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National Compensation Survey - Wages

A049 NUCLEAR ENGINEERS

Major Occupational Groups: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | K
About the Occupational Classification System Manual
MOG A—Professional Occupations
Engineers, Architects, and Surveyors
A049 NUCLEAR ENGINEERS
Perform a variety of engineering work in research, design, development, testing, operating, and maintaining nuclear plant and equipment, such as reactor cores, radiation shielding, and associated instrumentation and control mechanisms for the release, control, and utilization of nuclear energy. May direct operating and maintenance activities of an operational nuclear facility.
(Work requires knowledge of engineering equivalent to at least that acquired through completion of 4-year college engineering program.)

Last modified: October 16, 2001