Job Description:

• 1) Operates machine to recharge nuclear reactor in nuclear plant: Reads work orders and confers with supervisor to determine reactor tube loading sequence.

• 2) Reads thermometer to ensure that water temperature is at level specified for charging operation.

• 3) Pushes button to raise charge-discharge machine to specified height for removal of loaded monotubes from wall-storage racks.

• 4) Turns levers to position machine in horizontal alignment with specified wall rack, and moves transfer-arm controls to remove tubes from rack.

• 5) Pushes buttons to move charging machine and align serially-numbered monotube with specifically-numbered reactor-wall opening.

• 6) Activates charging machine pump to force water into monotube and push piston forward to fill reactor tube with fuel elements and to clear irradiated elements out of reactor.