All occupations › Life, physical & social scienceCan AI Replace Nuclear Monitoring Technicians in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 26% of today's nuclear monitoring technicians tasks by 2036, and there is a 12% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI both assists and takes over tasks.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
9% 2030 · 12% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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1 Monitor personnel to determine the amounts and intensities of radiation exposure. 2 Inform supervisors when individual exposures or area radiation levels approach maximum permissible limits. 3 Provide initial response to abnormal events or to alarms from radiation monitoring equipment. 4 Brief workers on radiation levels in work areas. 5 Determine or recommend radioactive decontamination procedures, according to the size and nature of equipment and the degree of contamination. 6 Confer with scientists directing projects to determine significant events to monitor during tests. 7 Calculate safe radiation exposure times for personnel using plant contamination readings and prescribed safe levels of radiation. 8 Prepare reports describing contamination tests, material or equipment decontaminated, or methods used in decontamination processes. 9 Enter data into computers to record characteristics of nuclear events or to locate coordinates of particles. Based on 19 O*NET tasks for "Nuclear Monitoring Technicians" (SOC 19-4051.02). LLM alone: 15% of tasks; with AI tools: 30%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
