J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Peter Huntoon papers
Huntoon, Peter W.
ACCN 2656
5.25 linear feet
11 boxes
1832-2011
The Peter Huntoon papers (1832-2011) consist of materials about nuclear technology, ranging from nuclear explosions, to power plants, to the side effects of radiation, and the effects of nuclear technologies on prominent areas which have experienced significant exposure to nuclear energy. Huntoon was a professor of Geology at University of Wyoming.
English
Norwegian
This collection is arranged alphabetically.
Peter Huntoon was a professor of Geology at University of Wyoming. Huntoon created a class at the University called Fission, Fusion and Psychosis, which referenced much of the material found in the collection.
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Donated by Peter Huntoon in 2012.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
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The Peter Huntoon papers consist of materials about nuclear technology, ranging from nuclear explosions, to power plants, to the side effects of radiation, and the effects of nuclear technologies on prominent areas which have experienced significant exposure to nuclear energy. The collection contains news articles, academic studies, and pamphlets about nuclear technologies as well as information for a class which Professor Huntoon designed and taught at the University of Wyoming. The collections has materials both supporting nuclear technologies and against nuclear technologies, and contains material from the inception of nuclear power to modern reactors and explosives
Photographs were moved to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Please see the Manuscripts Curator for access to radioactive sand from first nuclear explosion.
Huntoon, Peter W.--Archives
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear energy
Nuclear industry
Nuclear Weapons and Testing
Subject Files
A-B
Alliance for Survival Wish List
1997-1999
1
1
Argonne / Doe Sources
1984-1986
1
2
Argonne National Laboratory
1983-1984
1
3
Arms Policy
1982
1
4
Arms Race
1991-1999
1
5
Atomic Veterans
1991-1992
1
6
B29 Presentation
1994
1
7
Banberry Shot
1977-1979
1
8
Barnwell
1971-1979
1
9
Beatty, Nevada
1
10
Bighole Drilling
1980-1986
1
11
Bikini
1996-1997
1
12
Bombs
1950-1995
1
13
Bombs - Underground Tests
1983-1997
1
14
Borgman Proposal
1986-1987
1
15
Byproducts
1
16
C-F
Caputi and Art
1991
2
1
Chernobyl
1986-1996
2
2
Congressional Research Services
1982-1987
2
3
The Conversion of Commander Rodgers
1997
2
4
Courses
1986-1998
2
5
Cuba
1992
2
6
Devries Nuclear Course
1993-1995
2
7
Depleted U Shells
1968-1993
2
8
Doe - Nevada Operations
1981-1984
2
9
Doe Proposal Procedures
1983-1986
2
10
Doomsday Plan
1992
2
11
Elements and Particles
1979-1990
2
12
Enola Gay / Smithsonian
1995
2
13
Ethics
2
14
Exotic Wastes
1986
2
15
Fallout
1979
2
16
Feedback
1997-2000
2
17
FFP Course Packet
2
18
Fission, Fusion, Psychosis
2
19
Food Irradiation
1968-1998
2
20
Fuels
1990
2
21
Fusion
1989
2
22
G
Geol 3450
1990-1995
3
1
Geol 3450
1979-2004
3
2
Geol 3450 - Course Packet
3
3
Geol 3450 - Homework
3
4
Geol 3450 - Off - Campus Course Packet
3
5
Geol 3450 - Supporting Materials
1948-1990
3
6
Geol 3450 - Teleconference
1993
3
7
Geol 4200 - Rock Springs 1996
3
8
Greenpeace
1992-1993
3
9
Guam Military Strategies
1994
3
10
Guinea Pigs
1986-1998
3
11
H
Hanford
1996-1997
4
1
Hanford
1986-1991
4
2
Hanford's River Protection Project
2009
4
3
Hawaii's Nearest Neighbor
1984
4
4
Health Effects and Referrences
1995-2000
4
5
Heart Mountain Camp
1992-1997
4
6
Hiroshima Bombing
1981-1999
4
7
HLW - Climax Test
1983-1986
4
8
All folders with HLW in the Title refer to High Level Nuclear Waste.
HLW - Concept
1977-1986
4
9
HLW - Concept
1978-1991
4
10
HLW - Granite
4
11
HLW - Hanford
1978-1997
4
12
HLW - Management Concepts
1984
4
13
HLW - Seabed Disposal
1998
4
14
HLW - Waste Forms and Packages
1984-1986
4
15
HLW - Yucca Mountain
1981-2009
4
16
Home Page
1995
4
17
Honors - Nuclear Course
1987-1988
4
18
Humor
1997
4
19
I-M
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
1992-1993
5
1
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
5
2
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
5
3
Idaho National Reactor Test Station
1977
5
4
Khruschev's Secret Tapes
1990
5
5
Kryshthm
1976-1982
5
6
LLW - Commercial Sites
1976-1993
5
7
All folders with LLW in the title refer to Low Level Nuclear Waste.
LLW - Compacts
1980-1987
5
8
LLW - Nevada Test Sight
1982-1985
5
9
LLW - Waste - Overview
5
10
Lookout Mountain Studio
1995
5
11
Los Alamos
1973-1995
5
12
Manhattan Wastes
1986-1995
5
13
Markling Sites
1992
5
14
Medical
1986-1987
5
15
Medicine
1991-1992
5
16
M
Military Waste
1985-1993
6
1
Mill Tailings
1978-1986
6
2
Morris Illinois
1983
6
3
Movies - Culture
1969
6
4
MRS Wyoming
1989-1996
6
5
MRS Wyoming
1985-1998
6
6
MRS Wyoming Legislation
1995
6
7
My Story
6
8
N
NASA
1997
7
1
National Archives Tapes
7
2
National Atomic Museum
1984-1993
7
3
Natural Resources Defence Council
1989
7
4
Nevada Nuclear Waste News
1985-1997
7
5
Nevada Nuclear Waste News
7
6
Nevada State Test Site
2000
7
7
Nevada Test Site
1953-1999
7
8
Abbreviated as NTS in later folders.
Newspaper Clippings
1984-2002
7
9
NPS A-Bomb Proposal
1987-1988
7
10
Nuclear Fabrication Plants
1986-1995
7
11
Nuclear Physics Diagrams and Notes
7
12
Nuclear Power - Risks
1975-2011
7
13
Nuclear Rocket
1998
7
14
Nuclear Technology
7
15
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and Promulgated Regulations
1982-1984
7
16
Nuclear Winter
1986
7
17
N-P
NW - Act of 1982
1954-1987
8
1
NW - Act of 1982
1980-1982
8
2
Oak Ridge
8
3
Ocean Disposal
1984-1986
8
4
Pacific Testing
1994
8
5
Palo Verde Generating Stattion
1987-1993
8
6
Pearl Harbor
1943
8
7
Physicians for Social Responsibility
8
8
Plowshare and Bio Blanco Co.
1995
8
9
Pluto Rocket
1990
8
10
Proliferation / Disarmament
1992-2011
8
11
Proliferation / Disarmament
1982-1995
8
12
P-S
Protest Groups Etc
1997-1999
9
1
The Race to Build the Atomic Bomb
2001
9
2
Raddon
1985-1986
9
3
Radiation - Effects
1974-1986
9
4
Radiation - Natural / Low Level
1981
9
5
Radiation - NTS
1981-1985
9
6
Reactor Wastes and Operation and Preferences
1986
9
7
Reactors and Nuclear Energy
1981-1986
9
8
Reactors and Nuclear Energy
1976-1994
9
9
Retrievable Storage
9
10
Rocky Flats
1986-1987
9
11
Savannah River
1979
9
12
Sierra Club Legal Defence Fund
1984-1986
9
13
Sierra Club Legal Defence Fund
1983-1987
9
14
S-U
Source Materials
1983-1994
10
1
Source Materials
1983-1997
10
2
Sweetwater Mills
1995-1997
10
3
Teller
1979-1990
10
4
Texts and Tours
1985-1988
10
5
Thermopolis Hot Springs
1982
10
6
Three Mile Island
1979-1992
10
7
Time Magazine
1990
10
8
Tokyo Rose
1995
10
9
Transortation
1998
10
10
Trinity - Donna Sutton
1945
10
11
Trinity Sites
1965-1998
10
12
Union of Concerned Scientists
1987-1992
10
13
University of Wyoming Radioactive Wastes
1987-1995
10
14
U-Y
US Council for Energy Awareness
1991-1993
11
1
USS Indianapolis
1998
11
2
Utah Nuclear Waste News
1984-1986
11
3
Video
11
4
Wanek
1994
11
5
War in the Pacific
1984-1991
11
6
War- Philosophy
1832-1838
11
7
Warren Base Tours
1985-1993
11
8
Washington State
1984-1988
11
9
Waste - Overview
1979-1999
11
10
Waste Volumes
1983-1984
11
11
Wayne, John
1996
11
12
West Valley Reprocessing
1985-1986
11
13
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
1982-1991
11
14
WWII - Miscellaneous
1996-1997
11
15
WWII - Propoganda and Releases
1943-1945
11
16
Wyoming Mines and Mills
1991
11
17
Yuca Mountain
1999
11
18
Radioactive Sand from First Nuclear Explosion
1