Accreditation, Licensure & Partnerships

Atomic Technical Institute is a Washington state licensed private vocational school. Licensure is administered by the Washington Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (the Workforce Board), which regulates private career schools under RCW 28C.10 and publishes a searchable list of licensed schools. ATI meets the Board's requirements for financial responsibility, faculty qualifications, student-refund policy, recordkeeping, and facility safety.

ATI is one of several organizations nationwide with Department of Energy National Training Center reciprocity (on select programs). Practically, that means certain radiological-worker and safety training delivered at ATI is built to a standard recognized at participating DOE sites - such as the Hanford Site, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) - so graduates can carry a credential toward entry-level trainee roles and site-specific worker-training qualifications (for example, TASWAP or Radiological Worker training). Final qualification and site access are always determined by the hiring contractor and the individual site.

ATI holds an agreement with CSU that lets qualifying ATI coursework transfer for college credit. The agreement is built for students who want to stack an ATI credential onto an applied science or bachelor's degree without restarting from scratch. Admissions can share the current credit-equivalency table on request.

ATI graduates pursue roles across the DOE complex and the commercial nuclear industry, not a single site. Hiring employers include prime contractors and subcontractors at DOE cleanup and national-laboratory sites - among them the Hanford Site, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and the Savannah River Site (SRS) - plus the staffing firms those primes rely on. Hanford-area examples include Hanford Tank Waste & Closure (H2C), Central Plateau Cleanup Company, and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions. Small-modular-reactor companies, Energy Northwest, and medical-isotope manufacturers also hire from our graduate pool. Hiring and placement decisions rest with each employer; ATI does not guarantee employment.