Atomic Energy Information Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0259
This collection includes annual reports, correspondence and memoranda, work conference-related material, presentations, studies, and surveys detailing how best to introduce atomic energy to the South.
The files are largely made up of material from the Atomic Industrial Forum, the Oak Ridge Laboratories, and the Southern Regional Education Board.
As the atomic age dawned in the 1950’s, the peaceful civilian application of this technology began to be exploited. It was found that atomic energy could be harnessed in order to produce electricity for commercial use; therefore the benefits and risks began to be seriously explored.
The Atomic Energy Information Collection provides a sampling of how the Southern region of the United States in particular dealt with issues regarding this new energy system. This is a collection of material that was routed among departments at Clemson College and then deposited at the Clemson College Library as an uncataloged vertical file of material.
Afterwards, the material was added to the Public Documents area of the Clemson College Library. Here the material stayed until the Cooper Library was built. The Atomic Energy Information contents were moved along with Public Documents to the new Library. In the early 1980’s a major reorganization of the Clemson University Library system was undertaken. This collection of material was moved to Clemson University’s Special Collections unit in 1989.
1.15 Cubic Feet (41 folders in 4 boxes)
English
This is a collection of material that was routed among departments at Clemson College from 1956-1960. Much of this collection deals with the utilization of atomic energy to best serve the needs of a rapidly changing South.
By series.
Received from Clemson University Library on 4-2-89. Formerly accession number 89-74.
Processed by Carl Redd in 2004. Data entered in Archivists' Toolkit by Kristi Roberts in July 2010.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository