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In more than 48 years of using nuclear energy, not one single fatality has resulted from radiation exposure at a Canadian nuclear power plant or waste storage facility.

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Types of Careers

Engineers

  • Civil/structural
  • Electrical
  • Materials
  • Mechanical
  • Nuclear
  • Computer
  • Instrumentation and control
  • Fire protection
  • Systems
  • Project management

Professionals

  • Accountants
  • Analysts
  • Business management experts
  • Chemists
  • Document control experts
  • Health physicists
  • Information technology experts
  • Occupational safety, including radiation safety experts
  • Plant operators
    (licensed and non-licensed)
  • Statistics/probabilistic risk assessment experts
  • Training specialists

Technicians and Skilled Trades

  • Carpenters
  • Construction trades and related workers
  • Electricians
  • Engineering technicians
  • Heavy equipment operators
  • Machinists
  • Maintenance technicians
  • Millwrights
  • Pipefitters
  • Science technicians
    • chemical
    • environmental
    • instrumentation and control
    • radiation protection
    • nuclear
  • Security officers
  • Welders