Help | Contact Us
NukeWorker.com
NukeWorker Menu Q clearance escorts? honeypot

Author Topic: Q clearance escorts?  (Read 6807 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline 61nomad

  • Moderate User
  • ***
  • Posts: 86
  • Karma: 16
Q clearance escorts?
« on: Aug 08, 2012, 10:41 »
We never had escorts on any DOE site I ever worked.  I could understand if it was NV, but NM?

Offline Rennhack

  • Forum Administrator
  • *
  • Posts: 8995
  • Karma: 4683
  • Gender: Male
Re: Q clearance escorts?
« Reply #1 on: Aug 08, 2012, 11:31 »
We never had escorts on any DOE site I ever worked.  I could understand if it was NV, but NM?

When I worked at LANL, we were in an area that required an L (pretty much everywhere was L or Q), many of us did not have clearance, so we had an escort.

SCMasterchef

  • Guest
Re: Q clearance escorts?
« Reply #2 on: Aug 10, 2012, 07:05 »
I have worked at 6 DOE sites and they are no different than the commercial industry.  If you have to enter an area that requires an "L" or "Q" then you must be escorted if you have not been through the background screening and been issued the clearance.  That is no different than the commercial industry where if you have to enter the owner controlled or protected areas and do not have a clearance you must be escorted.  You can work almost everywhere else without an escort as long as you don't need to go into a cleared area.

Offline Smart People

  • Rad Engineer/Shipper
  • Very Heavy User
  • *****
  • Posts: 1268
  • Karma: 2492
  • Gender: Male
  • I like being around smart people
Re: Q clearance escorts?
« Reply #3 on: Aug 11, 2012, 12:34 »
We never had escorts on any DOE site I ever worked.  I could understand if it was NV, but NM?


Ok, I'm calling it. [BS] [BS]
Blessed is the man who can laugh at himself--he will never cease to be amused
Think twice and say nothing..Chiun
I'm as big a fool as anyone..And bigger than most.. Odd Thomas

BetaAnt

  • Guest
Re: Q clearance escorts?
« Reply #4 on: Aug 11, 2012, 07:30 »
Uranium processing facility in NM converts ore to yellow cake and/or yellow cake to UF6 for enrichment. We still need to mine U nat for fuel.

All DOE sites involved in the fuel cycle are L or Q. Escorts are required for those uncleared temp workers. The numbers vary on escort to visitor ratio (1:3 at some sites, 1:5 at others).

I had an escort at SRNL until my L came through (even to the bathroom). Before the Naval Fuels Complex was torn down at SRS, certain rooms were Q access (for a shutdown facility). Most DOE sites have clearance issue areas (a lot of it legacy).

BA  8) 8) 8)

 


NukeWorker ™ is a registered trademark of NukeWorker.com ™, LLC © 1996-2024 All rights reserved.
All material on this Web Site, including text, photographs, graphics, code and/or software, are protected by international copyright/trademark laws and treaties. Unauthorized use is not permitted. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute, in any manner, the material on this web site or any portion of it. Doing so will result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.
Privacy Statement | Terms of Use | Code of Conduct | Spam Policy | Advertising Info | Contact Us | Forum Rules | Password Problem?