Getting What You Pay For……

While doing research on a previous post, I found some interesting in the forum at the Professional Reactor Operator Society (PROS) website, not that this is vetted information, it is what it is and may be an advertisement for other stations. TVA plants pay their Non-Licensed Operators (NLO) a bonus for each phase of training (At Sequoyah, a non licensed operator's base pay is raised ~10% when they enter license training. In addition, effective 12/6/07,each Nuclear Unit Operator trainee will receive one-time lump sum payments for successful completion of three stages of training. Successful being a passing score on the final exam for each stage of training. The amounts are: GFES $2000 Systems training $4000 TVA audit exam $5000 plus a $5000 for passing the final NRC Exam). This is on the high end and unfortunately for us, we are on the low end (we get the glory of being in the class). And as hard to believe as it is, some companies actually plan and pay for hours of extra study. I don’t expect to post any more on this as the company is pretty set.