[ RadSafe ] Trustworthiness and Reliability requirements, was: Open HP Po...

[BLHamrick at aol.com]

Actually, the guidance on trustworthiness and reliability that came out  
when fingerprinting was included lists items that can also be found in 10 CFR  
10, which is the part that provides rules and regulations for NRC  
employees.  Nevertheless, it's still guidance.  A licensee can grant  anyone 
unescorted access, so long as the T&R Official feels the employee is  trustworthy 
and reliable, and documents some (i.e., any) basis for that  determination.
 
Barbara L. Hamrick
 
 
In a message dated 7/14/2010 1:14:43 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
brent.rogers at optusnet.com.au writes:

Could it  be the case that some employers are applying 10 CRF 26 (Fitness 
for
duty)  standards, even though they were only meant for nuclear reactors,
critical  mass users, etc?  

Brent Rogers

-----Original  Message-----
From:  radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu]  On Behalf Of Clayton J Bradt
Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2010 3:50 AM
To:  joseph_ring at harvard.edu; radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ]  Trustworthiness and Reliability requirements, was: 
Open
HP Position at  Harvard

Dr. Ring wrote:

"The successful candidate will complete  pre-employment drug, reference &
background screening as well as the  Nuclear Regulatory Commission's
Trustworthiness and Reliability  requirements."

Actually, the NRC doesn't specify what constitutes a  trustworthy and 
reliable employee.  The only "requirement" per se, is  placed upon the 
licensee to check an applicant's background and use the  results as a part 
of  it's own determination of the applicant's  trustworthiness and 
reliability.  The NRC has pointedly refused to  state what it is that the 
licensee is supposed to look for in an  applicant's background that would 
disqualify him/her.  I suspect that  NRC's Office of General Counsel has 
warned the commission that to specify  disqualifying criteria (e.g. 
previous felony convictions, unpaid parking  tickets, or whatever) would 
expose them to discrimination-type law suites  by persons denied 
employment.  So instead of sticking their own necks  out, the commission 
has ordered its licensees to assume the risk and to  use their own 
judgement as to what makes a person untrustworthy and  unreliable. 

Of course, what employer would ever hire somebody that it  thought was not 
trustworthy and reliable?  Since there are no  criteria to go by, and since 
every employer already makes it's own  judgements as to who to hire anyway, 
what is the purpose of this rule?  (This is just rhetorical, the answer is 
obvious.)

To any lurking  NRC representatives on the list another question (this one  
non-rhetorical): How many terrorists or potential terrorists have ever  
been identified by this screening process?

Clayton J.  Bradt
Principal Radiophysicist
Laboratory for Inorganic & Nuclear  Chemistry
NYS Dept. of Health
518-474-1993
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