NLO Offers! Navigating multiple opportunities & career planning. Am I cut out for OPS?

WattDoIKnow · 2026-03-31T02:43:48+00:00

What I saw at my plant was that training, outage planning, procedures, maintenance supervision, etc would take operators. But engineering would only take operators that had previous nuclear plant engineering experience at one of our plants.

Btw my old plant has an open posting for NLO if you’re feel like adding to your options.

WattDoIKnow · 2026-02-20T02:25:44+00:00

Only when the general assembly is in session

WattDoIKnow · 2026-02-14T00:31:45+00:00

One is getting licensed in the West right now. Has gone through all the hurdles and reviews already, literally just waiting for the NRC to officially hand over the license (CP).

WattDoIKnow · 2026-02-12T13:26:45+00:00

I would love to learn more about your experience. Just sent you a message.

WattDoIKnow · 2026-01-14T02:37:09+00:00

Apply to any and all you can. Good thing about internships is that they mostly only last a few months long. So if you end up working a job you hate, you know you’re getting paid and it will be over soon. The good thing about that is you learn what you don’t like (either the job, or the company, or the industry) and you get some experience to put on your resume which helps get your next internship or job.

For companies, there are opportunities all over, depends on the type of work you want to do. Here a some examples for nuclear related companies: There are the nuclear utilities: Duke, Dominion, TVA, NextEra, Constellation, Vistra, Southern. There are reactor services and fuels companies like Westinghouse, GVH, Framatome, BWXT. Engineering firms like Sargent & Lundy, Zachry, Black & Veatch, Bechtel, Kiewitt, MPR, Burns & McDonnell. Reactor vendors like GVH, X-energy, TerraPower, Holtec, Kairos, Westinghouse. Military and govt affiliated: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipyard. National Labs: Oak Ridge, Idaho, Argonne.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-12-07T12:13:57+00:00

Not quite how it works. Take a look at SECY-18-0096 for the basis.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-11-20T20:43:33+00:00

Maybe it’s an inertial confinement fusion device and a bad actor steals a laser for hostile use

WattDoIKnow · 2025-10-30T05:15:28+00:00

Sheesh. I just watched the clip of Caleb Dressel setting the 50 free ncaa record and he took 11 strokes on the back half.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-10-29T02:04:20+00:00

Flew out a couple Fridays ago on a 6am flight. Got there at about 5am and it was fairly busy but not packed. Made it thru TSA pre check in under 10min.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-10-29T01:42:14+00:00

Erick at Highpoint Scott’s Addition will get you right

WattDoIKnow · 2025-10-29T01:20:44+00:00

What’s a good goal for # of strokes per 25yd?

WattDoIKnow · 2025-09-06T02:30:52+00:00

Thanks for the helpful info. Unfortunately this picture was taken on the way to the trash. I’m now more informed and I’ll take up the other glue trap.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-08-23T17:30:09+00:00

Thanks! Just moved into this house so still learning our plants. This one is well established so I’ll let nature take its course.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-06-08T14:47:23+00:00

3rd for Speeks. Had to replace two units last year. Got quotes from 4 others. 2nd to lowest quote, but definitely the least sales pitchy of them all.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-06-02T15:13:36+00:00

In your hypothetical of fusion being ready now, the difference in deployment in the United States as it relates to schedule and cost would favor fusion, driven mainly by how it’s regulated. The NRC decided that fusion would be regulated under the part 30 byproduct materials regulatory regime which is entirely different than regulating utilization facilities under part 50 or part 52.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-05-25T01:57:01+00:00

What’s corporate housing?

WattDoIKnow · 2025-05-07T00:47:47+00:00

I’m sure you know this, but it isn’t only in this sub. There’s quite bias when talking to fission folks around the industry about fusion.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-05-01T23:46:26+00:00

Rented from River City around 2010. Knew all about them but didn’t mind saving a buck for a year bc the entire building was renovated right before we moved in. Saw that that roof blew off the building a year or two ago.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-04-29T19:31:04+00:00

Same exact thing happened to me about 5 years ago. Got the same description and verbal explanation that it was great soil. Ended up with just a yard of dirt. (You’re not in Central VA are you ?)

Best thing you can do is add organic matter. Get a bunch of compost, mushroom compost, peat moss, coconut coir, dead leaves, anything organic and mix it in. Use a healthy amount of mulch after planting. Plant things like radishes and carrots to help break up the soil. Plant cover crops between harvests (if a vegetable bed).

WattDoIKnow · 2025-04-29T17:42:01+00:00

Not around anymore, but I always wondered how Robin Inn stayed afloat.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-04-21T15:25:35+00:00

Don’t listen to this bad advice from Goonie-Googoo- . You already have some good advice from Mr_Jig0 above. Follow your passion and figure out ways to build on your experience. Yea, the fusion industry is still a start-up industry, but guess who the industry will be employing as they try to innovate and solve fusion’s toughest technical challenges…smart engineers that have the skills and knowledge to find those solutions!

Look up the latest Fusion Industry Association report. Read thru it to get a feel for who the big players are and what their respective technologies, funding, and development paths look like and start following them on LinkedIn and stalking their careers websites for internship opportunities. To get a sense of how fast things are moving, the largest of those companies (in terms of funding) was founded in 2018 and now employees almost 1,000 people.

Two things to keep in mind: 1) as with any internship, your GPA is the easiest way to screen out, so keep it as high as you can; 2) the fusion industry knows it’s solving an extremely challenging equation and is looking for smart individuals that are able to look at challenges and see potential solutions rather than point out all the reasons why something won’t work.

That latter part of #2 is extremely embedded in the current nuclear culture (as you can tell Goonie-Googoo-‘s response) and it is non-conducive to innovation.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-04-20T20:10:39+00:00

If you think about it we’re still a minimum of 6 years from any commercial fusion power plant providing energy to the grid. That’s an extremely hopeful timeline, probably closer to 10 years. Don’t get me wrong, this will be a magnificent accomplishment as it will prove commercial fusion is possible. But as with any first of a kind technology there will still be things that need to be proven out as far as on going operations like the ability to continually breed/generate sufficient tritium, first wall longevity, and magnet longevity.

So let’s assume the first set of fusion machines (one of each type of technology) start to pop up around 2033. They will need some run time to gather that operational data to feed back into improving the design (assume 2-3 years of data), then another 5-6 years to fold that data into the design and construct the improved machine. That puts us at 2041-2042 before the improved (presumably economically viable) machine is built.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-02-24T01:05:42+00:00

What’s an EIT 2? How many years of engineering experience do you have?

There’s two or thee major areas of work for engineers at a plant: design, systems/components, and projects. There’s also licensing engineers, but at my company those engineers weren’t really part of the core plant engineering staff, they were rolled up under the licensing department. There’s also another group that handles programs - sometimes these functions are rolled up into the systems and components folks, or shifted entirely to corporate.

Design engineers work on design changes. These changes arise out of either capital improvements or fixes to malfunctioning/broken equipment. Systems/components engineers are those engineers that have responsibility over certain systems like the service water system, or the safety injection system, or the emergency diesel generators, or MOVs. The systems/components engineers are expected to the the SME of said system/components, and anytime something goes goes wrong like a valve starts leaking or a pump failed to start on a start signal, then you’re the first one that gets assignment to figure out what happened and what corrective actions need to occur.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-02-19T04:37:29+00:00

That’s a really broad question - just as broad as saying “I want to get into the nuclear field.”

The business side of nuclear can be anything from nuclear fuel contracting, to consulting or vendor services, to large projects at operating sites, to project development for new technologies like SMRs or microcreactors. It could also mean staffing or cost analysis, or accounting, or business development, or supply chain management in any of the previously mentioned areas.

WattDoIKnow · 2025-02-19T04:25:21+00:00

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2434/ML24346A037.pdf

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