Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Collection
MC 00332
Special Collections Research Center
4.0 Linear feet
1986 - 1988
This collection contains North Carolina's site proposal, a feasibility assessment, notes, United States Department of Energy Environmental Impact Statements, audiocassettes, and videocassettes, and a few other related items pertaining to the development, design, and siting of a Superconducting Super Collider (SSC).
The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was to be a ring particle accelerator, proton-proton collider, and high-energy physics laboratory that was to have had a ring circumference of fifty-four miles. It was initially suggested in 1982 by a National Reference Designs Study with its design completed and construction approved by 1987. North Carolina was considered as a possible location for the massive project, but a site in Texas was selected. The project was cancelled by Congress in 1993.
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Reference Staff.
8 archival boxes
United States. Dept. of Energy. Environmental Impacts Division.
Restrictions to Access
This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Acquisitions Information
Unknown.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Collection, MC 332, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
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Proccessing Information
Processed by Michael Watts,
2007 June
Encoded by Michael Watts,
2007 June
Biographical Note
The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was to be a ring particle accelerator, proton-proton collider, and high-energy physics laboratory that was to have had a ring circumference of fifty-four miles. It was initially suggested in 1982 by a National Reference Designs Study with its design completed and construction approved by 1987.
North Carolina was considered as a possible location for the Superconducting Supercollider and a building site was chosen that extended the circular underground structure through areas in Durham, Granville, and Person counties. Out of the twenty-five possible locations that were considered, North Carolina was deemed the best nationally in terms of the most important site criterion: geology.
The North Carolina site proposal was submitted in August 1987 and chosen in December 1987 by a committee from the National Academy of Sciences as one of seven of the final sites possible in the United States for construction of the project. The eleven billion dollar project was awarded, however, to a site in Texas that was advocated by then Vice President George H. W. Bush. In 1988, Waxahachie, Texas was selected as the location best suited for the Superconducting Super Collider. Construction of the Superconducting Super Collider was begun near Waxahachie, Texas, but the project was cancelled by Congress in 1993.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains
North Carolina's site proposal, a feasibility assessment, notes, United States Department of Energy
Environmental Impact Statements, audiocassettes, and videocassettes, and a few other related items pertaining to the development, design, and siting of a
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC).
Organization of the Collection
Material remains in the order that it was received.
Audiotapes
North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-
Nuclear physics--Research--United States
Superconducting Super Collider
Video tapes
Super Collider R and D
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Feasibility Study - SSC - Volume 1
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2
Feasibility Study - SSC - Volume 2
1
3
Feasibility Study - SSC - Site Evaluations
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4
GAO - Congressional Report
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5
SSC - Economic Impacts - UNC Charlotte
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6
SSC - DOE Site Evaluations - w/ Super Collider Super Mistake Bumper Sticker
1
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State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 1
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State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 2
1
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State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 3
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State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 4
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11
State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 5
1
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State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 6
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1
State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 7
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2
State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 8
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State of North Carolina Site Proposal - Geology Appendix
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4
SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volume 4
2
5
SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volumes 1, 3, 4 w/appendix 4
2
6
SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volumes 4 w/appendix 10-13 of 16
2
7
SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volumes 4 w/appendix 14 of 16
3
1
SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - Invitation for Site Proposals
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2
SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - Invitation for Site Proposals - Questions and Answers - Copy 2
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3
DOE Environmental Impact Statement Volumes 1 and 3, Volume 4 w/appendix 4
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4
DOE - SSC Waste Generation
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DOE - SSC Invitation for Site Proposals w/notes
3
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DOE - SSC Invitation for Site Proposals w/notes - copy 2
3
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Study - Vol. 1
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1
DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Study - Vol. 2
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2
North Carolina and the Superconducting Super Collider - pamphlets
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 1 - 500
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 501 - 1005
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 1006 - 1503
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 1504 - 2006
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 2007 - 2508
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 2209 - 3007
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 3008 - 3512
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 3513 - 3986
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 3987 - 4377
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.B. - Response - 1 of 3
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.B. - Response - 2 of 3
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.B. - Response - 3 of 3
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2 .A.2 - pgs. 1 - 320
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2 .A.2 - pgs. 321 - 688
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2 .A.3
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 3
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 1-3 of 16
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendices 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12 - 16 Errata and Revisions
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5 Errata
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5 Errata
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 7
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 11
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5a of 16
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5b
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 6-9 of 16
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 8
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DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 15 - 16
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VHS Videotape - Super Collider National Video Rev.
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10 Audio Cassettes
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1