I hope to be one of the many being hired right now
. I wonder if having the Associate degree fully focused on Radiation Protection will help me a little bit on the classes. I can only hope! I understand from what everybody has said the training is not easy but I'll try my best.
It will help you understand that the naval shipyard teaches a condensed version of what applies to deckplate radcon servicing US Navy nuclear vessels,...
A lot of smart guys with CHPs hanging on the wall have developed a lot of thumbrules, circle R requirements, et al, resulting in lots of rules and pages of rules but not the applied critical thinking which developed the rules,...
Step one is to focus on getting qualified with what is presented to you, for you, to be qualified,...
Later, when you have the time and if you have the notion to, you can start looking at how all the 0288 rules were devised from the same basic truths of radiation, health physics, and radiological work that apply to everybody everywhere dependent on their radioisotope synthesis, nuclide distributions and pathways for exposure,...
Probably much later,...
Lots of folks enjoy fruitful careers and live contented lives letting the smart guys be smart guys, and focusing themselves on making sure the occupational workers go home the same way they came in everyday,...
