Jerome Kohl Papers 1942-1995

Jerome Kohl's career in nuclear applications--as a chemical engineer; nuclear instrument developer, salesperson, and marketer; nuclear engineering extension specialist; expert in energy conservation and hazardous waste management; and Sierra Club activist--spans over 50 years and mirrors the development of the peace-time/civilian nuclear industry.

Born in Montreal, Quebec on March 13, 1918, Kohl moved with his mother and three siblings to California in 1925. He graduated with a B.S. in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1940, and immediately began working at the American Potash and Chemical Corporation as an analytical chemist and experimental plant operator. A year later, in 1941, he joined the Tide Water Oil Company, where in seven years he was promoted several times from Superintendent of Fluid Catalytic Cracker to Refinery Engineer. In 1945 he married Freeke Van Nouhuys. They have two children, Joyce Eileen and Adelle Patricia.

It was at Tracerlab, Inc., Western Division, where he worked from 1948 to 1960, that he began moving from a concentration in the chemical and petroleum industry to the emerging industrial applications of radioisotopes. From 1948 to 1951, as a chemical engineer, he designed and operated air sampler testing ducts and developed bulk density and concentration gauges, but as a section leader, from 1951 to 1953, he was the project engineer on Tracerlab's Mobile Radiochemical Laboratory. It was also in 1951 that he began teaching courses in radioisotopes and elementary nuclear reactor theory and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. In that same year, he participated in (non-destructive) atomic weapons tests in the Marshall Islands. Throughout the next eight years, as he progressed to Chief Engineer and finally to Manager of Engineering Development, he continued his work with radioisotope application engineering while also concentrating on nuclear instrumentation. In particular, he developed the concepts and design engineering for a line of radiation monitoring instruments.

During this time Kohl continued to lecture on thermodynamics, process instrumentation, radioisotopes, nuclear radiation, and nuclear reactor theory and engineering at UC, Berkeley (1946-1952, 1957-1958). He spent the summer of 1956 as a guest lecturer at the Delft Institute of Technology in Delft, Holland and the French Petroleum Institute in Paris.

With twenty years of industrial and teaching experience under his belt, Kohl began to focus on working with the clients of the nuclear industry when he became Coordinator of Special Products for Gulf General Atomic Division of General Dynamic Corporation from 1960-1964. Here, his principal duties were to create and develop a marketing program in support of new products. A large part of this work involved communicating his marketing analyses and program evaluations to prospective customers, both within and outside Gulf General Atomic. He also continued to teach, at UC, San Diego, from 1962 to 1964.

Kohl moved even more fully to the marketing side of the industry when he became Manager of Marketing Services at ORTEC, Inc. in 1964. For five years, until 1969, he planned and carried out promotional activities including exhibits, advertising, and brochures; handled the statistical forecasting and reporting; and trained field salespeople in the US and Europe. During this time, he also was a lecturer at the University of Tennessee (1966, 1969).

In 1969, Kohl decided to deliberately get off the treadmill of the business world, take a big cut in salary, and enter a steady state job. In 1970, he joined the staff of North Carolina State University's Nuclear Engineering Department as a lecturer and its first nuclear extension specialist. He remained in that capacity, promoted to senior extension specialist, until 1988, when he retired. As he explained to the Raleigh Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in a 1974 lecture on the Immorality of Material Growth, he realized that the activities that gave him the greatest sense of reward were those that required time and freedom rather than money: being creative, being outdoors, and, primarily, helping others to learn. He also had grown increasingly concerned about energy waste and conspicuous consumption of resources and wanted to find ways to help people learn how to better take care of the earth.

Working in extension meant an increase in his already public orientation to the world of nuclear energy, although the public now expanded outward from industry to high school and college students to community groups. He served as a public relations liaison between the Nuclear Engineering Department and firms that were planning or had existing nuclear facilities; he sought funding for and designed educational programs (manuals, short courses, conferences, demonstrations, video tapes) on cogeneration and hazardous waste minimization and management for various industries; he gave lectures on nuclear and alternate sources of energy, energy conservation, and hazardous waste management; he obtained funding for a Regional Reactor Sharing Program that made full use of NC State University's PULSTAR reactor; he produced brochures advertising the reactor and the department to potential users and students; and he testified before a number of state and federal energy committees.

That Kohl was successful in reaching a wide number of people with information that they could use can be seen in the number of letters of appreciation he received and in how much in demand he was as a speaker. For example, his lecture Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow on power generation for the NC Attorney General's Staff Conference on the Environment in 1972 blossomed into a three-part lecture circuit in 1972-1973 that took Kohl to the NC Attorney General's Conference of Attorneys, to the Southern Regional Conference of Attorneys General, and to the National Association of Attorneys General. He also received several NC State University service awards. In 1979, he won the school-wide Outstanding Extension Award from the NC State University Alumni Association. He was awarded the 1984-1985 and the 1987-1988 School of Engineering, Fairchild Industries Outstanding Extension Service Award. The commendation for the latter remarked that the leadership of North Carolina in waste minimization is in part directly related to the extension activities of Jerry Kohl.

While he was at NC State University, he also taught a variety of courses not only for the Engineering School, but also for the Department of Economics and Business and the Division of Continuing Education. As well as lecturing on applications of radiation and radioisotopes, measurement of nuclear radiation, and management of hazardous chemical and low level radioactive waste, he introduced new classes such as Venture Management, Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Power, The Energy Crisis, and Technology Assessment.

Kohl also earned an M.S. in Marine Science from NC State University in 1975 and was heavily involved with the local and national Sierra Club as President of the LeConte chapter and as a member of their Energy Policy committee and chair of the Energy Conservation sub-committee. He combined work and pleasure by traveling across the United States and overseas, observing nuclear reactors, power plants, and hazardous waste handling facilities and speaking to various groups. In addition, he pursued his photography avocation, becoming an exhibiting member and officer of the Carolina Designer Craftsmen.

After retirement, Kohl continued to work as a speaker and consultant. In particular, he was hired by the World Bank and the National Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a series of lectures and lead a five-day workshop on environmental protection and waste reduction at the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Studies in Nanjing, China. In May 1991, he spent two weeks in China giving the workshop and visiting various manufacturing plants around the country.

The Jerome Kohl Papers contain paper records, photographs, and video tapes from 1942 to 1995 that detail Kohl's long career in the evolving fields of nuclear energy and technology transfer. Reference and lecture materials show the intellectual milieu in which Kohl was immersed. His publications demonstrate the way he synthesized that information and his own research into the kinds of ideas that engineering and science education journals found publishable. Documents relating to the contracts and consultancy work he undertook reflect both his and the nuclear industry's research interests, as well as the manner in which a scientist went about obtaining money and support from the 1950s to the early 1990s. The collection also sheds light on the peacetime uses of nuclear power in general, as well as the people and state and federal agencies involved in its forward movement and regulation. In addition, it shows the development of North Carolina State University's Nuclear Engineering department and its extension program. Other items of interest include the large group of photographs and other materials from Tracerlab from the early 1950s through the 1960s; and an assortment of material on the Sierra Club on both the national and local levels, especially relating to its positions on energy policy.

This collection provides very little personal information about Jerome Kohl, beyond the names and some birth dates of family members. However, his resumes and plans of work do give an overview of his activities. The letters of approval he received offer insight into how colleagues, administrators, and workshop participants evaluated him and his work. Some of the lectures he gave to his church in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, give users of the collection a view into his opinions on nuclear energy, hazardous waste, and energy conservation. His involvement with the Carolina Designer Craftsmen as a photographer and with the NC State University International Folk Dance Club as their advisor illustrate some of his leisure pursuits.

The Slides, 1972-1988, comprise boxes 142.48-142.52 and consist of close to 1000 color slides, mostly taken by Kohl. Originally, the slides had also been arranged by Kohl himself into subject categories and then placed into four, three-ring binders, or books. This order has been kept, and thus the series includes four subseries, each of which correspond to one of the four original three-ring binders, as follows: Book 1, Energy Alternatives; Book 2, Nuclear Energy; Book 3, Hazardous Waste; Book 4, Hazardous Waste.

Only half of the collection, however, was formally ordered in this way. The other half included lecture and reference material loosely categorized by Kohl into subject headings or into three-ring binders by NC State University course. To better show the way in which Kohl worked and the references he relied upon, these documents have been integrated into the Subject Files series, in the appropriate subseries and folder. The original Subject Files already contained this kind of reference and lecture material, so Kohl himself had established the precedent for this arrangement decision.

The Publication Files, 1959-1990, are located in one box, 142.47. It grew out of the remaining, again loosely ordered, material. One of the boxes received from Kohl contained reprints or copies of, and sometimes documentation relating to, his published books, articles, and essays. Because most of these works do not have a direct connection to any of the material in the Subject Files, the Publication Files series was created to provide an intellectual home for them. The series is arranged in three subseries as follows: Books/Manuals; Articles/Essays; and Other. Many additional articles, lectures, manuals, and reports produced by Kohl do link directly to a folder in the Subject Files. These publications have been arranged in tandem with the folder to which they relate.

From the outset it was clear that Kohl's original order did not provide the level of intellectual control which a user of the collection would require and this realization prompted several arrangement decisions. First, Kohl's original order within each of his categories was idiosyncratic--neither chronological nor alphabetical. These folders have been rearranged chronologically (except for the four cases already described). Second, all materials that relate to a specific workshop, lecture, conference, class, or project have been placed in the same physical and intellectual location. These materials include any reference and teaching materials not written by Kohl but which he compiled for that particular topic; any of his own publications that resulted from the event; as well as the documents he kept which reflect the process of conceptualizing, organizing, and finally carrying out that event. The user of the collection can count on the fact that all the records that link to each other in some way will be located together. This principle operates on both a folder and a subseries level. Thus, all folders which contain documents relating to the conference on Energy from the Oceans (three of them) will be found side by side. All folders that relate in some way to Kohl's participation in the Sierra Club, even though they may also be lectures or conferences, are grouped under Sierra Club in the Societies subseries.

Third, as much data as possible about the content of each folder has been supplied in its title. The format for each subseries varies slightly, but most folders include the date; the name of the workshop, lecture, or conference; where it took place; the organization that provided funding for the contracts; the corporation that paid for the consulting; or the title of the publication. Fourth, cross-references--bracketed and in italics--are included in the container list, which directs users to other folders in other subseries with similar content. Fifth, another cross-reference tool is a bibliography of all of the manuals, lectures, and articles that Kohl wrote, published, or spoke and of which the collection includes a written copy. Since the publications themselves are sprinkled throughout the collection, the bibliography includes the box and folder number where the publication can be found.

Finally, the photographs in the collection (but at this point not the slides) have been kept with the paper documents to which they relate. Whether they were taken by Kohl or not, they are listed individually and identified by a unique number that allows users to locate the photograph by box and by folder. For example, photograph 142.2.5.I3 is the third photograph (I3) in the 5th folder (5) of the second box (2) of the Kohl papers (142). Whenever possible, the original captions have been written in quotes. The type of photograph and its maker, if known, have also been included.

• Radiation Techniques. In Kenneth A. Kobe & John J. McKetta, Jr. (Eds.), Advances in Petroleum Chemistry and Refining, Vol. 2 (pp. 209-312). New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., (date unknown). [142.47.1]
• A Study of Alternative Opportunities for the Operation and Utilization of the NC State Pulstar Reactor and Associated Nuclear Facilities, (manuscript). Raleigh: NC State University, (Sept. 1970). [142.39.13]
• Final Report: Environmental Aspects of Electrical Power Production. Raleigh, NC: Nuclear Engineering Department, NC State University, (1972). [142.5.3]
• Final Report on Short Course: Electrical Power Generation-Comparative Risks and Benefits. Raleigh, NC: Nuclear Engineering Department, NC State University, 1973. [142.5.4]
• Boyers, Albert S. & Kohl, Jerome. Proceedings from Industrial Energy Conservation Workshop. [Raleigh: Industrial Extension Service, NC State University], (Dec. 1973). [142.32.6]
• Willey, Joan & Kohl, Jerome. A North Carolina Citizen's Guide To Commenting On Environmental Impact Statements. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University Division of Continuing Education, (1973). [142.32.4]
• Final Report on Short Course: Electrical Power Generation--Comparative Risks and Benefits. Raleigh, NC: Nuclear Engineering Department, NC State University, (1975). [142.5.6]
• Energy From the Oceans Fact or Fantasy?. Jerome Kohl (Ed.), Conference Proceedings, Jan. 27?28, 1976. Raleigh, NC: Center for Marine and Coastal Studies, North Carolina State University, (1976). [142.33.4]
• One Week Summer Workshop for High School Science Teachers on Energy Resources and Electrical Power Generation Comparative Risks and Benefits. Raleigh, NC: Nuclear Engineering Department, NC State University, (1976). [142.5.7]
• One Week Summer Workshop for High School and Community College Science Teachers on Energy Resources and Electrical Power. Raleigh, NC: Nuclear Engineering Department, NC State University, (1977). [142.5.8]
• One Week Summer Workshop for High School and Community College Science Teachers on Classroom Utilization of Available Teaching Materials on Energy. Raleigh, NC: Nuclear Engineering Department, NC State University, (1978). [142.5.9]
• Kohl, Jerome & Mulligan, Paul F. Evaluation of Potential for Cogeneration of Electricity and Process Heat in North Carolina. Raleigh and Research Triangle Park, NC: Department of Nuclear Engineering, NC State University and The Research Triangle Institute, (June 1978-May 1979). [142.6.2]
• Cogeneration and North Carolina. Jerome Kohl (Ed.), Conference Proceedings, March 7-8, 1979. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University Nuclear Engineering Department and Division of Continuing Education and Research Triangle Institute, (1979). [142.34.10]
• Kohl, Jerome, Paddock, Richard, & Rao, Deepak. A Manual For Locating Large Energy Users For Cogeneration and Other Energy Actions. Raleigh and Research Triangle Park, NC: Department of Nuclear Engineering, NC State University and The Research Triangle Institute, (1980, March). [142.6.3]
• Kohl, Jerome, et al. Wood: An Alternate Energy Resource for Appalachian Industry & Institutions. Conference Proceedings & Manual, April 1981, Winston-Salem, NC. Raleigh, NC: The Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (1981). [142.36.8]
• Kohl, Jerome, et al. Wood: An Alternate Energy Resource for Appalachian Industry & Institutions. Final Report on Conference, April 1981, Winston-Salem, NC. Raleigh, NC: The Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (1981). [142.36.7]
• Management of Hazardous Chemical and Low Level Radioactive Waste for NE 591/Ch E 598 (manuscript). Raleigh, NC: Nuclear Engineering Department, School of Engineering, NC State University, (1982). [142.21.3]
• Kohl, Jerome & Triplett, Brooke. Hazardous Waste Management Procedures and Training. Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (1982). [142.6.6]
• Kohl, Jerome & Triplett, Brooke. Hazardous Waste Management Under RCRA (manuscript). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (1982). [142.142.6.8?9]
• Partington, Barbara, Kohl, Jerome, & Dorn, Elizabeth. Making Pollution Prevention Pay in the Electroplating and Metal-Finishing Industries. Workshop summary, Charlotte and Raleigh, April 13-14, 1983. Raleigh, NC: Water Resources Research Institute of The University of North Carolina, (1983). [142.7.1]
• Kohl, Jerome & Triplett, Brooke. Managing and Minimizing Hazardous Waste Metal Sludges. Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Dec. 1984). [142.8.4]
• Kohl, Jerome, Moses, Phillip, & Triplett, Brooke. Managing and Recycling Solvents: North Carolina Practices, Racilities, and Regulations. Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Dec. 1984). [142.8.7]
• Kohl, Jerome & Triplett, Brooke. Hazardous Waste Management Under RCRA (revision). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Sept. 1985). [142.9.1]
• Kohl, Jerome & Weaver, L. A., III. Hazardous Waste Management for Small Generators (3rd printing). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Jan. 1986). [142.10.8]
• Kohl, Jerome, et al. Managing and Recylcing Solvents in the Furniture Manufacturing Industry. Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (May 1986). [142.9.3]
• Kohl, Jerome & Ziegler, Carolyn. Managing and Recylcing Solvents in the Furniture Manufacturing Industry. Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Oct. 1986). [142.9.4]
• Behavioral Change = Knowledge x Motivation: Bringing About Change in Hazardous Waste Management. In Technical Manual for the Safe Disposal of Hazardous Wastes with Special Emphasis on the Problems and Needs of Developing Countries. Cincinnati, OH: World Health Organization, ([1987]). [142.47.5] [Published as Bringing About Change in Hazardous Waste Management, 1989]
• Kohl, Jerome & Currier, John. Managing Waste Oils As A Hazardous Waste (draft). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, Nov. 1986. [142.13.4]
• Kohl, Jerome, Pearson, Jeremy, & Weaver, L. A., III. An Update on RCRA: Recent OSHA & DOT Requirements (in-house publication). Lynchburg, VA: Meredith/Burda and Siegwerk, Inc, (Jan. 1987). [142.2.7]
• Kohl, Jerome & Currier, John. Managing Used Oils. Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Mar. 1987). [142.13.5]
• Kohl, Jerome & Triplett, Brooke. Hazardous Waste Management Under RCRA (revision). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, College of Engineering, NC State University, (June 1987). [142.15.3]
• Kohl, Jerome & Weaver, L. A., III. Hazardous Waste Management for Small Generators: With Material on Buried Tanks, Waste Oil and Superfund Amendments (6th printing). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Sept. 1987). [142.10.9]
• Kohl, Jerome, Pearson, Jeremy, & Weaver, L. A., III. An Update on RCRA: Recent OSHA & DOT Requirements (in-house publication). Lynchburg, VA: Meredith/Burda and Siegwerk, Inc, (Jan. 1988). [142.2.9]
• Kohl, Jerome & DeKraay, Christina. Hazardous Waste Management for Small Generators (Addenda). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Feb. 1988). [142.11.1]
• Kohl, Jerome & Weaver, L. A., III. Management and Minimization of Hazardous Waste Under RCRA. Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, College of Engineering, NC State University, (Sept. 1988). [142.15.4]
• Kohl, Jerome & Weaver, L. A., III. An Update on RCRA: Recent OSHA & DOT Requirements (in-house publication). Lynchburg, VA: Meredith/Burda and Siegwerk, Inc., (Jan. 1989). [142.2.11]
• Kohl, Jerome, Weaver, L. A., III, & DeKraay, Christina. Hazardous Waste Management for Small Generators: With Material on Buried Tanks, Waste Oil, the Superfund Amendments, and the Land Ban (7th printing). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Apr. 1989). [142.11.2]
• Kohl, Jerome, et al. Hazardous Waste Management for Small Quantity Generators: With Material on Buried Tanks, Waste Oil, TCLP and the Superfund Amendments, and the Land Ban (10th printing). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Apr. 1991). [142.11.3]
• Kohl, Jerome & Selvam, L. Panneer. Final Report Covering Field Visits, The Seminar, and Comments on Technical Plan for Program of Study on the Establishment of China TVIE's Waste Minimization Management Systems (manuscript). Submitted to National Environmental Protection Agency of the People's Republic of China and Environment Division, Technical Department, Asia Region, The World Bank, (Nov. 1991). [142.3.12]
• Kohl, Jerome, et al. Hazardous Waste Management for Small Quantity Generators: With material about hazardous waste management and waste minimization (16th printing). Raleigh, NC: Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, NC State University, (Apr. 1994). [142.11.4]

• Radioisotopes In Industry. Engineering and Science, XIV, (Oct. 1950), 7-11. [142.47.6]
• A Procedure for Determination of Air Infiltration Rates into Airplane Cabins (manuscript). Report for Testing Division, Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., 9 Jan. 1951. [142.24.12]
• Kohl, Jerome and Newacheck, R. L. Mobile Radiochemical Laboratory. Nucleonics, 10, (May 1952), 44-45. [142.47.7]
• Tests of Tracerlab, Inc. Pipe Line Interface Marking System on the Texas Pipe Line Company Products Pipe Line, Hearne to Waco, Texas (report). Berkeley, CA: Tracerlab, Inc., Western Division, (Nov. 1952). [142.24.12]
• Check these uses for Radioisotopes. Petroleum Refiner. (Nov. 1952). [142.47.8]
• Radioisotopes in Process Instrumentation. Chemical Engineering Progress, 48, (Dec. 1952), 611-616. [142.47.9]
• How to Plan and Pay for the Safe and Adequate Highways We Need (manuscript). GM Better Highways Awards Contest, (Feb. 1953). [142.47.10]
• Properties of Some Radioactive Isotopes Useful in Radiography. Journal of the Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection, 3, (Summer 1954).79-34. (In Japanese). [142.47.11]
• Forrest, D. L. & Kohl, Jerome. Analytical Studies on the Use of Radioactivity to Measure Hydraulic Power Supply Leakage (manuscript). Report for Hughes Aircraft Company, Research and Development, Guided Missile Division, Culver City, CA, 14 Sept. 1954. [142.24.12]
• Radioisotopes in Process Instrumentation. Instrumentation, 7, (First Quarter, 1955), 27-31. [142.47.12]
• Kohl, Jerome, Newacheck, R. L., & Anderson, E. E. Locating Casing Shoe Leaks with Radioactive Argon. Petroleum Transactions, AIME, 204, (1955), 213-216. [142.47.13]
• Tracers Find Brine Well Oil Pad. Chemical Engineering. (Sept. 1956). [142.47.14]
• Monitors for Nuclear Reactor Fission Products. ISA Journal, 5, (June 1958), 43-46. [142.47.15]
• Exotic Power Sources. Electrical West. (July 1964). [142.47.16]
• Report to Members of North Carolina Senate Committee on Public Utilities and Energy on Electric Utility Economic Load Management (manuscript), 15 May 1975. [142.28.16] [see also presentation in presentation bibliography, Comments on Senate Bill 662: Energy Policy Act, 1975]
• Electricity Prices: Now It's Not Only How Much, But When You Use It (manuscript). Draft of proposed article for Sierra Club Bulletin, 27 Jan. 1976. [142.45.6]
• Cogeneration (manuscript copy). Report from National Coal Policy Project, Fuel Utilization and Conservation Task Force meeting, 6 Aug. 1977. [142.2.3]
• Utilization of Existing Energy Teaching Materials. The Journal of Environmental Education, 12, (Spring 1981), 29-35. [142.29.16] [See presentation of same name from 1979 in presentation bibliography and article in articles, essays, and reports bibliography, Summer Workshops for High-School Science Teachers, 1975.]
• Kohl, Jerome & Rao, Deepak. Locating Major Combustors by Utilizing Existing Energy DataBase Systems. Cogeneration World, 1, (July/Aug. 1982). 42-46. [142.47.17]
• Kohl, Jerome & Pearson, Jeremy. Final Report for Facilitating Alternatives to Incineration/Land Disposal of Hazardous Solvent Waste (manuscript copy). (Sept. 1985). [142.8.6]
• [Managing Contaminated Groundwater]. Manuscript copy of Waste Advisory Note. ([1985]). [142.7.4]
• Kohl, Jerome & Moses, Philip. Managing Contaminated Groundwater. Waste Management Advisory Note. Raleigh, NC: Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Branch, Environmental Health Section, (1985). [142.7.5]
• Kohl, Jerome & Moses, Philip. Managing Contaiminated Groundwater. North Carolina Waste Management Newsletter, (Sept. 1985), 21. [142.7.5]
• A Proposal to the Albermarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study for Work Entitled You Can Make a Difference (manuscript). (Jan. 1990). [142.15.5]
• Partners in Trash: Position Paper: Management of Household Hazardous Wastes (manuscript; revision). (Feb. 1991). [142.12.8]

• Properties and Applications of Radioisotopes. The Vortex X, (Oct. 1949), 442-454. [142.26.1]
• The Preparation and Utilization of Metallic Aerosols for Filter Paper Testing. Journal of Physical Chemistry 57, (Jan. 1953), 68-72. [142.26.2]
• Properties of Some Radioactive Isotopes Useful in Radiography. Nondestructive Testing, (Sept. 1953), 33-37. [142.26.3]
• Isotopes and Interfaces. The Petroleum Engineer. (March 1954). [142.26.4]
• Simple Instrumentation Determines Several Simultaneous Radioactivities. Nucleonics. (Oct. 1956). [142.26.6]
• The Use of Radioactive Tracers in the Gas Industry (manuscript). Paper given at the Pacific Coast Gas Association Technical Session, Berkeley, CA, 10 April 1956. [142.26.7]
• Nuclear Reactor Fission Product Monitors. Nuclear Engineering & Science Conference, Session XXV, Industrializing the Atom , Chicago, IL, 17-21 March 1958. American Institute of Chemical Engineers on behalf of Engineers Joint Council, 1-36. [142.26.8]
• Rocket Engine Testing & Tracer Techniques with Radioactive Isotopes (manuscript). Paper given at the Seminar for Nondestructive Testing, Bureau of Ordnance Quality Evaluation Laboratories, US Naval Ammunition Depot, Concord, CA, 20-24 October 1958. [142.26.9]
• Determining the Market for New Products, Processes or Services. Raleigh: The Industrial Extension Service, School of Engineering, (May 1970). [142.26.24]
• The Freeman Report-Proposed Federal Legislation & Actions By Some States to Implement One Stop Site Reviews (manuscript). Presentation given at the Working Conference of the North Carolina Committee on Energy & the Environment, Quail Roost Conference Center, Durham, NC, 6-7 April 1971. [142.1.2]
• Teaching Concepts Basic to Nuclear Engineering: Radiation Interaction Detection and Instrumentation (manuscript). Presentation given to the American Society for Engineering Education, annual meeting, 21-24 June 1971, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MA. [142.42.5]
• Presentation for [NC] Board of Conservation and Development (manuscript). Presentation given at Southern Pines, NC, 12 November 1971. [142.26.35]
• Comments and a Suggested Resolution on an Energy Policy for the Sierra Club (manuscript). Presentation given to the Sierra Club board members, chairmen of Regional Conservation Committees, members of Energy Task Force, and others, San Francisco, CA, [21] October 1972. [142.43.8]
• Energy and the Environment in North Carolina: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Presentation given to the [NC] Attorney General's Staff Conference, Raleigh, NC, 16 February 1973 (manuscript). [142.27.7] [see also other presentations to Attorney Generals, 1973 in presentation bibliography]
• Energy and the Environment: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (revised manuscript). Presentation given to the 26th Annual Southern Regional Conference of Attorneys General, Wilmington, NC, 17 April 1973. [142.27.9] [see also other presentations to Attorney Generals, 1973 in presentation bibliography]
• Statement for Public Hearing of October 10, 1973 of the North Carolina Energy Crisis Study Commission (manuscript). Raleigh, NC. [142.44.7]
• The Energy Crisis and the Attorney General (revised manuscript). Presentation given to the 1973 Winter Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, New Orleans, LA, 3 December 1973.[142.27.10] [see also other presentations to Attorney Generals, 1973 in presentation bibliography]
• The Energy Problem and its Consequences (manuscript). Presentation given to the Leadership Seminar of Johnson County, Clayton-Smithfield, NC, 24 January 1974. [142.27.3]
• Easing the Energy Crisis (manuscript). Presentation given to The NC Council on Technical and Managerial Services, Raleigh, NC, 13 March 1974. [142.28.3]
• Energy Conservation (manuscript). Presentation given at A Special One-Day Forum on the Impact of the Energy Situation on North Carolina's Future Economy and Quality of Life, sponsored by The NC Energy Information Program and NC State University, Raleigh, NC, 12 December 1974. [142.44.12] [see also 142.44.9-10]
• Unemployment and Energy Conservation (manuscript). Presentation given to Wake Forest University Chapter of Sigma Xi, Winston-Salem, NC, 23 January 1975. [142.28.5] [Original presentation was titled Energy Conservation: Prospects and Problems.]
• Testimony. . . on Energy Extension Service Act of 1975 (manuscript). Presentation given before the US House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development and Demonstration, Washington, D.C., 25 March 1976. [142.45.7]
• Comments on Senate Bill 662: Energy Policy Act (manuscript). Presentation given at Public Hearings, [Raleigh, NC], 6 May 1975. [142.28.16] [see also Report . . .Electric Utility Economic Load Management, 1975 in articles, essays and reports bibliography]
• Energy Conservation (revised manuscript). Presentation given to workshop on Energy/Environment/Economics, sponsored by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, UNC-Charlotte, and Duke Power Co., Charlotte, NC, 30 July 1975. [142.45.1]
• Testimony For National Hearings of the The Council on Environmental Quality on the Environmental and Energy Conservation Aspects of ERDA's National Plan for Energy Research, Development and Demonstrations Creating Energy Choices For The Future (manuscript). Washington, D.C., 3-4 September 1975. [142.45.5]
• Kohl, Jerome & Young, Harold A. Summer Workshops for High-School Science Teachers. Nuclear Technology 27, (Sept. 1975), 148-153. [142.43.3] [See other article and presentation, Utilization of Existing Energy Teaching Materials, 1979 and 1981 in articles, essays, and reports bibliography and presentation bibliography]
• In the Matter of Investigation of Peak-Load Pricing, Time-of-Day Metering, Conservation, and Load Management for Electric Utilities Operating in North Carolina (manuscript). Testimony given by Jerome Kohl and John R. Canada before the NC Utilities Commission, [Raleigh, NC], 16 December 1975. [142.28.19]
• Energy and the Environment (manuscript). Presentation given to Energy Research and Development Workshop, NC Energy Policy Council, Raleigh, NC, 24-25 March 1976 [142.28.25]
• Energy from the Oceans (manuscript). Presentation given to Conference on Energy Alternatives for the Future, Raleigh, NC, 3 April 1976. [142.28.27] [see other presentations, Energy from the Oceans, August 1976, 1977, 1979 in presentation bibliography]
• Energy Conservation (revised manuscript). Presentation given to workshop on Energy/Environment/Economics, sponsored by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, UNC-Charlotte, and Duke Power Co., Charlotte, NC, 24 June 1976. [142.45.1]
• Energy from the Oceans (manuscript). Presentation given to workshop on Energy Resources and Electrical Power, [Raleigh, NC], 9-14 August 1976 [142.28.28] [see also the presentations, Energy from the Oceans, April 1976, 1977 and 1979 in presentation bibliography]
• Need For and Implementation Of an Energy Conservation Program (manuscript). Presentation given to Seminar on Energy Conservation in Dyeing and Finishing, Raleigh, NC, 15 September 1976. [142.33.10]
• Testimony of Jerome Kohl for for Docket No. E-100, Sub 22 Load Forecasts and Future Generating Capacity Requirements (manuscript). Given before the North Carolina Utilities Commission, [Raleigh, NC], 11 January 1977. [142.45.8]
• Kohl, Jerome & Levy, D., eds. Workshop Proceedings (manuscript). Sierra Club Workshop on Effective Contribution to State Energy Conservation Plans, Rougemount, NC, 22-23 January 1977. [142.44.9]
• Energy from the Oceans (manuscript). Presentation given to workshop on Energy Resources and Electrical Power, [Raleigh, NC], 8-13 August 1977 [142.28.28] [See also the presentations, Energy from the Oceans, April and August 1976 and 1979 in presentation bibliography]
• Energy Conservation Experiences With My Home (manuscript). Presentation given to Workshop on Energy Use and Conservation, NC Dept. of Public Instruction, [Raleigh, NC], 15 Nov. 1977. [142.34.4] [See other presentations with same title, 1977-1978 in presentation bibliography]
• Energy Conservation Experiences With My Home (manuscript). Presentation given to Ninth Annual Statewide Conference of NC Science Teacher's Association, Inc., [Greenville, NC], 18-19 November 1977. [142.28.30] [see other presentations with same title, 1977-1978 in presentation bibliography]
• Trends in Energy Supplies & Prices (manuscript). Presentation given to Workshop on Electrical Practices for Energy Conservation, Raleigh, NC, 2-3 August 1977. [142.34.2] [see other presentations with same title, 1977 in presentation bibliography]
• Trends in Energy Supplies & Prices (manuscript). Presentation given to Seminar on Energy Conservation in Dyeing and Finishing, Raleigh, NC, 7-9 Sept. 1977. [142.33.11] [see other presentations with same title, 1977 in presentation bibliography]
• Trends in Energy Supplies & Prices (manuscript). Presentation given to Workshop on Measurement and Minimization of Energy Losses from Buildings, Raleigh, NC, 20-21 September 1977. [142.34.6] [see other presentations with same title, 1977 in presentation bibliography]
• Where to Get More Information on Solar Energy (manuscript). Presentation given to Workshop on Solar Energy Projects in NC, [NC State University], Raleigh, NC, 15-16 February 1978. [142.34.13]
• Energy Conservation Experiences With My Home (revised manuscript). Presentation given to Teacher's Workshop, [Raleigh, NC], Summer 1978. [142.28.30] [see presentations with same title, 1977-1978 in presentation bibliography]
• Secondary School Energy Education Experiences at NC State University (manuscript). Presentation given at Energy Education Conference IV, sponsored by Division of Science, NC Dept. of Public Instruction, [Raleigh, NC], 17-18 May 1978. [142.29.1]
• Energy Conservation Experiences with My Home (manuscript). Presentation given to Workshop on Wood and Solar as Home Energy Sources, Raleigh, NC, 26 September 1978. [142.34.18] [see other presentations with same title, 1977-1978 in presentation bibliography]
• Energy from the Oceans (revised manuscript). Presentation given to UNI495T: Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, January 1979. [142.28.32] [see also the presentations, Energy from the Oceans, April and Aug. 1976 and 1977 in presentation bibliography]
• Implications of the NC State University-RTI Study to Federal Regulations, the NC General Assembly and Utility Commission (manuscript). Presentation given to NC State University and RTI Cogeneration Study Project, Raleigh, NC, 7-8 March 1979. [142.29.11]
• Utilization of Existing Energy Teaching Materials (manuscript). Presentation given to the National Science Teacher's Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 25 March 1979. [142.29.14] [see published article of same name in articles bibliography and Summer Workshops for High-School Science Teachers, 1975 in presentation bibliography]
• Comments for Hearings on the Establishment of a North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation (manuscript). Given before the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Raleigh, NC, 2 January 1980. [142.29.23]
• Testimony by Jerome Kohl (manuscript). Given before the NC Occupational Safety and Health Project (NCOSH) Public Hearing, Raleigh, NC, 30 June 1981. [142.30.1]
• Workshops: Making Pollution Prevention Pay in Industry (manuscript). Presentation given to the Governor's Waste Management Board meeting, [Raleigh, NC], 26 May 1983. [142.30.7]
• Kohl, Jerome & Weaver, Jack. The NC State University PULSTAR Reactor (manuscript). Prepared for the International Symposium on the Use and Development of Low and Medium Flux Research Reactors, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 16-19 October 1983. [142.30.6]
• Managing and Recycling Waste Hazardous Solvents (manuscript). Presentation given to Session 10, Haz Mat-Europa Conference, Hamburg, West Germany, 26 June 1985. [142.31.10]
• Testimony of Jerome Kohl, Senior Extension Specialist, North Carolina State University (manuscript). Given before the North Carolina Legislative Used Tire and Waste Oil Study Committee, Raleigh, NC, 24 October 1986. [142.30.17]
• Waste Solvent Minimization (manuscript). Presentation given to General Electric Corporation, CEP Fall Environment Conference, New Orleans, LA, 7 November 1986. [142.30.16]
• Management of Used Oils, Hazardous Waste and Underground Tanks, by Vehicle Maintenance Facilities (manuscript). Presentation given to Tarheel Parts and Service Managers Club meeting, Wilson, NC, 6 January 1987. [142.30.15]
• NC Actions to Assist Electroplaters in Minimizing Their Metal Losses (manuscript). Presentation given at Joint Spain/USA Metal Finishing Seminar, Bilbao, Spain, 24 September 1987. [142.30.20]
• Hazardous Waste Reduction in Metal Parts Cleaning (manuscript). Presentation given to Waste Reduction-Pollution Prevention: Progress and Prospects within North Carolina Conference, Raleigh, NC, 30-31 March 1988. [142.31.2]
• Presentation for . . . Public Meeting of SARA Capacity Assurance Working Group [on hazardous waste management] . . . (manuscript). Raleigh, NC, 25 August 1989. [142.45.11]
• Industry-Environmentalists: Must it be Us Vs. Them? (manuscript) Presentation given to Chemical Industry Council of North Carolina meeting, Pinehurst, NC, 12 December 1990. [142.45.11]
• Program of Study on the Establishment of China TVIEs Waste Minimization Management Systems, Lectures I-VI (manuscript), (1991, April). Nanjing, People's Republic of China, May 1991. [142.2.5-10]
• Reducing Wastes from Electroplating: Causes of Loss and Options for Reducing Loss (manuscript). Prepared for Waste Reduction Assessment and Technology Transfer (WRATT), Technical Assistance Training Program 3, [Raleigh, NC], 15-20 September 1991. [142.31.4]

• Bibliographies. (1953-1954). [142.47.18]
• Kohl, Jerome, Reid, Elliott G., & Zumwalt, Lloyd R. (1953, 21 July). Snap Sampler Patent. US Patent Office No. 2,645,940. [142.24.13]
• Kohl, Jerome & Newacheck, Richard L. (1956, 26 June). Injector Patent. US Patent Office No. 2,752,067. [142.24.13]
• Book Reviews. (1964-1971). [142.47.19]
• Raleigh Resources: Recycle, Conserve Energy, Work with Others, Earth Day-April 22, 1990. With Liz Cave and Cathy Murphy. Raleigh: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh. [142.47.20]
• Why Me? (video tape). Educational Program for Small Hazardous Waste Generators, (undated). [142.14]
• What is a Hazardous Waste? (video tape). Educational Program For Small Hazardous Waste Generators, (undated). [142.14]
• Managing Your Hazardous Waste (video tape). Educational Program For Small Hazardous Waste Generators, (undated). [142.14]
• Waste Management Options. Video tape for Educational program for small hazardous waste generators, (undated). [142.14]

The collection has been arranged into three series:

• Subject Files
,
• Publication Files
, and
• Slides

Special Collections received the Subject Files and Slides in the order Kohl imposed on the documents. This organization -- by category of event rather than straight chronological order or order by topic -- has been kept to show the way in which Kohl worked. Thus, the subseries within each of the Subject Files series generally retain the titles that Kohl gave to his folder categories, although some have been revised to provide a more accurate description of their content.

• Adult education--North Carolina.
• Nuclear energy--North Carolina.
• Conservation of natural resources
• Energy conservation
• Energy consumption
• Energy development
• Hazardous waste disposal
• Hazardous wastes
• Kohl, Jerome
• United States. Environmental Protection Agency
• North Carolina
• North Carolina State University
• North Carolina State University--Department of Nuclear Engineering
• Nuclear counter industry
• Nuclear energy
• Nuclear engineering
• Nuclear facilities
• Nuclear reactors
• Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• ORTEC, Inc.
• Sierra Club--Joseph LeConte Chapter
• Photographers
• Radioactive wastes
• Radioisotopes
• Tracerlab, Inc., Western Division
• World Bank

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[Identification of item], Jerome Kohl Papers, MC 00142, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Received from Jerome Kohl in five installments in 1982, 1985, 1986, and 1997. The majority of the materials are from the fifth installment.