Series One - Emmons's Early Career - Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Ford Nuclear Reactor and Phoenix Memorial Lab

Box 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

Series Four - Research

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)

Series Seven - Phone Notes

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

Series 12 - Associations

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