of accelerator systems. | 86% |
| Adjust controls of equipment to control particle beam movement, pulse rates, energy or intensity, or radiation, according to specifications. | 82% |
| Warn maintenance workers of radiation hazards and direct workers to vacate hazardous areas. | 81% |
| Calculate equipment operating factors, such as radiation times, dosages, temperatures, gamma intensities, or pressures, using standard formulas and conversion tables. | 80% |
| Measure the intensity and identify the types of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials, using radiation detectors or other instruments. | 79% |
| Communicate with accelerator maintenance personnel to ensure readiness of support systems, such as vacuum, water cooling, or radio frequency power sources. | 78% |
| Set control panel switches to route electric power from sources and direct particle beams through injector units. | 78% |
| Identify and implement appropriate decontamination procedures, based on equipment and the size, nature, and type of contamination. | 75% |
| Decontaminate objects by cleaning them using soap or solvents or by abrading using brushes, buffing machines, or sandblasting machines. | 74% |
| Prepare reports to communicate information such as contamination test results, decontamination results, or decontamination procedures. | 72% |
| Collect air, water, gas or solid samples for testing to determine radioactivity levels or to ensure appropriate radioactive containment. | 70% |
