u/RadTechMJ

Hey everybody, I work in commercial nuclear as a radiation protection technician (RP Tech).

I work across the U.S. at different power plants for their outages. Outages are when the plant shuts down power production to refuel for another 2 years of being online.
Each outage lasts about one month and I tend to work around 5 outages a year and take the remainder 7 months off. I could work less or more but that seems to be my balance.

I make about $120,000 a year or $22,000 a month/outage.
I enjoy the work and time off- if anybody has any questions hit me up in the comments section.

I’d love to answer any questions.

For anybody looking to get into a high paying career with no college degree with about 1 month of training to pass a few tests, I highly recommend Commercial Nuclear as a contractor.
The pay is about $15,000 a month starting wages for decontamination technicians that require no in depth testing as they are basically the janitors of the nuclear world.

Keep in mind you have to work 72 hour work weeks for the duration of your work however when you contract out usually it’s only for 5 months then you take 7 months off.

I’m a radiation protection technician and I make about $25,000 a month (outage). Which comes out to about $125,000 a year with 7 months off.

If anybody is curious or interested in this hidden world let me know and I’m happy to answer any questions.

Hey everyone, Michael here (I run r/GoNuclear).

I've been building something for my current profession that I wish existed when I started and wish existed now while working outages: The Grid — a nuclear career network + plant intel hub. It is literally designed with road techs in mind first.

We're working on networking with properties of all sorts near plants to offer grid member, road tech discounts during stays for outages. Discounts on restaurants, bars, airbnb, hotels, etc…

It has a ton more resources for us including a 3D offline/online/ upcoming outages plant map tracker and it's only going to get more resources, more basic intel on plants and better over time. It's still growing, but we're adding new resources every week to make traveling easier.

Free resources by the way- if you have any questions let me know I’m happy to talk about it as I’ve spent a lot of time building it.