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Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a 1-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s.
Tank A-106 will be the 24th single-shell tank that crews have cleaned out at Hanford, which is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks: 149 single-shell tanks and 28 double-shell tanks. Ranging from 55,000 gallons to more than 1 million gallons in capacity, the tanks hold around 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste resulting from plutonium production at the site.
There are a wide variety of nuclear careers available in this growing field! Hundreds of thousands of jobs exist globally in energy, research, medicine, and more.
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You don’t need a lab coat or a PhD to work in nuclear science and technology. You can find rewarding, meaningful work no matter your background.
Nuclear energy jobs employed 68,008 workers in 2023 across fuels and electric power generation. Nuclear power jobs and employment opportunities continue to grow as the nation works to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050.
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Bachelor’s/Master’s
$70-120K
Vocational/Training
$35-70K
Associate/Bachelor’s
$50-90K
Nuclear researchers work in universities, industry, and government to study the fundamentals of nuclear science, its applications in power, medicine, national security, and its potential to advance aerospace propulsion and space exploration.
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Nuclear medicine helps reveal and treat numerous diseases, often at very early stages. Nuclear technicians perform many tasks, including preparing radioactive drugs, administering them to patients, and performing procedures like imaging with a PET scanner.
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PhD
$125-300K+
Nuclear jobs in industrial applications involve using radiation and nuclear technologies for non-power purposes such as medical isotope production, materials testing, imaging, sterilization, and process optimization across manufacturing, healthcare, and research industries.
Nuclear security jobs focus on protecting nuclear materials, facilities, and information from theft, sabotage, and terrorism through safeguards, physical protection, cyber defense, emergency preparedness, and international nonproliferation efforts.
Nuclear aerospace careers focus on developing and applying nuclear technologies—such as propulsion, power systems, and radiation shielding—for space exploration, defense, and advanced aircraft systems. Electrical and software engineers develop next generation, high technology systems for deep space exploration and computing.
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