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SOC 19-4051
Nuclear Technicians (O*NET-SOC 19-4051.00, Nuclear Technicians) assist nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers, or other scientists in laboratory, power generation, and electricity production activities: operating, testing, and maintaining nuclear equipment according to nuclear equipment operating policies and radiation worker procedures, performing surveillance tests to judge equipment safety status, monitoring reactor equipment performance and identifying inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance needs, tagging equipment awaiting repair and implementing isolation, using detectors or other instruments to measure the intensity and type of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials, calculating operating factors such as exposure time, dose, and gamma intensity using standard formulas, collecting and testing air, water, gas, or solid samples, performing decontamination, and setting up area radiation anomaly alarm devices. This page uses only official sources to explain the occupational scope, tasks, Chinese and U.S. statistical scope, and authorization boundaries.
Model impact index for three equally weighted representative core tasks; not a measured share of working time or a job-loss probability. floor((25+75+0)/3+0.5)=33; fermatmind-ai-impact-v1; 2026-10-18.
Use fictional equipment readings and measurement records for one off-site exercise: judge 5 reading sets as normal / needs re-check / should stop work and escalate, write out the procedure steps that must be checked and three anomaly conditions that must be reported immediately, and produce a record table containing measurement points, instrument numbers, background, readings, and the reviewer; the exercise does not constitute real measurement, onboarding qualification, or equipment operating authorization.
First threshold | confirm the authorization boundary first: who may operate and test nuclear equipment, who approves tagging and maintenance isolation, and who decides to stop work when a reading is abnormal. The United States has no single mandatory license covering all employers, but reactor operator licenses are managed separately by the NRC, and nuclear technician positions usually work under facility training and position authorization; radiation work units in China must obtain a radiation safety license, radiation workers must complete training assessment and personal dose monitoring, and those without an operator license may not operate nuclear facility control systems.
Nuclear Technicians (O*NET-SOC 19-4051.00, Nuclear Technicians) assist nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers, or other scientists in laboratory, power generation, and electricity production activities: operating and testing nuclear equipment according to operating policies and procedures that ensure environmental safety, performing surveillance tests to judge equipment safety status, monitoring reactor equipment performance to identify inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance needs; applying safety tags to equipment awaiting repair and supporting isolation; working according to radiation worker procedures to protect personnel safety; using detectors or other instruments to measure the intensity and type of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials and calculating operating factors such as exposure time, dose, gamma intensity, or pressure using standard formulas and conversion tables; collecting and testing air, water, gas, or solid samples, determining and performing decontamination procedures, and installing and testing area radiation anomaly alarm devices; the actually executable scope is determined by training assessment, the radiation safety license, and facility position authorization.
Career direction comparison
The table below compares this occupation with adjacent directions on the same dimensions: main work object, core output, key differences, and selection signals; the comparison is for career exploration and does not represent mutual qualification recognition, automatic transfer, or a hiring promise.
| Career direction | Core work and output | Key differences | Best-fit choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Monitoring Technicians (19-4051.02) | Collect and test samples, measure radiation and contamination, monitor personnel exposure, and write radiation work permits. | The radiation monitoring technician direction takes the measurement, sampling, testing, and protection oversight of radiation and contamination as its main line, producing radiation protection files and radiation work permits; this occupation, while assisting engineering and research, also takes on equipment operation, testing, surveillance testing, and decontamination, and the two are different sub-codes under 19-4051 with different work emphasis and assessment paths. | If you would rather operate and test equipment, perform surveillance tests, and handle on-site technical problems, choose this occupation; if you would rather focus for the long term on radiation measurement, sampling, and dose records, you should choose the nuclear monitoring technician direction; if you want to operate nuclear facility control systems, you must separately obtain an operator license. |
AI impact on this career
Tools can assist with ledger organization, procedure retrieval, and report compilation, but the credibility judgment of readings, the conclusions of equipment testing, decontamination handling, and isolation confirmation are still completed by personnel who have passed training assessment and are within the authorized scope. AI Impact Score 33% is an editorial estimate. Model impact index for three equally weighted representative core tasks; not a measured share of working time or a job-loss probability. floor((25+75+0)/3+0.5)=33; fermatmind-ai-impact-v1; 2026-10-18.The three tasks, ratings and sources are listed in the FermatMind method source record on this page.
FermatMind AI Impact Score estimation method v1
FermatMind / 费马测试 · 2026-10-18
Editorial ratings use the existing occupational responsibilities and AI task analysis on this page. They are not adoption rates, measured effects, job-disappearance or personal-unemployment probabilities, or official scores from Stanford or another external institution. No measured time weights or future robot deployment are assumed.
Chinese mainland salary reference
Scope comparison | the National Bureau of Statistics publishes the average wage of urban unit employed persons by industry category and does not list nuclear technicians separately; this page uses only the average values of the two categories Electricity, Heat, Gas, and Water Production and Supply and Scientific Research and Technical Services as reference, and marks them as category-level scope.
Verifiable reference | in 2025, the average annual wage of employed persons in urban non-private units in electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply was 160,897 yuan, and in urban private units in the same category 66,451 yuan; in scientific research and technical services, non-private units 182,064 yuan and private units 83,560 yuan. The statistical scope covers legal entities with 5 or more employed persons in urban areas, and the survey excludes self-employed individuals and freelancers.
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U.S. salary and employment
U.S. O*NET-relayed BLS scope: in 2025 the precise occupation 19-4051.00 had a median annual wage of 110,240 U.S. dollars and a median hourly wage of 53.00 U.S. dollars, with annual wage percentiles of 73,150—133,600 U.S. dollars.；The 2025 BLS OEWS shown by O*NET gives a median annual wage of 110,240 U.S. dollars and a median hourly wage of 53.00 U.S. dollars for the precise occupation 19-4051.00; this is not starting pay or an individual offer.
| Wage levels | Annual wage reference | Hourly wage equivalent | Explanation |
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| Median annual wage (P50) | $110,240 per year | $53.00 per hour | This only indicates the national median annual wage statistical position under the precise occupational scope, not starting pay or an individual offer.；This value is a national median annual wage statistical position, not starting pay, an individual offer, or an individual income promise. |
| 25th—75th percentile | $99,110—$123,990 per year |
Occupational fit guide
The key signals of fit for this occupation are: being able to maintain protection and recording habits on site where radiation exposure is possible, being willing to repeat measurements and tests according to procedure, being able to stop work and escalate when a reading is abnormal, and being able to hand over clearly with maintenance and operations personnel.
Fit signals： Being able to maintain protection and recording habits over the long term, being willing to repeat measurements and tests according to procedure, being able to stop work and escalate when a reading is abnormal, and handing over clearly with maintenance and operations personnel.
Signals requiring caution： Tending to draw conclusions from a single reading, being unwilling to invest repeated time in sampling, re-testing, decontamination, and recording, or finding it hard to accept on-site exposure and temporary overtime.
Low-cost trial： Use fictional readings and record tables to complete a classification and determination exercise, and accept evaluation by qualified personnel in a teaching or mentoring setting.
Work pressure, risks, and occupational boundaries
The main risks are distorted equipment or radiation readings, test deviations, incomplete isolation, decontamination and waste disposal, and dose overexposure; control them through applicable calibration and verification, re-testing, institutional re-check, dose monitoring, health examinations, and traceable records. Two-person verification is an institution-applicable measure and is not a uniform headcount requirement of the cited health law.
The O*NET work context table is a 0—100 standardized score: radiation 92, common protection 95, specialized protection 64, accuracy 95, consequences of error 80, responsibility for others' safety 82; these are not a 92% of staff exposed or an incident probability, and the scores cannot be read as the proportion of a response option. Legal bases apply separately by nuclear facility and nuclear technology use activity, health training, and monitoring systems.
Typical scenario：Failing to check instrument verification status and background, or determining area or equipment status directly from a single reading
Roles most affected：
Entering the field, qualifications, and career development
Start with supervised learning of radiation protection, instrument use, and record norms, then after obtaining training assessment and position authorization independently take on equipment testing, surveillance testing, and radiation measurement, then participate in anomaly handling, decontamination, and overhaul support, and finally enter technical guidance and procedure improvement; each step is premised on training assessment records, dose monitoring records, and facility position authorization.
Occupational outlook and transition to related occupations
BLS19-4051 nuclear technicians had about 6,700 employed in 2025 and about 6,800 in 2035, growth of 1.1% over 2025—2035, with 900 average annual openings; this is the combined nuclear technician scope and does not break out the equipment or monitoring directions. The detail page shows 54% Utilities and 26% professional scientific and technical services for 2025; the old sub-page figures 62/17/21 have no year and are not mixed in.
United States national (the O*NET page provides this for the precise occupation 19-4051.00). · O*NET 19-4051.00 Nuclear Technicians
Growth 1.1% over 2025—2035; 900 average annual openings
U.S. employment change (precise occupational scope)
Projections show slight growth with replacement openings; specific facility units and training quotas must be checked separately, and this is not explained as AI causality.
According to O*NET 19-4051.00, the core work includes operating and testing equipment according to nuclear equipment operating policies and procedures, performing surveillance tests to judge equipment safety status, monitoring reactor equipment performance and identifying inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance needs; applying safety tags to equipment awaiting repair and coordinating isolation; using detectors or other instruments to measure the intensity and type of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials and calculating factors such as exposure time, dose, and gamma intensity using standard formulas; collecting and testing air, water, gas, or solid samples and determining and performing decontamination procedures; and performing testing, maintenance, and upgrades on accelerator systems and coordinating support system readiness with maintenance personnel.
Choose a real task from this page for a small practice project or a conversation with someone in the field. Use the planning guides to set a date, an output and feedback questions before deciding whether to continue.
20—120 minute safe trial | use fictional equipment readings and radiation measurement records for one off-site exercise: judge 5 fictional reading sets as normal / needs re-check / should stop work and escalate, write out the procedure steps that must be checked and three anomaly conditions that must be reported immediately, and produce a record table containing measurement points, instrument numbers, background, readings, and the reviewer. The exercise uses only fictional data, and no real radiation measurement may be made, nor may any controlled area be entered or any equipment operated.
One-sentence judgment | this occupation is worth further verification only if you are willing to work in facilities and technical environments where radiation exposure is possible, can complete equipment operation, surveillance testing, measurement records, and tagging and isolation according to procedure, and accept the constraints of radiation safety training, dose monitoring, and position authorization; being drawn to the words nuclear or high-tech is not enough by itself.
Core output | linking equipment operation and test records, surveillance test results, radiation measurement and sample testing data, tagging and isolation records, and decontamination processes and waste handover into a traceable technical file: reviewable readings and records, not just a statement that the equipment is normal.
Nuclear Technicians (O*NET-SOC 19-4051.00, Nuclear Technicians) assist nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers, or other scientists in laboratory, power generation, and electricity production activities: operating and testing nuclear equipment according to nuclear equipment operating policies and procedures that ensure environmental safety, performing surveillance tests to judge equipment safety status, and monitoring reactor equipment performance to identify operating inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance needs; tagging equipment awaiting repair and performing isolation, working according to radiation worker procedures to ensure personnel safety; using detectors or other instruments to measure the intensity and type of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials, and calculating operating factors such as exposure time, dose, gamma intensity, or pressure using standard formulas and conversion tables; collecting and testing air, water, gas, or solid samples, determining and performing decontamination procedures, and installing and testing area radiation anomaly alarm devices.
The work is mainly facility site work and technical records: O*NET shows that 92% of this occupation is exposed to radiation, 95% wear common protective or safety equipment, and 64% wear specialized protective or safety equipment; 95% consider precision or accuracy extremely important, 80% report that the consequences of error are extremely serious, and 82% report being responsible for the health and safety of others, showing that the traceability of measurement and records is a basic requirement of the position.
Insufficient evidence: O*NET has not yet published the new hire education composition distribution for 19-4051.00 (that page notes the occupation code profile is only partially available); this page cites only Job Zone 3 (SVP 6.0 to under 7.0), does not fill in education proportions, and the education composition may be referenced from the two sub-occupation pages 19-4051.01 and 19-4051.02.
The daily closed loop centers on equipment and measurement: confirm the work permit and equipment status → operate or perform surveillance tests according to procedure → measure radiation, calculate dose, and collect samples → record and re-check → stop work, report, and escalate on anomalies; decontamination and waste disposal are carried out according to procedure and filed.
| Dimension | Primary track | Comparison track |
|---|---|---|
| Step 1 | Confirm the work permit, equipment status, and instrument verification | Confirm |
| Step 2 | Operate equipment and perform surveillance tests according to procedure | Operate |
| Step 3 | Measure radiation intensity and type and calculate dose | Measure |
| Step 4 | Collect and test air, water, gas, or solid samples | Sample |
| Step 5 | Record the original readings and sign off on the re-check |
Equipment operation and testing | operate equipment according to nuclear equipment operating policies and procedures, test whether equipment operates normally, and modify, design, or maintain nuclear equipment used in operations as needed.
Surveillance testing | perform surveillance tests to judge the safety status of nuclear equipment, and monitor meters, gauges, or recording devices under the direction of nuclear laboratory personnel.
Performance monitoring and hazard identification | monitor reactor equipment performance and identify operating inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance and repair needs.
Tagging and isolation | apply safety tags to equipment requiring maintenance, and coordinate isolation and restoration with maintenance personnel.
Radiation measurement and dose calculation | use detectors or other instruments to measure the intensity and type of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials, calculate factors such as exposure time, dose, gamma intensity, or pressure using standard formulas and conversion tables, and warn maintenance personnel to evacuate when there is radiation danger.
Sample collection and decontamination | collect air, water, gas, or solid samples to determine radioactivity levels or confirm containment effectiveness, and determine and perform decontamination procedures according to the equipment and the nature of the contamination.
Accelerator and research support | perform testing, maintenance, repair, or upgrades on accelerator systems, and communicate with accelerator maintenance personnel about the readiness of support systems such as vacuum, water cooling, or radio frequency power.
Responsibility for the records of equipment operation, measurement, and testing is concentrated in technical positions that have passed training assessment and obtained position authorization; the nuclear facility operating organization bears overall responsibility for nuclear safety; responsibility for operating control systems belongs to licensed operators, and radiation protection and licensing responsibility is implemented by the protection officer and the competent department according to their duties.
Nuclear Technicians
Operators
Radiation protection officer
Maintenance and technical support
| Nuclear Equipment Operation Technicians (19-4051.01) | Perform operations, monitoring, and testing on main control room related equipment and auxiliary systems, producing operating records. | More focused on continuous operation of equipment and processes, while this occupation covers a broader range of testing, maintenance, and research support tasks. | For people who would rather take on continuous operation and state transitions over the long term. |
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| Reactor Operators | Operate or supervise nuclear facility control systems and bear unit status and safety responsibility. | Must hold an operator license; this occupation may not operate control systems and executes testing and maintenance support according to the permit. | For people willing to pass the license assessment and take on high-consequence control decision responsibility. |
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| Instrumentation and control and electrical maintenance personnel | Overhaul, calibrate, and commission instrumentation and electrical equipment, producing maintenance records and equipment status. | Centered on equipment maintenance work under a work permit, while this occupation takes on testing, trials, and radiation measurement duties. | For people who would rather maintain equipment hands-on than perform surveillance tests and measurement records. |
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| Nondestructive testing and industrial inspection personnel | Use radiographic, ultrasonic, and other methods to detect defects in materials and welds, producing inspection reports. | Uses ray devices but focuses on defect determination and must hold the corresponding testing qualification, which differs from the nuclear facility licensing system. | For people who want to work in industrial inspection and defect determination. |
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| Environmental science and protection technicians | Collect and analyze environmental samples, monitor environmental quality, and produce environmental monitoring data and reports. | The work object is environmental media and ecological indicators, and they do not hold equipment operation and radiation protection authorization within a nuclear facility. | For people who would rather work in environmental monitoring and ecological protection. |
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Nuclear technicians should be distinguished from adjacent directions such as radiation monitoring technicians, reactor operators, instrumentation and control and electrical maintenance personnel, and nondestructive testing and industrial inspection positions by the main work object, control authority, and authorization boundary, rather than by similarity of job titles.
When moving to an adjacent direction, first compare transferable capabilities (radiation protection, instrument use, dose calculation, records, and compliance), then fill in the equipment authorization, medical knowledge, or license requirements specific to the target direction; the comparison does not represent mutual qualification recognition or automatic transfer.
Editorial candidate assistance: ledger formats, procedure retrieval, same-dimension unit conversion, and teaching drafts; automatic instrument collection is not the same as generative AI. Count rate cpm, activity Bq, and dose rate μSv/h must be calculated from instrument calibration, efficiency, background, and radiation information, and cannot be converted directly with a single universal factor.
O*NET Hot Technologies lists 8 employer-mentioned software items (Linux, Microsoft Access, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Windows, Word, and SQL) with no proportions given on the page; the page also does not provide a generative AI adoption rate.
BLS19-4051 nuclear technicians had about 6,700 employed in 2025 and about 6,800 in 2035, growth of 1.1% over 2025—2035, with 900 average annual openings; this is the combined nuclear technician scope and does not break out the equipment or monitoring directions. It does not indicate AI causality. Changes to equipment and protection systems are approved under the applicable quality assurance and safety procedures.
| Work area | Task | Current change | Human control point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment operation and testing | Operate and test nuclear equipment according to procedure | Ledger and test record organization can be assisted | Operation and determination are your responsibility |
| Surveillance testing | Perform surveillance tests to judge equipment safety status | Test data compilation can be assisted | Conclusions and acceptance criteria checking are your responsibility |
| Radiation measurement and dose calculation | Measure radiation and calculate dose and operating factors | Unit conversion and record organization can be assisted | Reading credibility and calculation re-check are your responsibility |
| Sample collection and testing | Collect and test air, water, gas, or solid samples | Sampling and testing record organization can be assisted | Sampling conditions and result interpretation are your responsibility |
| Tagging and isolation | Tag equipment awaiting repair and support isolation | List organization can be assisted | Isolation completeness and permit conditions are your responsibility |
| Decontamination and waste disposal | Determine and perform decontamination and hand over radioactive waste | Handover form organization can be assisted | Decontamination determination and waste destination are your responsibility |
| Accelerator and research support | Maintain the accelerator and coordinate support systems | Maintenance records and communication summaries can be assisted | System readiness judgment is your responsibility |
The following evidence separately explains technical capability, employer technology signals, and official statistical scope, with the sample, scope, and limitations stated alongside each item.
Different work directions in this occupation are affected differently, and the table below compares them by real task direction.
AI primarily changesLedgers, test records, and procedure retrieval can be assisted
Human responsibility remainsOperation and test conclusions
AI primarily changesUnit conversion and record organization can be assisted
Human responsibility remainsReading credibility and calculation re-check
AI primarily changesHandover forms and work lists can be organized with assistance
Human responsibility remainsDecontamination determination and isolation confirmation
Once tools enter the technical process, the chain of responsibility must not break: check the input, the conditions of use, the output re-check, the record documentation, and the anomaly escalation in sequence.
Confirm the work permit, equipment status, instrument verification status, background, and sampling conditions.
Process measurement and dose data within the facility's authorized system and under license conditions, and instruments must be within a valid verification period.
Qualified personnel re-check the readings, unit conversions, test determinations, and the organized content produced by tools.
Keep the original readings, re-test records, test ledgers, dose records, and isolation permit documents.
When a reading is abnormal, a test fails, or isolation is incomplete, stop work and report according to procedure.
May expose personnel to unnecessary irradiation or misjudge an area as releasable
Control: Check instrument verification and background, re-test, and re-check according to procedure
Affects dose limit judgments and occupational health traceability
Control: Calculate using standard formulas and conversion tables with two-person verification, and keep dose files
May allow equipment to run while faulty or be released in error
Control: Execute tests according to procedure, check acceptance criteria, and stop use when they fail
May cause injury to maintenance personnel or accidental equipment movement
Control: Tag and isolate according to procedure with joint confirmation by the permit issuer and the maintenance officer
Causes residual contamination and illegal transfer
Control: Decontaminate according to procedure, re-test, and mark and hand over radioactive waste properly
First use public textbooks and simulated data to practise reading classification, unit conversion, and record table formats; treat tools as practice and review assistants, and do not use them to replace on-site judgment or safety conclusions.
Use tools for equipment ledger organization, test data checking, and procedure retrieval; keep the original readings, instrument numbers, and reviewer signatures, and anything entering the formal record must be traceable to the original data.
Clarify which tool outputs may enter test and monitoring records and which must be manually re-checked; keep version and audit information, and file according to the operating organization's training assessment and dose record system.
First make up the basics of radiation protection, measurement, and equipment safety, then check the applicable training assessment and position authorization against the target nuclear facility or nuclear technology use activity; the 2019 platform system cannot be extrapolated to all nuclear facility positions, and Class III sales and use has a 2021 self-examination arrangement.
The available evidence does not support a substitution conclusion: O*NET does not provide the generative AI adoption rate for this occupation, and the employer technology signals are 8 office and data software items with no proportions; credibility judgments of readings, equipment test conclusions, decontamination handling, and isolation confirmation must still be completed by personnel who have passed training assessment.
Source: O*NET OnLineOriginal source ↗
Ledgers, procedure retrieval, same-dimension conversion, and report drafts are editorial candidate assistance; automatic instrument collection is verified separately under approved systems, and AI adoption is not inferred from the hot software list. Cross-cpm / Bq / μSv/h calculations require calibration and measurement conditions.
Source: O*NET OnLineOriginal source ↗
Judging whether a reading is credible, deciding whether equipment should stop being used, determining whether a surveillance test passes, determining the decontamination procedure and waste destination, and confirming whether isolation is complete.
Source: O*NET OnLineOriginal source ↗
O*NET Hot Technologies lists 8 software items but gives no proportions, showing only that employer mentions concentrate on office and data tools, and this does not prove proficiency or degree of automation.
Source: O*NET OnLineOriginal source ↗
Treat it as task-level analysis and read the current change and human control point columns row by row; do not read it as a causal conclusion about job substitution, layoffs, or cost changes.
Source: O*NET OnLineOriginal source ↗
Measurement and dose data must be processed within the facility's authorized system; instrument data connection must ensure data integrity and traceability, and tool output must be re-checked by qualified personnel before entering the formal record.
Source: O*NET OnLineOriginal source ↗
Original readings are traceable, re-testing and re-checking are documented, instrument verification and calibration are in place, test acceptance criteria are consistent, isolation and decontamination records are complete, and dose files and training records are complete.
Source: O*NET OnLineOriginal source ↗
When moving to an adjacent position, first compare transferable capabilities (radiation protection, instrument use, dose calculation, records, and compliance), then fill in the equipment authorization, medical knowledge, or license requirements specific to the target direction.
About 13,408 yuan per month (160,897 yuan per year ÷ 12, arithmetic equivalent of the industry average)
About 15,172 yuan per month (182,064 yuan per year ÷ 12, arithmetic equivalent of the industry average)
Public information on duties, training systems, and protection requirements can be used for career exploration but cannot be used to derive an individual mainland China income.
| Education segment | Position direction | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Related professional education | Enter a supervised technical position | Mainly nuclear technology or power engineering training. |
| Radiation safety training and assessment | A prerequisite for engaging in radiation activities | Health training before taking up a post is not less than 4 days, with two sessions no more than 2 years apart and each not less than 2 days; the ecology and environment assessment for nuclear technology use applies the 2019 reform and 2021 classification separately, and only Class III ray device sales and use personnel are assessed by the unit itself (result valid 5 years), not uniformly on the platform. |
| Radiation worker certificate and dose monitoring | A continuing condition for engaging in radiation work | Pre-post training is not less than 4 days, and two training sessions are no more than 2 years apart. |
| Facility position authorization and operator license | Determines the equipment that may be operated and the scope of work | Operating control systems requires an operator license. |
For an income judgment, return to the unit type, license scope, duty and overhaul arrangements, and specific position duties.
Check separately against the nuclear facility license and the applicable nuclear technology use activity, and also check duty and overhaul arrangements.
The technical support requirements for accelerators and research equipment must be checked.
The monitoring qualification and the scope of sampling and testing capability must be checked.
No Chinese wage distribution for this occupation has been obtained this round; the NBS industry average cannot replace an occupational median or percentile. Units producing, selling, and using isotopes and ray devices are checked for radiation safety permits under the applicable activity; nuclear facilities are managed under nuclear safety permits, and not all nuclear technology units can be uniformly called radiation license holders. Operating control systems requires the corresponding license and authorization; the regulations allow training under temporary authorization supervised by a licensed person for those not yet licensed, and this cannot be extrapolated to independent operation. Health training before taking up a post is not less than 4 days, with two sessions no more than 2 years apart and each not less than 2 days; the ecology and environment assessment for nuclear technology use applies the 2019 reform and 2021 classification separately, and only Class III ray device sales and use personnel are assessed by the unit itself (result valid 5 years), not uniformly on the platform. Personal external exposure monitoring is generally 30 days and at most 90 days, and lifelong retention of dose records follows the health authority measures.
| $47.65—$59.61 per hour |
| This also comes from the 2025 BLS OEWS national survey and cannot be directly compared with the pay conditions of a single facility or enterprise.；The 25th—75th percentiles likewise come from the 2025 BLS OEWS national survey and cannot be directly compared with the pay conditions of a single facility or a single enterprise. |
| 10th—90th percentile | $73,150—$133,600 per year | $35.17—$64.23 per hour | The two ends of the distribution: the low percentile is not a new graduate starting wage, and the high percentile does not represent the general level.；The 10th—90th percentiles reflect the two ends of the distribution: the low percentile is not a new graduate starting wage, and the high percentile does not represent the general level of practitioners. |
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10th percentile wage：$73,150 per year ($35.17 per hour)；2025 BLS OEWS national 10th percentile；the low percentile is not a new graduate starting wage
25th percentile wage：$99,110 per year ($47.65 per hour)；Same-scope national 25th percentile
Median wage：$110,240 per year ($53.00 per hour)；Same-scope national median；not starting pay or an individual offer
75th percentile wage：$123,990 per year ($59.61 per hour)；Same-scope national 75th percentile
90th percentile wage：$133,600 per year ($64.23 per hour)；Same-scope national 90th percentile
The median wage is a statistical position, not starting pay, and not an individual income promise.；OEWS includes incentive pay and production bonuses and excludes overtime premiums, shift differentials, and non-production bonuses and the like; it does not include self-employment, does not represent take-home income, and cannot rule out all standby or overhaul period wages.
The O*NET page publishes wages and employment data for 19-4051.00 separately, and this code contains two sub-directions.；The actual income of nuclear technician positions must be checked against unit status, duty arrangements, license category, and position authorization; U.S. figures cannot be converted into individual mainland China income, and the percentile range cannot be read as a job level sequence.
2025 U.S. nuclear technician employment stock is about 6,700, which is not current hiring.
BLS19-4051 nuclear technicians had about 6,700 employed in 2025 and about 6,800 in 2035, growth of 1.1% over 2025—2035, with 900 average annual openings; this is the combined nuclear technician scope and does not break out the equipment or monitoring directions.
| Industry | Industry distribution (O*NET 19-4051.00, the page does not provide wage shares) | Explanation |
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| Utilities（2025，54%） | The specific position must be checked | Unit status, reactor type, and duty arrangements of nuclear power plants and related utilities affect position content. |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services（2025，26%） | The specific position must be checked | The qualification scope of testing, engineering, and technical service institutions determines position duties. |
| Other industries (the remaining about 20%) | The specific position must be checked | The remaining share is the total outside the first two categories and does not follow the old sub-page 21% industry composition. |
| Research and other technical work scenarios | The specific position must be checked | The scenario is not a statistical industry share; nuclear medicine clinical personnel have separate clinical and licensing systems and are not extrapolated from nuclear technician wages. |
In the United States, check offers against the employer facility and material license, equipment and position authorization, and duty and overhaul arrangements.
U.S. employers may require certification, background checks, and security clearance; a Chinese radiation worker certificate is not a general U.S. qualification. Reactor operator work is separately regulated by the NRC.
Check how on-site exposure conditions, protective equipment requirements, and duty and overhaul period overtime affect the actual conditions.
BLS19-4051 nuclear technicians had about 6,700 employed in 2025 and about 6,800 in 2035, growth of 1.1% over 2025—2035, with 900 average annual openings；this is the combined nuclear technician scope and does not break out the equipment or monitoring directions.
BLS19-4051 nuclear technicians had about 6,700 employed in 2025 and about 6,800 in 2035, growth of 1.1% over 2025—2035, with 900 average annual openings；this is the combined nuclear technician scope and does not break out the equipment or monitoring directions.
BLS19-4051 nuclear technicians had about 6,700 employed in 2025 and about 6,800 in 2035, growth of 1.1% over 2025—2035, with 900 average annual openings；this is the combined nuclear technician scope and does not break out the equipment or monitoring directions.
Does my interest type match nuclear technicians?
The key signals of fit for this occupation are: being able to maintain protection and recording habits over the long term, being willing to repeat measurements and tests according to procedure, being able to stop work and escalate when a reading is abnormal, and being able to hand over clearly with maintenance and operations personnel; interest codes and work style labels cannot determine fit, and you must return to real tasks and mentoring evaluation.
Do not use it this way: Interest codes describe only activity preferences and cannot predict technical ability, training assessment results, or hiring opportunities.
Explore occupational interests (RIASEC)Are my personality traits suited to this kind of on-site technical work?
The Big Five describes relatively stable behavioral tendencies, which is not the same layer of concept as position requirements; fit should be judged by real task performance, mentoring feedback, and training assessment results.
Do not use it this way: Do not use personality labels to replace the real test of protection habits, recording discipline, and on-site adaptability.
Explore occupational interests (RIASEC)Can MBTI show whether I am suited to this occupation?
MBTI uses types to describe preferences, is not a measure of ability or competence, and cannot predict actual performance in nuclear facility technical positions.
Do not use it this way: Treating type labels as fixed conclusions obscures checking and recording habits that can be developed through training.
Explore occupational interests (RIASEC)Can the Enneagram help me judge occupational fit?
The Enneagram is an exploratory self-understanding tool and has no verified correspondence with position competence, qualification conditions, or safety performance.
Do not use it this way: Do not write type interpretations as definitive conclusions about risk tolerance or safety awareness.
Explore occupational interests (RIASEC)Can cognitive ability assessment show whether I can do this occupation?
Cognitive assessment measures item performance in a specific context and is not equal to the instrument operation, dose conversion, and on-site judgment ability required by this occupation.
Do not use it this way: A high score does not mean you can handle on-site technical work, and a low score does not constitute a conclusion that you should not be considered.
Explore occupational interests (RIASEC)What is the relationship between emotional intelligence assessment and this occupation?
Emotional intelligence assessment describes self-reported social and emotional tendencies; more directly relevant to this occupation are clear communication with maintenance and operations personnel and observable behavior of escalating according to procedure.
Do not use it this way: Do not interpret differences in communication style as unsuitability for safety-related positions.
Explore occupational interests (RIASEC)Fits better when: Radiation and contamination measurement, dose records
Watch for: If you prefer measurement and sampling over equipment operation
Explore related career: Nuclear Monitoring TechniciansFits better when: Main control room operating duty and control operations
Watch for: If you are willing to pass the operator license assessment
Explore related career: Power Plant OperatorsFits better when: Nuclear facility design, safety analysis, and technical support
Watch for: If you prefer engineering analysis over on-site technical work
Explore related career: Nuclear EngineersFits better when: Radiographic and ultrasonic testing, defect determination
Watch for: If you want to work in industrial inspection and flaw detection
Explore related career: Nondestructive Testing SpecialistsFits better when: Occupational health and safety risk identification and training
Watch for: If you want to handle a variety of occupational health topics across industries
Explore related career: Occupational Health SpecialistsFits better when: Environmental sampling, monitoring, and data analysis
Watch for: If you prefer environmental media monitoring over nuclear facility equipment
Explore related career: Environmental science and protection techniciansRadiation protection and instrument use, dose units and conversion, equipment testing and surveillance testing, sample collection and decontamination, and recording and compliance awareness.
No; interest codes describe only activity preferences, and fit should be judged by educational performance, training assessment, mentoring evaluation, and actual technical tasks.
O*NET classifies it as Job Zone 3 (SVP 6.0 to under 7.0), where most require vocational school training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree; the page does not publish the education composition distribution.
Units producing, selling, and using isotopes and ray devices are checked for radiation safety permits under the applicable activity; nuclear facilities are managed under nuclear safety permits, and not all nuclear technology units can be uniformly called radiation license holders. Operating control systems requires the corresponding license and authorization; the regulations allow training under temporary authorization supervised by a licensed person for those not yet licensed, and this cannot be extrapolated to independent operation. Health training before taking up a post is not less than 4 days, with two sessions no more than 2 years apart and each not less than 2 days; the ecology and environment assessment for nuclear technology use applies the 2019 reform and 2021 classification separately, and only Class III ray device sales and use personnel are assessed by the unit itself (result valid 5 years), not uniformly on the platform. U.S. employers may require certification and background security checks, and NRC-controlled operator licenses are managed separately.
Entry is possible through related professional education or facility training, but training assessment must be passed and position authorization requirements met; experience in other industries cannot directly replace qualification and authorization.
The O*NET work context table is a 0—100 standardized score: radiation 92, common protection 95, specialized protection 64, accuracy 95, consequences of error 80, responsibility for others' safety 82; these are not a 92% of staff exposed or an incident probability, and the scores cannot be read as the proportion of a response option.
BLS19-4051 nuclear technicians had about 6,700 employed in 2025 and about 6,800 in 2035, growth of 1.1% over 2025—2035, with 900 average annual openings; this is the combined nuclear technician scope and does not break out the equipment or monitoring directions.
Keep training assessment records, dose monitoring and occupational health files, original measurement point and test records, sample testing reports, decontamination and waste handover forms, and isolation permit documents.
No; assessment is only for self-exploration and does not constitute proof of ability, onboarding qualification, or position authorization.
Use fictional equipment readings and measurement records to complete one classification and record table exercise, and ask qualified personnel for feedback, avoiding real measurement or entering a controlled area.
Possible consequence：Possible consequences | a wrong reading or contamination judgment puts personnel at unnecessary radiation risk, and incomplete decontamination or improper waste disposal causes residual contamination and illegal transfer; incomplete isolation may cause injury to maintenance personnel or accidental equipment movement; missing records and dose files affect occupational health traceability and regulatory compliance.
How to reduce risk：Check instrument verification and background, re-test, and have qualified personnel re-check the determination according to procedure
Evidence：Regulations on the Safety and Protection of Radioactive Isotopes and Ray Devices · O*NET 19-4051.00 occupation profile
Typical scenario：Failing to calculate using standard formulas and conversion tables, or missing records or after-the-fact entries
Roles most affected：Technical positions responsible for dose calculation and monitoring records
Possible consequence：Dose limit judgments are distorted, and occupational health traceability and compliance checks cannot be supported
How to reduce risk：Calculate using a substantiated formula, calibration, and measurement conditions, re-check according to institutional procedure, and keep dose files in accordance with law
Evidence：Measures for the Occupational Health Management of Radiation Workers · O*NET 19-4051.00 occupation profile
Typical scenario：Failing to execute testing and surveillance testing according to the specified procedure, or continuing to use equipment after a failed test
Roles most affected：Positions responsible for equipment testing and surveillance testing
Possible consequence：Equipment runs while faulty or is released in error, threatening facility and personnel safety
How to reduce risk：Test according to procedure, check acceptance criteria, and stop use and report when they fail
Evidence：Regulations on the Safety and Protection of Radioactive Isotopes and Ray Devices · O*NET 19-4051.00 occupation profile
Typical scenario：Lockout, tagging, and isolation measures are incomplete, or isolation is removed before restoration conditions are confirmed
Roles most affected：Positions performing tagging and isolation and maintenance coordination
Possible consequence：Maintenance personnel are injured or equipment moves accidentally
How to reduce risk：Tag and isolate according to procedure, with the permit issuer and the maintenance officer jointly confirming restoration conditions
Evidence：Regulations on the Safety and Protection of Radioactive Isotopes and Ray Devices · O*NET 19-4051.00 occupation profile
Typical scenario：Applying for release without re-testing after decontamination, or failing to classify, mark, and properly hand over radioactive waste
Roles most affected：Positions exposed to decontamination work and radioactive waste
Possible consequence：Residual contamination and illegal transfer affecting personnel and environmental safety
How to reduce risk：Decontaminate and re-test according to procedure, and mark, register, and hand over radioactive waste properly
Evidence：Regulations on the Safety and Protection of Radioactive Isotopes and Ray Devices · O*NET 19-4051.00 occupation profile
Typical scenario：Working without the applicable assessment or position authorization, or independently operating a control system without the corresponding license; supervised training is handled under the statutory temporary authorization exception
Roles most affected：All technical positions and temporary support personnel
Possible consequence：Acting beyond authority brings personnel safety and compliance risk and is punishable by law
How to reduce risk：Work within the scope of training assessment and position authorization, and refer matters beyond scope to the corresponding responsible person or competent department
Evidence：Provisions on the Qualification Management of Civil Nuclear Facility Operators · Regulations on the Safety and Protection of Radioactive Isotopes and Ray Devices
Units producing, selling, and using isotopes and ray devices are checked for radiation safety permits under the applicable activity; nuclear facilities are managed under nuclear safety permits, and not all nuclear technology units can be uniformly called radiation license holders. Operating control systems requires the corresponding license and authorization; the regulations allow training under temporary authorization supervised by a licensed person for those not yet licensed, and this cannot be extrapolated to independent operation. Education, professional certification, the health worker certificate, training assessment, unit licensing, and position authorization are checked separately.
| career.column.stage | career.column.task | career.column.boundary | career.column.evidence | career.column.next |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supervised learning stage | Learn radiation protection, instrument use, and record norms under mentoring | Do not independently operate equipment or issue isolation permits | Training records and mentoring evaluation | Pass training assessment and obtain position authorization |
| Routine technical position stage | Independently complete equipment testing, surveillance testing, and radiation measurement records | Execute according to procedure and position authorization |
Show measurement point numbers, instrument numbers, background, readings, dose calculation, and the reviewer
Does not prove real measurement ability or area radiation levels
Show test items, acceptance criteria, results, and anomaly handling
Does not replace real equipment testing or safety conclusions
Show equipment numbers, isolation method, permit issuer, and restoration conditions
Does not grant equipment operation or maintenance permit authority
Use a fictional equipment list to write out test items, acceptance criteria, and reviewer signatures.
Write out the measurement points, instruments, background, readings, and testing methods.
Write out the decontamination method, re-test results, waste category, and handover destination.
Write out equipment numbers, isolation method, permit issuer, and restoration conditions.
| career.column.scenario | career.column.action | career.column.review | career.column.evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| The reading exceeds the unit's investigation level or approaches the limit | Record and re-test, stop work, and escalate according to procedure | Confirmed and handled by the radiation protection officer | Re-test records and escalation notes |
| Equipment testing or surveillance testing fails | Stop using that equipment and apply for maintenance and re-testing | Confirmed by the operations or maintenance officer | Test records and maintenance orders |
| Tagging or isolation is incomplete |
Read the O*NET 19-4051.00 task list and draw the boundary between this occupation and nuclear monitoring and operator positions.
Use a fictional floor plan to make a measurement point record table, writing out measurement point numbers, instrument numbers, background, readings, and judgments.
Organize the meanings and conversion relationships of units such as μSv/h, cpm, and Bq, and give examples of common reading ranges.
Organize the key points of air, water, and surface contamination sampling and the decontamination and waste handover process.
Organize the steps, permit conditions, and restoration requirements for tagging and isolating equipment awaiting repair.
Use three fictional reading sets to practise the judgment of normal / needs re-check / should stop work and escalate and the escalation path.
| career.column.state | career.column.proof | career.column.authority | career.column.condition | career.column.gap | career.column.owner | career.column.next |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Related professional education or vocational college training | The educational foundation for entering training and the position path | Provided by schools or training institutions | Check against the major and internship requirements | Education is not equal to onboarding qualification or position authorization | Educational institutions and operating organizations | Check the course and internship content |
| Radiation safety training and assessment |
Typical scope：Learn equipment principles, test procedures, and record norms under mentoring
Readiness evidence：Training records and mentoring evaluation (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Related professional education or facility training
Next moves：Pass radiation safety training assessment
Typical scope：Independently complete equipment testing, surveillance testing, and records
Readiness evidence：Test records and reviewer signatures (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Radiation Worker Certificate and position authorization
Next moves：Take on anomaly identification and re-testing
Typical scope：Identify non-conformance and perform re-testing, reporting, and maintenance coordination
Readiness evidence：Anomaly records and maintenance orders (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Facility special authorization
Next moves：Participate in overhaul tests and equipment improvement
Typical scope：Guide new colleagues and participate in procedure, equipment, and record improvement
Readiness evidence：Training records and improvement suggestions (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Institutional appointment or corresponding qualification
Next moves：Participate in facility technical decision support
Typical scope：Learn dose units, instrument use, and personal dose monitoring requirements
Readiness evidence：Instrument use records (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Related professional education or training experience
Next moves：Take on routine measurement tasks
Typical scope：Complete work area and material radiation measurement and calculate dose and operating factors
Readiness evidence：Measurement records and calculation re-check (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Position authorization
Next moves：Participate in contamination surveys and decontamination recommendations
Typical scope：Perform contamination surveys, decontamination work, and waste handover
Readiness evidence：Contamination monitoring and decontamination records (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Radiation protection special training
Typical scope：Learn accelerator and research equipment principles and safety requirements
Readiness evidence：Equipment learning records (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Related professional education or training experience
Next moves：Participate in auxiliary system maintenance
Typical scope：Perform testing, maintenance, and repair on accelerator systems and record the results
Readiness evidence：Maintenance and test records (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Facility special authorization
Next moves：Participate in system upgrades and commissioning
Typical scope：Participate in upgrading and readiness confirmation of support systems such as vacuum, water cooling, and radio frequency power
Readiness evidence：Commissioning records and readiness confirmation (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Special training and authorization
Capability progression should start with supervised learning of radiation protection, instrument use, and record norms, then after obtaining training assessment and position authorization independently take on equipment testing, surveillance testing, and radiation measurement, then participate in anomaly handling, decontamination, and overhaul support, and finally enter technical guidance and procedure improvement; each step is premised on training assessment records, dose monitoring records, and facility position authorization.
Independently complete equipment testing, surveillance testing, and radiation measurement records according to procedure, and explain the background, readings, and basis of judgment.
Identify abnormal readings and equipment non-conformance, perform re-testing, decontamination, and anomaly reporting, and escalate when beyond scope.
Participate in overhaul isolation, special tests, and equipment maintenance coordination, guide new colleagues, and participate in procedure and record improvement.
Does not establish：Macro projections are not a personal hiring guarantee; industry distribution does not indicate a specific facility's license level, duty arrangements, or position authorization; U.S. data cannot be converted into mainland China individual income or employment opportunities.
United States national (precise occupational scope) · O*NET National Wages 19-4051.00（2025 BLS OEWS）
Median 110,240 U.S. dollars per year; annual wage percentiles 73,150—133,600 U.S. dollars
Occupational wage distribution (United States)
The page gives median and quintile wages under the precise occupational scope 19-4051.00.
Does not establish：OEWS includes incentive pay and production bonuses and excludes overtime premiums, shift differentials, and non-production bonuses and the like; it does not include self-employment, does not represent take-home income, and cannot rule out all standby or overhaul period wages.
Mainland China (industry category scope) · National Bureau of Statistics 2025 average wage of urban unit employed persons, industry category scope
Electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply non-private 160,897 yuan per year; scientific research and technical services non-private 182,064 yuan per year (2025)
Chinese industry category wage averages (proxy values)
The National Bureau of Statistics publishes average wages by industry category and does not list nuclear technicians separately.
Does not establish：The industry category average does not list this occupation separately and excludes self-employed individuals and freelancers.
These are capability relationships, not automatic promotions or credential waivers.
Transfers：Radiation protection basics, dose units, and recording awareness
Build next：Needs added training in sampling, testing, and contamination survey methods
View career profileTransfers：Nuclear facility system knowledge and procedure awareness
Build next：Needs to pass the operator license assessment and long-term duty training
View career profileTransfers：Nuclear physics and thermal-hydraulic foundations
Build next：Needs added engineering degree and safety analysis training
View career profileTransfers：Radiation safety and testing foundations
Build next：Needs added training in testing methods and assessment rules
View career profileTransfers：Hazard identification and compliance awareness
Build next：Needs added knowledge of occupational health and safety management systems
View career profileTransfers：Sampling, testing, and data analysis foundations
Build next：Needs added environmental monitoring standards and ecological knowledge
View career profileTransfers：Laboratory operation and sample handling
Build next：Needs added chemical analysis and laboratory standards training
View career profileTransfers：On-site protection, decontamination, and waste disposal awareness
Build next：Needs added on-site clearance operations and equipment operation training
View career profileUnder the O*NET nuclear technician code 19-4051.00 there are two sub-directions, 19-4051.01 Nuclear Equipment Operation Technicians and 19-4051.02 Nuclear Monitoring Technicians: the nuclear monitoring direction takes the measurement, sampling, testing, and protection oversight of radiation and contamination as its main line; this occupation, while assisting engineering and research, takes on equipment operation, testing, surveillance testing, and decontamination; reactor operators are responsible for operating nuclear facility control systems, and in China must hold an Operator License or a Senior Operator License, and those without a license may not operate the control system.
The available evidence does not support a substitution conclusion: O*NET does not provide the generative AI adoption rate for this occupation, its Hot Technologies lists only 8 employer-mentioned software items with no proportions given on the page; judgments about reading credibility, conclusions from equipment testing and surveillance testing, decontamination and radioactive waste disposal, and confirmation of tagging and isolation must still be completed by personnel who have passed training assessment and are within the authorized scope.
Equipment ledger and test data organization, procedure and regulation retrieval, unit conversion and report compilation, drafting training materials, and automatic collection and anomaly alerts for some instrument data. These steps must still check instrument status, background, and sampling conditions and retain the original readings and re-check records, and tool output cannot be written directly into formal test or monitoring records.
Judging whether a reading is credible, deciding whether equipment should stop being used, determining whether a surveillance test passes, determining the decontamination procedure and waste destination, confirming whether tagging and isolation are complete, and assessing personnel exposure and the extent of contamination. The observable verification is: original readings are traceable, re-testing and re-checking are documented, anomalies are reported according to procedure, and dose files and training records are complete.
The 2025 BLS OEWS shown by O*NET gives a median annual wage of 110,240 U.S. dollars and a median hourly wage of 53.00 U.S. dollars for the precise occupation 19-4051.00, with annual wage percentiles of 73,150—133,600 U.S. dollars; the survey excludes self-employment income and does not reflect night shift, rotation, standby, or overhaul period allowances, and is not an individual's take-home income. Mainland China has not published a corresponding national occupational wage distribution, so this page shows only the 2025 averages for the two categories electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply and scientific research and technical services as reference.
O*NET classifies this occupation as Job Zone 3 (SVP 6.0 to under 7.0), where most occupations require vocational school training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree; the occupation code profile is only partially available and the page does not publish the new hire education composition distribution. Actual requirements follow the target facility's training system and employer announcements.
Radiation work units in China must obtain a radiation safety license, and radiation workers must complete pre-post training (not less than 4 days) and periodic on-the-job training (two sessions no more than 2 years apart) and undergo personal dose monitoring; since 2020-01-01, people newly engaging in radiation activities must register and take the assessment through the national nuclear technology use radiation safety and protection training platform; operating nuclear facility control systems also requires an operator license. The United States has no single mandatory license covering all employers, but reactor operator licenses are managed separately by the NRC.
First use fictional data to complete a reading classification and record table exercise and confirm whether you can accept on-site exposure, protective equipment, and a rigorous recording work style; then check the relevant education, training assessment, and facility position authorization requirements in the target area. The exercise does not constitute real measurement or onboarding qualification and cannot replace training assessment and occupational health examinations.
Judge interests, real conditions, and position characteristics together: this occupation works in facilities where radiation exposure is possible, requires high precision and carries serious consequences of error (O*NET shows 92% exposed to radiation, 95% consider precision extremely important, 80% report extremely serious consequences of error, and 82% are responsible for the health and safety of others), and may require duty and overhaul period overtime; U.S. employment is projected to decline but average annual openings remain. The next step should be checking the target facility's training and position authorization path, radiation safety training assessment arrangements, and personal dose monitoring and occupational health examination requirements.
The evidence on this page supports only scope-level judgments within the marked market, occupational scope, and period, and does not constitute individual income, hiring, or practice authorization; equipment operation, radiation measurement, decontamination, and radioactive waste disposal must be carried out according to procedure by personnel who have passed training assessment and obtained facility position authorization, and operating nuclear facility control systems additionally requires an operator license.
This round was accessed 2026-10-11; wages and employment 2025, projection 2025—2035, industry detail 2025; the ecology and environment classification assessment 2021 combined with 2019.
This round read the O*NET19-4051 partially available parent profile with 18 tasks (7 Core, 9 Supplemental, 2 New), with work context as a 0—100 score rather than a proportion; RCI and JobZone3, with no education composition given. U.S. 2025 wages and employment, the 2025—2035 BLS projection, and 2025 industry detail; Chinese NBS industry averages are kept separate from nuclear facility / nuclear technology use / health systems. Old errors from shared sources are noted in the author report.
Limitations：The internal scale is used only for task-level discussion and does not constitute an empirical conclusion about individuals, institutions, or the market.
Limitations：The overview page does not provide authoritative wage, license, or position authorization scope; the facts on this page follow O*NET and regulatory sources.
Limitations：Industry category average wages cannot be treated as the nuclear technician occupational median, starting pay, or individual income.
Limitations：U.S. occupational work context scope; no mainland China occupational mapping or position authorization conclusion is established.
Limitations：U.S. occupational scope; the page notes that the occupation code profile is only partially available.
Limitations：The program list is not equal to a license, certification, or employer appointment; the education composition distribution is not published with this occupation code.
Limitations：This is the U.S. preparation level scope; specific education and training requirements follow the employer and facility training system.
Limitations：U.S. interest and work style scope; the page notes that the profile is only partially available.
Limitations：U.S. occupational task scope; does not include mainland China qualification or position authorization conclusions.
Limitations：OEWS is a survey of institutional wage and salary employees, excludes self-employment income, does not reflect night shift, standby, or overtime allowances, and is not an individual's take-home income.
Limitations：Used only for the listed O*NET occupation and the U.S. market; does not establish a mainland China occupational mapping or statutory authorization.
Limitations：Used only for the listed O*NET occupation and the U.S. market; does not include Chinese qualification or wage conclusions.
Limitations：Employer mentions do not prove proficiency, generative AI adoption rates, or degree of automation.
Limitations：Industry distribution does not indicate a specific institution's license level, duty arrangements, or position authorization.
Limitations：The certification search entry point does not grant practice authority; reactor operator licenses are managed separately by the regulatory body.
Limitations：The program and apprenticeship list is not equal to a license, certification, or employer position authorization.
Limitations：OEWS excludes self-employment income and night shift and standby allowances and is not an individual's take-home income.
Limitations：U.S. education and interest scope, not including license, certification, or position authorization conclusions.
Limitations：Sets out the operating organization's responsibility and personnel training and protection obligations; specific licenses and position authorizations are determined by the corresponding regulations.
Limitations：Sets out the operator license system; a technical position in this occupation that has not obtained a license may not operate the control system, and specific position authorization is determined by the operating organization.
Limitations：Sets out licensing, training assessment, and dose monitoring requirements; specific position authority is still determined by the license conditions and institutional systems.
Limitations：Sets out training, dose monitoring, and file requirements for radiation workers; does not specify the technical operating authorization for an individual position.
Limitations：The 2019 centralized platform reform must be combined with the 2021 self-examination for Class III ray device sales and use units; the nuclear technology use system is not extrapolated to all nuclear facility personnel.
Limitations：Limited to the stated scope; no guarantee of qualification, wages, or hiring.
Limitations：Limited to the stated scope; no guarantee of qualification, wages, or hiring.
Limitations：Limited to the stated scope; no guarantee of qualification, wages, or hiring.
Limitations：Limited to the stated scope; no guarantee of qualification, wages, or hiring.
Limitations：Editorial ratings use the existing occupational responsibilities and AI task analysis on this page. They are not adoption rates, measured effects, job-disappearance or personal-unemployment probabilities, or official scores from Stanford or another external institution. No measured time weights or future robot deployment are assumed.
The evidence supports only scope-level judgments within the marked market, occupational scope, and period, and does not constitute individual income, hiring, or practice authorization; equipment operation, radiation measurement, decontamination, and radioactive waste disposal must be carried out according to procedure by personnel who have passed training assessment and obtained facility position authorization.
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| Record |
| Step 6 | Perform decontamination and hand over radioactive waste | Handle |
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| Step 7 | Stop work and report according to procedure on anomalies | Escalate |
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Operating organization
Regulatory authorities
| Take on anomaly identification and decontamination work |
| Anomaly and decontamination stage | Identify abnormal readings and perform re-testing and decontamination work | Anomaly judgments must be escalated according to procedure | Anomaly records and decontamination handover forms | Take on overhaul support and special tests |
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| Overhaul and special test stage | Participate in overhaul isolation, special tests, and equipment maintenance coordination | Execute according to the overhaul plan and permit | Isolation records and special test reports | Take on technical guidance and training |
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| Technical guidance stage | Guide new colleagues and participate in procedure, equipment, and record improvement | Does not replace the radiation protection officer's responsibility | Training records and improvement suggestions | Continue developing along the facility path |
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| Confirmed by the permit issuer and the maintenance officer |
| Isolation records and permit forms |
| Contamination occurs or decontamination is incomplete | Isolate and monitor according to procedure and decontaminate again | Handled by the radiation protection officer | Contamination monitoring and decontamination records |
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Review which steps must be manually re-checked and which conditions require immediately stopping work, and list the regulations and training still to be added.
| One of the prerequisites for engaging in radiation activities |
| Check according to the 2019 centralized assessment and the 2021 Class III sales and use unit self-examination classification |
| Check according to the assessment subjects and validity period |
| Assessment is not equal to position authorization |
| Ecology and environment departments and training platforms |
| Check the assessment subjects and results |
| Radiation Worker Certificate (China) | A prerequisite for engaging in radiation work | Applied for by the unit with the health administrative department | Check against the training and occupational health examination requirements | The certificate is not equal to a practice qualification | Health authorities and the unit | Check the application and training records |
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| Facility position authorization | Determines which equipment may be operated and which procedures may be executed | Authorized by the operating organization according to position and license conditions | Check against the position description, training, and dose records | The authorization scope must not be extrapolated | Employer and facility manager | Check the authorization documents and duty roster |
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| Operator License (China, control system operation only) | A prerequisite for operating nuclear facility control systems | Approved and issued by the State Council nuclear safety regulatory department | Check against the education, health, and training assessment conditions | Those without a license may not operate independently; training under temporary authorization and licensed supervision follows Article 3 | State Council nuclear safety regulatory department and the operating organization | Check the license conditions and validity period |
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| Professional certification or special qualification | Proof of competence with a specific device or method | Awarded by the corresponding certification body or competent department | Check against the examination and maintenance requirements | Certification is not equal to a license or facility authorization | Certification bodies | Check the certification and maintenance requirements |
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Next moves：Participate in protection plans and training
Typical scope：Responsible for measurement plans, instrument calibration, and protection training
Readiness evidence：Plan documents and training records (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Institutional appointment or corresponding qualification
Next moves：Participate in facility radiation safety decisions
Next moves：Take on technical support for research projects
Typical scope：Responsible for experimental facility modification, safety assessment, and cross-department coordination
Readiness evidence：Project records and assessment documents (editorial suggestion, not a uniform employer assessment requirement)
Credential boundary：Institutional appointment or corresponding qualification
Next moves：Participate in building new facilities
