Nuclear intern

Pay in the destination countries

Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.

What does the day look like?

As a nuclear engineering intern, approximately 25% of your working time is spent on technical modelling or direct plant walkdowns, while the remaining 75% goes into administrative tasks, compliance checks, literature reviews, and safety documentation. You run reactor core physics, thermal-hydraulic, and radiation shielding simulations using computational tools such as MCNP, OpenMC, SCALE, ANSYS Fluent, or RELAP5. Your daily duties include logging operational data such as secondary circuit temperature gradients, primary coolant pressure cycles, and turbine vibrations. You also shadow licensed operators and health physicists, observing dosimeter calibrations and surface contamination smear tests using Geiger-Mueller counters and ionisation chambers.

You are legally barred from manipulating reactor control rods or operating reactor consoles independently. Working hours are standard office hours, typically 35 to 40 hours per week. Interns do not work solo night shifts, rotating control room shifts, or emergency on-call duties. The rest of your time is spent in morning operational briefings, ALARA radiation dose planning, and drafting technical memos on piping corrosion or IAEA Safety Standards.

Where does this lead?