DOE is adjudicated by the DOE Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA), where an individual whose security clearance is at issue may seek to appeal a security clearance decision to an administrative judge, and subsequently, to an appeal panel. , Q Clearances required a single-scope background investigation of the previous ten years of the applicant's life by both the Office of Personnel Management and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and , cost $5,596. As of April 2021, there were 92,177 people who held a Q clearance. In popular culture "Q" Clearance was a 1986 novel by Peter Benchley, satirizing Cold War secrecy and politics. In "Nellis", episode 7 of season 6 of the television show Archer, Sterling Archer uses a Q clearance to gain access to Area 51 after landing illegally on the airstrip. In Robert Heinlein's 1956 novel The Door Into Summer, the narrator says his pre-1960 Q clearance let him "soak up" much classified technology. In the 2022 movie Moonfall actress Halle Barry who plays Jocinda Fowler is given Q clearance by the director of NASA (Albert Hutchings) who gives her his ID access badge once he determines that collision with the Moon is imminent. In politics The QAnon conspiracy theory is named such because the 4chan and 8chan poster, who in 2017 created the persona behind the conspiracy theory, claims to be an individual with Q level security clearance. See also Classified information in the United States References Nuclear weapons infrastructure of the United States Nuclear secrecy United States Department of Energy United States government secrecy