NRC & FBI FIngerprinting Background check

[cmnjbeachbunny]

Resident of NJ but work in Delaware.

As part of my job in a local hospital, the NRC nuclear regulatory commission made an order everyone with access to an irradiator must be fingerprinted and have a background check. This is something totally brand new and everyone is rather frightened by having to have this BACKGROUND check. What exactly shows up on the FBI background check?

Maybe I have watched too much of the X FIles but I am thinking they will be looking into my great-great grandfather, and what I claimed on my taxes in 1985? How deep do they dig ....really?

The hospital says that it JUST looks at our"TERRORIST Risk" yet somehow that seems a bit too simplistic for the FBI.

ANy information is helpful.

 

[SHORTY LONG]

Q: What exactly shows up on the FBI background check?

A: The hospital says that it JUST looks at our "TERRORIST Risk" yet
somehow that seems a bit too simplistic for the FBI. No, it is not to
simplistic to have background checks scrutinized, given the state of
the affair that, we are living in!

Be grateful, and thankful that they are conducting these background checks.

 

[DRTDEVL]

FBI screening is just a cross-reference of your fingerprints against those on file in the FBI database. If you were ever arrested for anything (juvenile included) and you were 'printed, they will pop a match on a "RAP" sheet.

If you are filling out an SF86 questionnaire, they will look back 7 years... Where you lived, worked, and went to school. They will interview the references listed, too. The screening takes anywhere from 3 months to 3 years to complete, depending on the level of clearance being granted and the difficulty of completion (say you are applying for a TS, you lived abroad for 2 years in France and another year in Yemen, they have to get a native-speaking agent to fly out and conduct the interviews as well as run your 'prints through INTERPOL).