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 ongoing position as both a civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons state. Established in 2022 by self-appointed artist in residence Nic Pehkonen, the NIC specifically draws on publicly available nuclear related material and empirical data to create a range of hopefully informative, accessible and thought-provoking exhibits that consider selective aspects of the UK’s past, present and future atomic activities within the wider context of our cumulative, global nuclear footprint.With a nod towards varying degrees of openess and obfuscation within the civil and military nuclear spheres at government level and beyond, the NIC occupies a creatively 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, Vimeo and Soundcloud.
Information last updated - Fri 03 Jul 2026