Nuclear Engineers

Architecture and Engineering Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 17-2161 · 19 skills

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Design or develop nuclear equipment, such as reactor cores, radiation shielding, or associated instrumentation or control mechanisms.
Monitor nuclear facility operations to identify any design, construction, or operation practices that violate safety regulations and laws or could jeopardize safe operations.
Initiate corrective actions or order plant shutdowns in emergency situations.

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Design systems to automatically transition to safe state when failures occur, preventing harm through built-in protective responses

nuclear-engineer

wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Nuclear Engineer — sizing radiation shielding against a dose target, screening a proposed plant change under 10 CFR 50.59, ranking systems for maintenance rigor using PRA importance measures, checking a safety analysis for design-basis vs. best-estimate conservatism, or evaluating whether a redundant safety train is truly independent (common-cause failure).

control-preflight-reflect

Mr-Fang-VLSI/EDAgent

Before each experiment, analyze latest route/STA evidence, reflect on method gaps, and output concrete improvement hypotheses and next-step A/B plan. Use when user asks to start new experiments or when model/flow conclusions may be unstable.

nuclear-codes-asme

MP-AI-20/mechanical-engineering-skills

ASME nuclear codes — Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) Section III (nuclear components), Class 1/2/3 classification, NB/NC/ND design rules, design by analysis (DBA), stress categories (primary/secondary/peak), fatigue evaluation (ASME III NB-3200), seismic (SSE/OBE), Design Specifications (DS), nuclear quality assurance (NQA-1), and Code Case applications.

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Design systems to automatically transition to safe state when failures occur, preventing harm through built-in protective responses

fault-tree-analysis

Top-down deductive methodology for analyzing system failures by mapping logical relationships between faults, subsystems, and redundant safety elements using Boolean logic diagrams

nuclear-engineer

wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Nuclear Engineer — sizing radiation shielding against a dose target, screening a proposed plant change under 10 CFR 50.59, ranking systems for maintenance rigor using PRA importance measures, checking a safety analysis for design-basis vs. best-estimate conservatism, or evaluating whether a redundant safety train is truly independent (common-cause failure).

control-preflight-reflect

Mr-Fang-VLSI/EDAgent

Before each experiment, analyze latest route/STA evidence, reflect on method gaps, and output concrete improvement hypotheses and next-step A/B plan. Use when user asks to start new experiments or when model/flow conclusions may be unstable.

nuclear-codes-asme

MP-AI-20/mechanical-engineering-skills

ASME nuclear codes — Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) Section III (nuclear components), Class 1/2/3 classification, NB/NC/ND design rules, design by analysis (DBA), stress categories (primary/secondary/peak), fatigue evaluation (ASME III NB-3200), seismic (SSE/OBE), Design Specifications (DS), nuclear quality assurance (NQA-1), and Code Case applications.

nuclear-fatigue

MP-AI-20/mechanical-engineering-skills

Nuclear fatigue — ASME Section III NB-3222.4 fatigue evaluation, design fatigue curves (air vs. water environment), environmentally-assisted fatigue (EAF) NUREG/CR-6909, cumulative usage factor (CUF), Fen correction, simplified elastic-plastic analysis (K_e), fatigue crack growth in LWR environment, Appendix L, and PWR/BWR cycling transient management.

nuclear-materials

MP-AI-20/mechanical-engineering-skills

Nuclear materials — radiation damage (DPA, void swelling, embrittlement), reactor-grade steels (SA-508, 9Cr-1Mo), Zircaloy cladding, ASME Section III, hafnium, beryllium, tritium breeding.

nuclear-pressure-vessel

MP-AI-20/mechanical-engineering-skills

Nuclear reactor pressure vessel (RPV) — design (ASME III NB-3200), material SA-508 Gr. 3 / SA-533 Gr. B, radiation embrittlement (RT_NDT shift, RTNPTS), pressure-temperature (P-T) limits (ASME III Appendix G), surveillance capsules (10 CFR 50 App. H), fracture toughness (K_Ic, K_Ia), pressurized thermal shock (PTS), vessel inspection (ASME XI), and life extension considerations.

radiation-shielding

MP-AI-20/mechanical-engineering-skills

Radiation shielding design — gamma ray attenuation (buildup factor, half-value layer, tenth-value layer), neutron shielding (fast neutron moderation, thermal neutron capture), dose rate calculation (inverse square law, NCRP 151), shield materials (lead, concrete, polyethylene, water), shielding adequacy (ALARA, dose limits 10 CFR 20), skyshine and streaming, Monte Carlo shielding codes (MCNP, SCALE), medical X-ray shielding (NCRP 151), and nuclear facility shielding design.

robdtaylor/personal-ai-infrastructure

UK health and safety management for manufacturing operations. Covers risk assessments, COSHH, PPE, incident reporting, LOTO, manual handling, and emergency procedures. Aligned with UK HSE regulations and IATF 16949 clause 7.1.4. USE WHEN user says 'health and safety', 'risk assessment', 'COSHH', 'PPE', 'accident', 'incident', 'LOTO', 'lockout tagout', 'manual handling', 'emergency procedure', or needs safety compliance guidance.

copper-doping-optimization-cds-field-quenching

ShaneLogic/SolarLab

Optimize copper doping concentration in CdS layers to achieve efficient field quenching at ~50 kV/cm. Use when designing or analyzing CdS-based solar cells where field quenching efficiency is critical for performance, or when troubleshooting inefficient field quenching in semiconductor devices.

rf-pecvd-deposition-optimization

ShaneLogic/SolarLab

Configure RF-PECVD deposition parameters (pressure, power, temperature, electrode spacing) for a-Si:H films to optimize film quality and prevent contamination that would degrade fill factor. Use this when depositing amorphous silicon films via RF-PECVD or troubleshooting deposition quality issues.