Preliminary Inventory of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Collection, 1986 - 1988

Collection Number MC 332

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Collection Information
Abstract:

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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Descriptive Summary

Repository

North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center

Title

Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Collection, 1986 - 1988

Call Number

MC 332

Extent

4 linear feet, 8 archival boxes

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.

Language of Material

English

Information for Users

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.

Online Catalog Terms


The following terms have been used to index the guide to the collection in the NCSU Library's online catalog.

Topics

  • Nuclear physics--Research--United States.
  • Superconducting Super Collider.

Geographic Names

  • North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-

Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Super Collider R and D [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 1]
  • Feasibility Study - SSC - Volume 1 [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 2]
  • Feasibility Study - SSC - Volume 2 [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 3]
  • Feasibility Study - SSC - Site Evaluations [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 4]
  • GAO - Congressional Report [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 5]
  • SSC - Economic Impacts - UNC Charlotte [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 6]
  • SSC - DOE Site Evaluations - w/ Super Collider Super Mistake Bumper Sticker [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 7]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 1 [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 8]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 2 [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 9]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 3 [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 10]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 4 [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 11]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 5 [MC 332 Box 1, Folder 12]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 6 [MC 332 Box 2, Folder 1]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 7 [MC 332 Box 2, Folder 2]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - 8 [MC 332 Box 2, Folder 3]
  • State of North Carolina Site Proposal - Geology Appendix [MC 332 Box 2, Folder 4]
  • SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volume 4 [MC 332 Box 2, Folder 5]
  • SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volumes 1, 3, 4 w/appendix 4 [MC 332 Box 2, Folder 6]
  • SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volumes 4 w/appendix 10-13 of 16 [MC 332 Box 2, Folder 7]
  • SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - w/notes - Volumes 4 w/appendix 14 of 16 [MC 332 Box 3, Folder 1]
  • SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - Invitation for Site Proposals [MC 332 Box 3, Folder 2]
  • SCC - DOE Environmental Impact Statement - Invitation for Site Proposals - Questions and Answers - Copy 2 [MC 332 Box 3, Folder 3]
  • DOE Environmental Impact Statement Volumes 1 and 3, Volume 4 w/appendix 4 [MC 332 Box 3, Folder 4]
  • DOE - SSC Waste Generation [MC 332 Box 3, Folder 5]
  • DOE - SSC Invitation for Site Proposals w/notes [MC 332 Box 3, Folder 6]
  • DOE - SSC Invitation for Site Proposals w/notes - copy 2 [MC 332 Box 3, Folder 7]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Study - Vol. 1 [MC 332 Box 4, Folder 1]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Study - Vol. 2 [MC 332 Box 4, Folder 2]
  • North Carolina and the Superconducting Super Collider - pamphlets [MC 332 Box 4, Folder 3]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 1 - 500 [MC 332 Box 4, Folder 4]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 501 - 1005 [MC 332 Box 4, Folder 5]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 1006 - 1503 [MC 332 Box 4, Folder 6]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 1504 - 2006 [MC 332 Box 5, Folder 1]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 2007 - 2508 [MC 332 Box 5, Folder 2]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 2209 - 3007 [MC 332 Box 5, Folder 3]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 3008 - 3512 [MC 332 Box 5, Folder 4]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 3513 - 3986 [MC 332 Box 5, Folder 5]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.A.1 - pgs. 3987 - 4377 [MC 332 Box 5, Folder 6]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.B. - Response - 1 of 3 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 1]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.B. - Response - 2 of 3 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 2]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2.B. - Response - 3 of 3 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 3]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2 .A.2 - pgs. 1 - 320 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 4]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2 .A.2 - pgs. 321 - 688 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 5]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 2 .A.3 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 6]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 3 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 7]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 1-3 of 16 [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 8]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendices 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12 - 16 Errata and Revisions [MC 332 Box 6, Folder 9]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5 Errata [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 1]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5 Errata [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 1]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 7 [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 2]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 11 [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 3]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5a of 16 [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 4]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 5b [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 5]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 6-9 of 16 [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 6]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 8 [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 7]
  • DOE - SSC Final Environmental Impact Statement - Volume 4- Appendix 15 - 16 [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 8]
  • VHS Videotape - Super Collider National Video Rev. [MC 332 Box 7, Folder 9]
  • 10 Audio Cassettes [MC 332 Box 8, Folder 1]