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Collection Number: 04871

Collection Title: Cecelia Conway Papers, 1983-1987

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Size 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2500 items)
Abstract Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power and Light2 s Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County, N.C. Files of the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH) document the organization and activities of CASH, as well as interaction with government officials and nuclear industry professionals, press releases, and newspaper articles. Also included are CASH2 s files relating to state and federal government agencies, Carolina Power & Light, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and various related organizations and publications. The collection also includes a few personal papers of Cecelia Conway.
Creator Conway, Cecelia.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Cecelia Conway papers #4871, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Cecelia Conway of Boone, N.C. in March 1997 (Acc. 97035).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Linda Sellars, May 1998

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

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Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power and Light2 s Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County, N.C.

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The collection contains the files of the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power & Light's Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Chatham County, N.C. The internal organization and activities CASH are chronicled, along with public activities, interaction with legislature and nuclear industry professionals, press releases, and newspaper articles. Also included are CASH's files relating to state and federal legislature, Carolina Power & Light, and various related organizations and publications. Clippings about nuclear power plants, nuclear waste, the Chernobyl disaster, and problems at other nuclear sites are included. Many clippings and whole issues of the Raleigh News and Observer, the Raleigh Times, the Durham Morning Herald, the Durham Sun, the Independent, and the Spectator, all of which published frequent articles, editorials, and letters to the editor about Shearon Harris, were not retained in the collection.

These materials arrived at the Southern Historical Collection with very little organization. They have been roughly sorted and arranged and put in archival folders and boxes. Some duplicates were removed, but many remain in the collection. Similar material may be found in more than one place in the collection. Researchers therefore should be inclusive in their searching strategies.

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Contents list

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Folder 76

Chernobyl- Medical Response

Folder 77

Three Mile Island.

Folder 78

Medical Information.

Folder 79

Miscellaneous Fact Sheets.

Folder 80

Miscellaneous Maps.

Folder 81

Pictures.

Folder 82-83

Folder 82

Folder 83

Incomplete Documents

Folder 84-86

Folder 84

Folder 85

Folder 86

Clippings

Folder 87

Clippings

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Folder 88-89

Folder 88

Folder 89

Personal papers

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