Career Path > Nuclear Operator
Work schedule while in training for NLO or SRO
Roll Tide:
License classes sometimes rotate to the backshifts or weekends in order to have the simulator available. Requal uses the simulator Monday-Thursday day shift typically.
Just thought I would warn you....
Fermi2:
What Kirsten described is more inline with the industry norm and is almost identical to what I'm used to with the exception if my former emplyer started a NLO in July more often then not we'd expect them to be completely qualified by the next July. Some took longer, some did it earlier. Most ex Navy did it on the earlier side.
I'm not sure how it got the way it did at TVA but it takes way too long to get an NLO through the pipeline. It has nothing to do with the people, it's the way it's administratively handled.
There's another good reason there's not Instant ROs at Pilgrim. Technically it's illegal.
Mike
flamatrix99:
--- Quote from: bethlehemstarr on Oct 03, 2006, 11:31 ---I'm up at Pilgim (an Entergy Plant in Plymouth, Mass), training to be a NLO. Our training program is a fair bit different from the TVA one described.
We started classroom training July 17, and will finish up on November 3. M-F kind of work, 8 hour days (we actually are working 9 hour days, and taking alternate friday's off, but that's a class vote). Then I'll go to on-shift training the beginning of November, where I rotate with the crew. I should be qualified NLO by the end of March.
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Wow that is an awesome schedule. I am at Turkey Point and when I went through NLO training we started at the beginning of August and came out on shift June of the following year. Then finally fully qualified all three watchstations by December. It was a long drawn out process.
We work 5 shifts 8 hour days with TONS of overtime. I am talking like 1300 hours a year! Good money but no life. We barely have enough people (RCO and NLO) to keep both units up and running. If we loose 2 more RCO's they will be screwed. We don't have enough people to go to 12's.
Oh life at the Point! These people couldn't manage a ham sandwich!
Roll Tide:
--- Quote from: flamatrix99 on Nov 05, 2006, 09:04 ---We work 5 shifts 8 hour days with TONS of overtime. I am talking like 1300 hours a year! Good money but no life.
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Since that is FP&L, that is 1300 hours extra worked. I only point that out because many places show the number of hours OT paid (which would mean only 650 hours doubletime worked)!
18 months would be overkill for a small site like Turkey Buzzard Point!
Fermi2:
Roll Tides a Professional Trainee!!!!!! LOL. He's jumping from one training class to another. I can't wait till he finally has more time in training than I do!!!
Mike
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