Welcome to the
What do you need to know?
The Nuclear Information Centre (NIC) is a deliberately quasi-official sounding organisation and nomadic visitor centre designed to host an evolving and adaptable display of sculptural, audio, audio-visual and text-based artworks that critically engage with the UK’s position as both a nuclear power and a nuclear weapons state. Established in 2022 by self-appointed artist in residence Nic Pehkonen, the NIC could perhaps be thought of as a creative information reprocessing facility where publicly available, factual nuclear related material and empricial data are mixed with more speculative elements to create a range of informative, acccessible and hopefully thought-provoking exhibits that consider selective aspects of the UK’s past, present and future atomic activites within the wider context of our cumulative, global nuclear footprint.With a nod towards ongoing policies of selective openess and obfuscation within the civil and military nuclear spheres at government level and beyond, the NIC occupies a fertile space where official and unofficial informational boundaries are often blurred, fact and fiction become actively entangled and questions of ambiguity, selectivity and trust are tacitly raised.
To what extent do you trust the Nuclear Information Centre?
What else do you need to know?
Although the NIC is primarily a vehicle through which to share personal research and creative output it is also very much open to potential collaborative working so if this is something you feel you might like to explore, please contact Nic in the first instance through Nuclear Information Centre enquiries.
You may also observe NIC activities on Instagram and Vimeo.
Information last updated - Wed 27 May 2026