Job Description:

• 1) Disposes of radioactive equipment and wastes, performing any combination of following duties: Loads contaminated equipment and lead pigs of waste material onto truck, using forklift.

• 2) Drives truck to storage area and removes load.

• 3) Shovels specified quantities of ingredients into and tends concrete mixer.

• 4) Pours or shovels concrete into forms to make disposal coffins.

• 5) Lifts contaminated equipment or wastes from lead pigs and places them in coffin, using stainless steel rods.

• 6) Pours concrete into coffin to encase waste.

• 7) Loads coffins onto truck, using forklift, and transports them to burial ground or arranges for burial at sea.

• 8) Records amount and type of equipment and waste disposed.

• 9) May accompany coffins for burial at sea.

• 10) May clean contaminated equipment for reuse by operating sand blasters, filtering pumps, and steam cleaners or by scrubbing with detergents or solvents.

• 11) Workers must follow prescribed safety procedures and federal laws regulating waste disposal.