Radiation Protection Intern

Requisition ID # 163721 

Job Category: Administrative / Clerical 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Generation

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Avila Beach

Department Overview

The Radiation Protection (RP) Department is a regulatory mandated organization and is responsible for establishing and maintaining programmatic controls to ensure radiation safety for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) workforce and surrounding communities.  The RP Department has several programs; however, the primary ones include in-field support with RP Operations, Radwaste, ALARA and Exposure Reduction, Engineering, and Dosimetry.

Position Summary

The primary function of this position is to by ensuring compliance with applicable radiation safety procedures.

This is an entry-level Nuclear Radiation Protection Engineerign position that works under the general technical direction of more experienced Nuclear Radiation Protection Engineers. The job is responsible for providing Radiation Protection technical support for routine projects and programs, including but not limited to: analyzing and trending data to identify adverse trends; researching industry guidelines and operating experience for proposed solutions; assisting in all aspects of procedure development and support of RP programs such as ALARA, temporary shielding, instrumentation, inter and external dosimetry, rad waste, rad material control, and radiological environmental monitoring program.

Responsibilities

• Assignments during this period will generally be to assist in one or more of the work areas described below. Working areas below will require direction and supervision. This list is not all-inclusive and all items may not be applicable to a particular individual's job duties.
• ALARA planning and implementation: Responsible for long term exposure reduction strategies, outage planning, temporary shielding and technology, source term removal and mitigation, processes and procedures required to implement effective ALARA controls, and the metrics associated with monitoring an ALARA program.
• RP instrumentation program: Responsible for planning and implementation of programs to support the field with instrumentation for routine operations such as surveys, job coverage, release of personnel and materials, remote monitoring, air sampling, emergency response etc.
• Internal and External dosimetry: Responsible for planning and implementing programs to measure, analyze, calculate and document internal and external occupational exposures at DCPP.
• Radioactive Material Control: Responsible for providing technical support to the management of radioactive material and preventing the inadvertent release of that material to the public. This includes receipt and shipping of radioactive material, control of contaminated protective clothing, source control, and technical support for decontamination activities.

• Radioactive Waste: Responsible for processing, packaging, storage, and shipping for both liquid and solid radioactive waste. This includes the radioactive waste minimization program, the Radwaste Classification Program and radioactive waste form Process Control Program.
• Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP): Responsible for technical support for the area and environmental TLD program, Off Site Environmental Laboratory (OEL), and Ground Water Initiative.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Qualified candidates are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in health physics, radiation protection, business analytics, data analytics, computer science, nuclear engineering or a closely-related technical discipline
• Students must be continuing their education towards degree during and/or after the internship

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, and data analytics