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Box1-032784
Call Number:
(UW:4/70/5)
Box2-032785
Box3-032786
Box4-016792
Box5-016793
Box6-016794
Box7-016795
Box8-012697
Box9-UMLD1
Record Sub-Group: 79
Records Title: UM-System Presidents Office; Research Reactor; Director's Papers
Dates: 1948-1972
Volume: 8 and 1/6 cubic feet, 10.2 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
(A87-59)
This Record Sub-Group includes publications by Ardath H. Emmons; Research Reactor design and construction records; correspondence to and from Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) concerning licenses, inspections, construction, etc.; and Research Reactor administration and committee records. Also included in the Record Sub-Group are correspondence and records regarding interdepartmental cooperation, planning for nuclear engineering education, and Emmons's work at Ford Nuclear Reactor (FNR) and Phoenix Memorial Lab (PML).
Note to Researcher: Series 13-15 are from 4 cubic feet which had become separated from the rest of this material when originally transferred from A.H. Emmons's office in 1977. Boxes were found during a Records Center inventory of 1992. For additional University of Missouri Research Reactor regulatory guidelines and related materials, see Record Group 4 UW, Sub-Group 42, Series 1 and 2. Follow this link to see a chronology of the construction of the University of Missouri Research Reactor.
Biographical Note:
Ardath H. Emmons was the director of the Research Reactor 1960-1970 at the University of Missouri. He began his professional career as a Junior Chemist, Health Physics Division, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1949-1951); was an Associate Radiological Safety Officer at University of Michigan (1951-1955); and was Supervisor at Ford Nuclear Reactor and Phoenix Memorial Lab, University of Michigan (1955-1960). Emmons assisted in the design of the Phoenix Lab and Ford Nuclear Reactor as well as the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR). He also taught courses in health physics, radiological health, and nuclear engineering.
Series Descriptions:
This Record Sub-Group consists of fifteen separate records series. The arrangement within the series is original and topical.
Series Outline:
- Series One - Emmons's Early Career - Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Ford Nuclear Reactor and Phoenix Memorial Lab
- Series Two - Design and Construction of University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR)
- Series Three - Reactor Administration and Committees
- Series Four - Research
- Series Five - Consulting - Ardath H. Emmons
- Series Six - Speeches Given by Ardath H. Emmons
- Series Seven - Phone Notes
- Series Eight - Departmental and Interdepartmental Files
- Series Nine - Courses Taught by Ardath H. Emmons
- Series Ten - General Correspondence
- Series Eleven - Research Reactor - Publications and Proposals
- Series Twelve - Associations
- Series Thirteen - Projects and Proposals
- Series Fourteen - Correspondence, Personnel, and General Administration
- Series Fifteen - Reactor Construction and Miscellaneous Files
Inventory
Series One - Emmons's Early Career - Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Ford Nuclear Reactor and Phoenix Memorial LabBox 1:
FF 1 - Ardath H. Emmons's resumes and news releases.
FF 2 - National Research Council Fellowship - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Health Physics Training (lecture notes, outlines), 1948-1949.
FF 3 - Industrial Hygiene Course, Environmental Health - 244 (lecture notes - course taken by Emmons and taught by Dr. Fredricks), 1952.
FF 4 - Nuclear Chemical Labs, Chemistry - 235 (Emmons assisted teaching and was in charge of lab work), 1953.
FF 5 - Radiological Health Course, Environmental Health - 228 (taught by Emmons), 1953-1954.
FF 6 - Nuclear Engineering 193 (Emmons assisted teaching), 1956
FF 7 - Outline on Personnel Monitoring, (no date)
FF 8 - Active Wastes - In-service Course II, (no date)
FF 9 - University of Michigan Reactor Feasibility and Proposal, 1952-1953.
FF 10 - Correspondence, "IN" file, Ardath H. Emmons, 1954-1956.
FF 11 - Tests and Comments on the Dense Concrete in Phoenix Building, 1954-1956.
FF 12 - Fuel Elements Dosimetry, 1955-1956.
FF 13 - Nuclear Engineering Education Lab Facilities, 1956.
FF 14 - Ford Nuclear Reactor (FNR) Building Leakage Problem, 1957.
FF 15 - Notes on Reactor Jobs Status and Staff Managers, 1957.
FF 16 - Ford Nuclear Reactor (Description and Operation Manual), 1957.
FF 17 - Operating and Emergency Procedure, Ford Nuclear Reactor, 1957.
FF 18 - FNR Laboratory Experiments, 1957.
FF 19 - Sub-Critical Assembly, 1957-1958.
FF 20 - Radiation Shielding Notes, 1958.
FF 21 - Radiation Policy Commission, ca. 1958.
FF 22 - Phoenix Memorial Lab (PML) and Ford Nuclear Reactor (FNR) - Staff Meetings, 1957-1958.
FF 23 - PML and FNR Staff Meetings, 1959.
FF 24 - PML Budget Material, 1958-1960.
FF 25 - Beam Port Incident - Leak (including negatives and photos), 1959.
FF 26 - Proposal - Ford Motor Company (research proposal), 1959.
FF 27 - Chrysler-Phoenix Proposal (research proposal), 1959.
Series One - Emmons's Early Career - Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Ford Nuclear Reactor and Phoenix Memorial Lab (cont'd)
Box 2
FF 1 - Publications by Ardath H. Emmons (articles, reports, manuals, etc. that Ardath H. Emmons wrote or co-authored), ca. 195l-1958.
Series Two - Design and Construction of University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR)
Box 2 (cont'd)
FF 2 - Early Ideas and Preliminary Thinking, (including meeting minutes, phone conversation notes, and summary of activities by Ardath H. Emmons), 1960-1969.
FF 3 - Miscellaneous Photos, Negatives and Drawings of Site" of proposed MURR (also includes Land Development Study for Research Park on the Campus UMC; floor plans, etc.).
FF 4 - Lab Comments and Design Sheets, 1960.
FF 5 - Research Reactor Facilities Specifications for Construction Volume 2 (of 4) (Architects and Engineers, Cornelius L.T. Gabler and Associates), 2/1/1963 .
FF 6 - Facility Description, "Reactor Site Evaluation for the UM" (floor plans, drawings), 1960-1961.
FF 7 - Schedule of Information for National Institutes of Health (NIH), Health Research Facilities Grant, 5/20/1960.
FF 8 - Information for National Science Foundation (NSF) - Facilities Grant, 1960, 1963.
FF 9 - Internuclear Company Contracts (engineering services, design research, and hazard report), 1960-1962.
FF 10 - Internuclear Company - Engineering-Design-Consulting (information regarding the company), (no date).
FF 11 - "Internuc 61" - Preliminary Design Research Reactor, 7/1960.
FF 12 - Proposal for MURR (incomplete), (no date).
FF 13 - Design Memoranda for MURR Volume 1 (technical memos by Internuc), 1962.
FF 14 - Design Data Volume 2 (technical memo, as above), 1962.
FF 15 - Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) - Correspondence, 1960-1970.
FF 16 - AEC - Ed Cox, 1968-1970.
FF 17 - AEC - Licensing, 1965-1971.
FF 18 - AEC - Compliance, 1968-1970.
FF 19 - AEC Inspections, 1964-1969.
FF 20 - AEC - Facility License Application Class 104 (with exhibits B, C, D and Amendments 1 and 2, exhibit A), 1961.
FF 21 - AEC - License R-103 Reactor Operation, 1966-1970.
FF 22 - AEC - Request for Equipment Grant in Nuclear Science and Engineering (College of Engineering), 11/1961.
FF 23 - AEC - Application for Assistance for MU Research Reactor Facilities (for fabrication of fuel elements, fabrication and purchase of neutron sources and purchase of fabricated beryllium reflector), 7/1965.
FF 24 - AEC - Hazards Summary Report Research Reactor Facility and Addendum #2 (in support of application to US AEC for Class 04 license), 1965-1966.
FF 25 - AEC - Application for Amendment of License (attachments A-H), 5/1967.
FF 26 - AEC - Application for Assistance Grant - Fabrication of Nuclear Reactor Fuel, 7/1968.
FF 27 - AEC - Request for Change in Technical Specifications, 8/1970.
Series Two - Design and Construction of University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) (cont'd)
Box 3
FF 1 - Dosimetry Calibration Lab, 1963.
FF 2 - Beryllium Reflector Proposal, 1963.
FF 3 - Reactor Upgrade to 10 megawatts, 1967-1972.
FF 4 - Bid Materials, 1962-1963 (including a list of bidders).
FF 5 - Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, 1959-1963.
FF 6 - Babcock and Wilcox Company, 1960-1963.
FF 7 - R.W. Booker and Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, 1960.
FF 8 - Palmer and Baker Engineers, Inc., 1960.
FF 9 - Robert and Company Association, 1960.
FF 10 - Sverdrup and Parcel, Inc., 1960.
FF 11 - General Electric (GE) Contract, 1963 (received bid jointly with B.D. Simon).
FF 12 - GE Instrument Grant Proposal, 1964.
FF 13 - GE Change Order Requests, 1964-1965.
FF 14 - National Science Foundation Unfunded Grant Proposal for Procurement of Excess Equipment, 1969.
FF 15 - Hood Data, 1966-1967.
FF 16 - Office Furniture Notes, 1965.
FF 17 - Reactor Calibration Procedures (tentative), 1964.
FF 18 - Reactor Calibration Work (fuel loading procedure), 1966.
FF 19 - Handbook of Radiological Operations, 1960.
FF 20 - Reactor Leak Test, 1965.
FF 21 - Emergency Power Failures - Equipment Failures, 1966-1969.
FF 22 - Excess Property, 1968.
FF 23 - Construction Progress Photo Summary, 1963-1965.
FF 24 - Reactor Start-Up, 1966.
FF 25 - Dedication Costs, 1966.
FF 26 - Research Reactor Operating Procedures, 1969.
FF 27 - F.P. Moly Production, 1969.
FF 28 - Gulf United Nuclear Fuels Corporation Contract, 1972-1974.
FF 29 - Building Addition Ideas, 1965-1971.
FF 30 - Gamma Irradiation Room, 1965-1970.
FF 31 - Ecology Field and Training Center Proposal, 1963-1965.
FF 32 - Task Force for Planning Federal Contract Research and Development Center ,Weldon Spring, 1967-1969.
FF 33 - Weldon Spring Educational Center (proposal), 1967.
FF 34 - US Army Aviation Research Center (AVSCOM), Weldon Spring, 1968-1969.
FF 35 - Security, 1970.
FF 36 - Insurance Letters, 1962-1970.
Series Three - Reactor Administration and Committees
Box 3 (cont'd)FF 37 - Radiation Safety Officer, John Tolan, 1963-1968.
FF 38 - Operations - Reactor Supervisor, 1968-1970.
FF 39 - Staff Resumes.
FF 40 - Reactor Staff Meeting, 1969-1970.
Series Three - Reactor Administration and Committees (cont'd)
Box 4
FF 1 - Radiation Safety Office Annual Reports (reports and safety correspondence), 1965-1969.
FF 2 - Monthly Safety Inspection - Reactor Operating Schedule, 1967-1970.
FF 3 - Reactor Operations Information (including summary reports, shutdowns), 1962, 1967-1969.
FF 4 - Personnel, 1968-1971.
FF 5 - Meeting File (Ardath H. Emmons's meeting notes with various university personnel and Mallinkrodt Nuclear, etc.), 1968.
FF 6 - Meeting File (as above), 1969.
FF 7 - Michigan Meeting, (meeting with representatives of other university reactor facilities regarding the Atomic Energy Commission and possible elimination of fuel support program; "Summary of the Action Research Reactor Facility UMC"), 5/7/1969.
FF 8 - Environmental Health Committee, 1964-1965.
FF 9 - Governor's Science Advisory Committee, 1962-1963.
FF 10 - Isotope Committee, 1959-1967.
FF 11 - Laboratories and Instruments Committee, 1965.
FF 12 - Radiation Safety Committee, 1970.
FF 13 - Reactor Advisory Committee, 1967-1970.
FF 14 - Safety Subcommittee - Reactor Advisory Committee, 1966-1970.
FF 15 - Reactor Users Subcommittee Meetings, 1963-1970.
FF 16 - Shop Committee, 1970.
FF 17 - Space Science Research Center Committee, 1962-1965.
Box 5
FF 1 - Research Director's Meetings, 1964-1969.
FF 2 - Research Proposal Preparation, 1966.
FF 3 - Research Proposals, 1970.
FF 4 - Analog Computer Results, (no date).
FF 5 - UMC Proposals, 1961-1969.
FF 6 - Joint St. Louis University and UM Proposal - Neutron Scattering, 1968-1969.
FF 7 - Reactor Sharing - Contract Research, 1965-1967.
FF 8 - Record of Project Development - Nuclear Science Group, 1969-1970.
FF 9 - Mallinckrodt Nuclear, 1968-1969.
Series Five - Consulting - Ardath H. Emmons
Box 5 (cont'd)
FF 10 - Consulting - Isotope License Application, ca. 1966.
FF 11 - Consulting - Ardath H. Emmons, 1964-1968.
FF 12 - Japan-Internuclear, 1964.
FF 13 - Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1964.
FF 14 - Mallinckrodt Chemical, 1968-1969.
FF 15 - Mid-MO Radiation Research, 1964.
FF 16 - "NERVA" Project, 1970.
FF 17 - Picker X-Ray, 1963-1967.
FF 18 - Columbia Commission for Industrial Development, 1967-1968.
Series Six - Speeches Given by Ardath H. Evans
Box 5 (cont'd)
FF 19 - Scripts, notes, and correspondence, 1960-1965.
FF 20 - Scripts, notes, and correspondence, 1960-1965.
FF 21 - Scripts, notes, and correspondence, 1960-1965.
FF 22 - "Materials Written for Plagiarizing", (reactor facility information and descriptions, organization and administration, etc.), (no date).
Box 5 (cont'd)
FF 23 - Phone Conversation Notes, 1962-1963, 1970.
Series Eight - Departmental and Interdepartmental Files
Box 6
FF 1 - Interdepartmental Department Correspondence, 1960-1961.
FF 2 - Interdepartmental Department Correspondence, 1962.
FF 3 - Interdepartmental Department Correspondence, 1966.
FF 4 - Graduate Faculty Meeting Minutes, (graduate faculty participation in academic government), 1967-1969.
FF 5 - Engineering Advisory Committee (College of Engineering), 1968-1969.
FF 6 - Engineering Planning Committee, (long range planning for engineering at the University), 1967-1968.
FF 7 - Engineering Research Committee (College of Engineering), 1962-1963.
FF 8 - "The Engineering End Run of 1967" (Nuclear Engineering and Science Department).
FF 9 - "Ardie's Long-Range Engineering Plan - A Ten Year Plan for Engineering Education in MO," 1968.
FF 10 - Nuclear Engineering Committee (College of Engineering), (reports on current and proposed programs), 1961-1966.
Series Nine - Courses Taught by Ardath H. Emmons
Box 6 (cont'd)
FF 11 - Cost Analysis Sheets, (faculty activity survey Ardath H. Emmons), 1963-1964.
FF 12 - Man in Conflict (Honors Seminar - Hickman High School), (no date).
FF 13 - Nuclear Engineering seminar - 410, 1968-197O .
FF 14 - Nuclear Engineering - 400, Reactor Design Seminar - Problems in Nuclear Engineering, 1967.
FF 15 - Short Course - Environmental Sanitation, 1964.
FF 16 - Women's Centennial Program (seminar topic on the nature of radioactivity and radiation), 1968.
Series Ten - General Correspondence
Box 6 (cont'd)
FF 17 - "Second Guessers Syndicate" (investment cooperative - Emmons was a member), 1966-1970.
FF 18 - Correspondence, 1960-1962.
FF 19 - Correspondence, 1963-1969.
FF 20 - Correspondence, 1970-1971.
Series 11 - Research Reactor - Publications and Proposals
Box 6 (cont'd)
FF 21 - Annual Reports, 1964-1965, 1968-1972.
FF 22 - "Environmental Health Research and Training" (research proposal to the Federal Bureau of State Services), 1963.
FF 23 - "Flow Coast Down Problem Analysis" (report), 1972.
FF 24 - "Hot Atom Reaction for Production of High Specific Activity Radioisotopes" (research proposal to Mallinkrodt Nuclear), 1968.
FF 25 - "Low Power Testing" (report), 1971.
FF 26 - Papers by Researchers at the MURR, 1962-1970.
Box 7
FF 1 - American Nuclear Society (ANS), 1966-1971.
FF 2 - American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 1965.
FF 3 - American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), 1960-1963.
FF 4 - Argonne Universities Association (AUA), 1966-1968.
FF 5 - Associated Midwest Universities (AMU), 1963-1968.
FF 6 - AMU Nuclear Engineering Education Conference (NEEC), 1960-1968.
FF 7 - Health Physics Society (AHPS), 1961-1964.
FF 8 - Mid-America State University Association (MASUA), 1969-1970.
FF 9 - Oak Ridge Associated University (ORAU), 1966.
Note to Researcher: the following materials were from 4 cubic feet which had become separated from the rest of this collection originally transferred from A.H. Emmons office in 1977. Boxes were found during a Records Center inventory of 1992.Series Thirteen - Projects and Proposals
Box 7 (cont'd)
FF 10 - U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command Center, Proposed, 1969.
FF 11 - U.S. Department of Defense - Advance Research Projects Agency, Interdisciplinary Lab, Proposed, 1960.
FF 12 - 200 BEV Proton Accelerator Proposal, Weldon Spring, 1965-1969.
Series Fourteen - Correspondence, Personnel, and General Administration
Box 8
FF 1 - Facility Director (Ardath H. Emmons) Correspondence, 1962-1968.
FF 2 - Facility Director (Ardath H. Emmons) Correspondence, 1962-1968.
FF 3 - Facility Director (Ardath H. Emmons) Correspondence, 1962-1968.
FF 4 - Interdepartmental Correspondence, 1967-1968.
FF 5 - Interdepartmental Correspondence, 1967-1968.
FF 6 - Interdepartmental Correspondence, 1967-1968.
FF 7 - Commercial Reactor Use - Charges, 1968-1969.
FF 8 - Experimentor Correspondence, 1968-1969.
FF 9 - General Correspondence, 1971.
FF 10 - General Correspondence, 1960-1966.
FF 7 - Mallinckrodt Nuclear, 1966-1969.
FF 8 - Nuclear Engineering Committee (College of Engineering), 1962-1963.
FF 9 - Nuclear Engineering Analog Computer - Atomic Energy Commission Grant Proposal, 1961-1963.
FF 10 - Personnel Policies and Salaries, 1971-1972.
FF 11 - Reactor Open House, 1972.
FF 12 - Research Activities Summary, 1956-1971.
FF 13 - Response to "Preface to Decision," 1971.
FF 14 - Schweitzer Hall Decontamination, 1960.
Series Fifteen - Reactor Construction and Miscellaneous Files
Box 8 (cont'd)
FF 15 - Reactor History, News Releases, 1962-1969.
FF 16 - Photos - Site, Construction, ca. 1962-1964.
FF 17 - National Science Foundation Construction Grant, 1960-1967.
FF 18 - National Science Foundation Construction Grant, 1960-1967.
FF 19 - Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1969.
FF 20 - Hot Cell Development, 1967-1969.
FF 21 - Laboratory Design and Space Assignments, 1963-1969.
FF 22 - Reactor Operations - Problems and Testing, 1961-1968.
Series Fifteen - Reactor Construction and Miscellaneous Files (cont'd)
Box 9
FF 1 - Ardath H. Emmons Personal, 1967-1968.
FF 2 - Ardath H. Emmons - Consultant, International Cooperation Administration; National Engineering University, Lima, Peru, 1961-1964.
FF 3 - Medical (Radiation) Physics (Emmons taught this course), 1960-1961.
FF 4 - Phoenix Memorial Lab, 1960-1963.
FF 5 - Phoenix Memorial Lab, 1960-1963.
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