Nuclear jobs are the safest in the world.
Pity having full time jobs is seen as a bonus.
It should be the norm.
You are probably referring to someone who works as an operator at a nuclear power plant.  Uranium is mined in TN, refined and enriched in IL and KY through a very dangerous process, and then sent someplace else to be turned into fuel rods.  Lots of cancer deaths and even some catastrophic deaths at the plant I worked at.  Nuclear power is not all rainbows and butterflies.