u/RadTechMJ

The nuclear outage calendar is a big part of why I love this work. With experience in radiation protection, I've had six-figure years and roughly six months off. I travel to temporary assignments at US plants; my home base doesn't need to be beside one.

I'm a W2 employee with benefits. I tell recruiters the dates and places I want to work, and they arrange assignments when available. Keeping a home base still means planning travel and lodging. Outage weeks can run six 12-hour days, and gaps between jobs matter.

College wasn't required for my RP route, but training, tests and plant-access requirements still apply. Getting comfortable with the nuclear culture and procedures took me a few outages. Learning the process and asking questions are part of settling in; familiarity doesn't replace task qualifications.

I built Nuke Nomad to help people understand this route. My profile has a free, no-account preview of my optional paid Nuclear Contracting 101 course; it isn't a hiring credential. The full course is included with Pro. Eligible new members can try it for 30 days free: $0 today, card required, then $5/month unless canceled. Cancel before your trial ends to avoid the first charge. To start, choose "Start my 30 days free" on the course page. What would you like to know about the travel or adjusting to plant life?

Hey everyone. I built a platform called Nuke Nomad for nuclear contractors.

Here’s where I could use some advice. I already have a large contractor community on Skool. I want everyone together on Nuke Nomad, but even after telling people about the new platform, the move has been slow. Eventually I want to close the Skool group, and I don’t want to lose the people who make the community worth having.

If you’ve moved a community from one platform to another, what actually got people to make the switch? Did you move the most active members first, bring old content over, give people a reason to join right away, set a firm date for closing the old group, or something I’m missing?

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.