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	<title>Nuclear Information Centre</title>
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		<title>Home</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:04:06 +0000</pubDate>

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Welcome to the

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What do you need to know?


The Nuclear Information Centre (NIC)&#38;nbsp;is a deliberately quasi-official sounding organisation and nomadic visitor centre established in 2022 by self-appointed and permanent artist in residence, Nic Pehkonen. Intentionally broad in scope, the purpose of the NIC is to creatively and critically engage with the UK’s cumulative atomic activities and future legacies and share this through a range of accessible, adaptable and hopefully thought-provoking exhibits on often intertwined themes of nuclear power, weapons and waste.The Nuclear Information Centre is also a space where official and unofficial informational boundaries are frequently 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 projects. Please contact Nic in the first instance through Nuclear Information Centre enquiries.&#38;nbsp;

You may also observe NIC activities on Instagram and Vimeo.

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Information last updated - Fri 26 Sep 2025


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		<title>Sculptural Explorations</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:55:18 +0000</pubDate>

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Sculptural Explorations.




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		<title>Audio Entanglements</title>
				
		<link>https://nuclearinformationcentre.org.uk/Audio-Entanglements</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:03:40 +0000</pubDate>

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Audio Entanglements.


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	☢️️&#38;nbsp; Buried Alive&#38;nbsp;(2024) - [Duration 5m 02s]
A geological disposal facility (GDF) is commonly referred to as a passive engineering solution, utilising a series of natural and engineered barriers to isolate and contain high-activity nuclear waste deep underground. However, spent nuclear fuel and other packaged wasteforms that enter a GDF will be highly radioactive to varying degrees and will remain so for many years, in some ways very much alive; interred deep within the bedrock, encased in thick-walled copper or steel canister shaped coffins surrounded by layers of bentonite clay.

☢️️&#38;nbsp; Great British Nuclear Waste&#38;nbsp;(2024) - [Duration 4m 46s]
Exploring the sonic porosity of “the UK’s most complex and challenging nuclear site” (National Audit Office) through a collection of recorded sounds offered up by Sellafield during a partial perimeter walk in September 2022. We demand ever more energy but are we going forwards or backwards by continuing to pursue nuclear fission power generation in the UK with the inevitable increase in our stockpile of Great British Nuclear Waste and its long-term economic and environmental costs?

☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Sizewell Trees&#38;nbsp;(2023) - [Duration 2m 37s]
Creaking trees, deep in conversation in the woods around Sizewell.
It seems there’s something in the wind
and clearly lots to talk about...

☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Nuclear Alphabet Soup (2023) - [5 x recipies, each around 0m 30s duration, looped]

A selection of highly alphabetic ingredients discovered in overflowing civil and military store cupboards, combining to create a less than delicious audio-textual radioactive broth. A recipe very much engineered to be passed down through the generations.


☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Future Present (2022) - [Duration 2m 39s]

☢️️&#38;nbsp; Safety Training - updated version (2022)&#38;nbsp;- [Duration 4m 31s]


☢️️&#38;nbsp; No Cause for Alarm (2022) - [Duration 5m 0s]The Sellafield site contains some of the most radiologically hazardous buildings in Europe, if not the world. Inside these buildings regular “confidence tones” constantly play out to demonstrate the health of the alarm system and to offer reassurances that it will function as intended in case of a genuine on-site nuclear emergency.



☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Sound Reprocessing Plant&#38;nbsp;(2022) - [Duration 6m 42s]
A reworking of a Sellafield Ltd video released by the company in July 2022 to mark the closure of its Magnox Fuel Reprocessing Plant after work was completed on the last and final shipment of spent fuel from the UK’s legacy Magnox nuclear power stations. Like the Magnox and other types of spent nuclear fuel reprocessed at Sellafield over the years, the original audio recording accompanying this video has been broken up, electronically dissolved, and reassembled, with unused sections becoming audio waste.



☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Neither Confirm Nor Deny&#38;nbsp;(2022) - [Duration 4m 33s]


☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Thinking Inside the Box or Waste Streams&#38;nbsp;(2022) - [Duration 2m 44s, looped and 14m 42s, looped]

What is radioactive waste and how do we manage it? Do we tend to think of it from our position as energy producers and consumers; the inevitable end product of the nuclear fuel cycle and an engineering problem to be solved through highly shielded infrastructure and robust safety cases? Do we ever consider it in terms of the ongoing and enduring legacies of uranium mining, atomic testing and unplanned radiological releases which are not so tidily managed or contained?

☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Making it Happen&#38;nbsp;(2022) - [Duration 4m 15s]
Featuring more sounds from Sellafield where most of the UK’s high-level radioactive waste currently resides, this piece also forefronts edited audio from a 2013 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority public information video (UK nuclear waste - today's vision for tomorrow's peace of mind) which explains how we can solve the radioactive waste problem by building a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) in which to bury it. “We all need to work together to make this happen.”


☢️️ &#38;nbsp;Inspired by Nuclear Waste Services&#38;nbsp;(2022) - [Duration 2m 30s]


☢️️ &#38;nbsp;When you hear this sound (2022) - [Duration 3m 24s]
Although not made explicit, this piece comprises 260 overlayed repetitions of a section from the Sellafield site alarm information hotline, as well as exploring some blurred infrastructural and topographical boundaries between the UK’s civil and military nuclear activities. The number 260 is important because it marks the limit on the number of active nuclear warheads the UK may maintain at any given time. Although this is significantly lower than the total number held during the Cold War, it represents the first increase to potential warhead numbers for several decades..




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		<title>Textual Encounters</title>
				
		<link>https://nuclearinformationcentre.org.uk/Textual-Encounters</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:37:48 +0000</pubDate>

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Textual Encounters.
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☢️️ Strategic Defence Review&#38;nbsp;(June 2025)
☢️️ Nuclear Alphabet Soup - wordsearches&#38;nbsp;(January 2025)
☢️️ Elemental Writing&#38;nbsp;(August 2024)
☢️️ Is the Future Nuclear? (August 2022)

☢️️ Geological Disposal. (September 2022)

☢️️ Nuclear Information Centre - Key Facts. (October 2022)

☢️️ Energy Transfer. (October 2022)

☢️️ Unpredictable Times. (November 2022)

☢️️ Site Licensing Guidance. (Novermber 2022)

☢️️ Working with Official Information. (November 2022)

☢️️ Reading Between the Lines (1958-2022). (November 2022)

☢️️ The UK’s Nuclear Deterrent. (November 2022)

☢️️ A Selective Glossary. (August 2023)☢️️ The Toxic Archive.&#38;nbsp;(2024 - ongoing)




Information last updated - &#38;nbsp;Tue 03 Jun 2025



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		<title>Video Experiments</title>
				
		<link>https://nuclearinformationcentre.org.uk/Video-Experiments</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:54:58 +0000</pubDate>

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Video Experiments.


	At One with the Waste (2025)

Considering our long-term relationship with the nuclear waste we are seeking to permanently bury.

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Atmospheric Activities (2025)

Orford Ness; Now a site of seemingly ruinous beauty but one that is bound up within a highly engineered legacy of nuclear violence.


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Coppery Skin (2025)

A short, silent film merging material and alphanumeric textual elements to consider the long term geological disposal of radioactive waste within the context of our wider global nuclear footprint and drawing speculative parallels between human and planetary health.

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Sizewell BC (2025)
Once a nuclear site, always a nuclear site?

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Nuclear Alphabet Soup (2024)

A selection of highly alphabetic ingredients gathered from overflowing civil and military nuclear store cupboards, combining to create a less than delicious audio-visual radioactive broth.


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Partial Transparency (2024)

Observe the Nuclear Information Centre Pendulum as it seeks to settle on a suitable home.
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Encircled (2024)

The rocks have encirled the waste has encircled the Earth. Looking for answers to the conundrum of safely managing our radioactive waste legacy.&#60;img width="2000" height="1125" width_o="2000" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3a8459e741e3fa3548196a04588a9ec4f9d11f639416ebe5eea70f7758ff636/IMG_4759.jpeg" data-mid="237407621" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3a8459e741e3fa3548196a04588a9ec4f9d11f639416ebe5eea70f7758ff636/IMG_4759.jpeg" /&#62;Scary Nuclear Monster (2024)

Exploring our relationship with radioactive waste through the ongoing UK-wide (England and Wales only) GDF siting process and its self-declared strategy of volunteerism and public engagement.
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		<title>Finite Resources</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:16:37 +0000</pubDate>

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Finite Resources.

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The following resource list is far from exhuastive but is intended as shared repository of information, writings and other nuclear related material that may be of interest to others.
Information last updated - &#38;nbsp;Thurs 23 Apr 2026


Books
Barnes, D. and Taylor D. (1958) Radiation Hazards and Protection - A Newnes Technical Survey, London: George Newnes Limited.
Beaumont, P. D. (2021) Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain made Trident make Sense. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave studies in international relations).
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (Eds.) (2016) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Boniface, S. (2024) Exposed - The Secret History of Britain’s Nuclear Experiments. Yorkshire - Philadelphia: Pen &#38;amp; Sword Military, an imprint of Pen &#38;amp; Sword Books Ltd.
Blowers, A. (2017) The Legacy of Nuclear Power. London: Routledge, Taylor &#38;amp; Francis Group, Earthscan from Routledge.
Cockroft, W. (2026) Building for the Atomic Age - An industrial archaeology of the United Kingdom’s nuclear industry, Liverpool University Press on behalf of Historic England.
Crowther, J. (1956) Nuclear Energy in Industry, London: George Newnes Limited.
Davis, D. (Ed.) (2012) Sellafield Stories. London: Constable &#38;amp; Robinson.
Frisch, O. (Ed.) (1958) The Nuclear Handbook, London, George Newnes Limited.
Gallagher, C. (1993) American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: MIT Press.Grainger, L. (1958) Uranium and Thorium, London: George Newnes Limited.
Hecht, G. (2012) Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Henni, S. (2024) Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam.
Hirsch, N. and Waite, J. (Eds.) (2021) Don't Follow the Wind. Berlin: Sternberg Press (Critical Spatial Practice, 12). 


Holtaway, J. (Ed.) (2026) Radiant Objects - Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age. Routledge.
Hogg, J. (2016) British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the long 20th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Ialenti, V. (2020) Deep Time Reckoning - How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now,&#38;nbsp;Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Jacobs, R. A. (2022)&#38;nbsp;Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha. Yale University Press (in particular Chapter 7 - The Slow Motion Nuclear War). Jefferson, J. (Ed.) (1958) Handbook of the Atomic Energy Industry, London: George Newnes Limited.
Joyce, R.A. (2020) The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaelology Can Tell Us about Securing the World’s Most Hazardous Waste. New York, Oxford University Press.
Mudd, A., Hart, J. and Rippon, C (2024) The Archaeology of Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station, Somerset: Excavations in 2016, Volume 1: Rural Settlement and Farming from the Prehistoric to Modern Eras.&#38;nbsp;Cotswold Archaeology.Mudd, A. et al. (2024) The Archaeology of Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station, Somerset: Excavations in 2016, Volume 2: The Early Medieval Cemetery.&#38;nbsp;Cotswold Archaeology.
Postlethwaite, J. (1877) Postlethwaite’s Mines and Mining in the English Lake District. 1975 edition republished by Beckermet Bookshop, Cumbria.&#38;nbsp;
Siddington, K. and Templeton, W.L. (1958) Disposal of Radioactive Waste - A Newnes Technical Survey. London: George Newnes Ltd.
Tucker, C. (2019) How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Nature Swizterland AG: Springer Praxis Books.
Umeå Universitet. Bildmuseet (2016) The Nuclear Culture Source Book. Edited by E Carpenter. London: Black Dog Publishing. 


Volkmar, A. (2022) Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate. Lanham: Lexington Books (Environment and society).&#38;nbsp;




Articles
Heim, W. (2021) “The Times of Caring in a Nuclear World: Sculpture, Contamination and Stillness,” 11(7), pp. 7–7. doi: 10.3390/arts11010007.
Hietala, M. (2021) “Safer-Than: Making Nuclear Waste Disposal More Familiar,” Science as Culture, 30(2), pp. 287–309. doi: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1872520.
Holtorf, C. (2019) “Cultural heritage, nuclear waste and the future: what’s in it for us?” In: J. Dekker (ed.) Bewaren of Weggooien? Middleburg: Zeeuwse Ankers and COVRA. pp. 11/01-11/17
Cotton, M. (2022) “Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste: trust, cost and social acceptability”,&#38;nbsp;Journal of Risk Research&#38;nbsp;25:5, 632-647, DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2021.1957988, pp. 632-647Krütli, P. et al. (2010) ‘Technical safety vs. public involvement? A case study on the unrealized project for the disposal of nuclear waste at Wellenberg (Switzerland)’, Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 7(3), pp. 229–244. doi: 10.1080/1943815X.2010.506879.
Marsh, A.,Williams, L. and Lawrence, J. (2021), “The important role and performance of engineered barriers in a UK geological disposal facility for higher activity radioactive waste”, Progress in Nuclear Energy 137 (2021) 103736
Sellin, P., Leupin, O.X. The Use of Clay as an Engineered Barrier in Radioactive-Waste Management a Review. Clays Clay Miner. 61, 477–498 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.2013.0610601



Reports

Bodel, W et al. (2023), Managing the UK Plutonium Stockpile: No easy choices, The University of Manchester Dalton Nuclear Insitiute.

Overview of waste materials designated for disposal in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) - An update version should be published in 2024.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-inventory-for-geological-disposal

Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) Position Paper: Consideration of the UK Uranium Inventory, Management and Disposal Options (July 2023)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1175678/corwm-consideration-uk-uranium-inventory-management-disposal-options.pdf

Local Authority &#38;amp; Emergency Services Information (for nuclear materials transports around the UK)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61a642c0d3bf7f05539de528/20211129-LAESI-Ed12-MHCLG-Tweak-final.pdf


Nuclear Waste and Geological Disposal (UK).

UK GDF Community Partnerships:

Allerdale, https://allerdale.workinginpartnership.org.uk****Note***
As of 28 Sept 2023, Nuclear Waste services withdrew Allerdale, citing lack of suitable geology.
And then there were three...

Mid Copeland, https://midcopeland.workinginpartnership.org.uk

South Copeland, https://southcopeland.workinginpartnership.org.uk

Theddlethorpe, https://theddlethorpe.workinginpartnership.org.uk
&#38;nbsp;
Possibly soon to be just two...
Update on Lincolnshire County Council Website (Published: 18th March 2025)https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/news/article/2293/county-council-set-to-withdraw-from-nuclear-waste-facility-group

Further update: As of 03 June 2025, Theddlethorpe Community Partnertship has officially withrawn from the GDF siting process.https://theddlethorpe.workinginpartnership.org.uk/theddlethorpe-community-partnership-comes-to-an-end-as-council-withdraws



UK GDF Working Groups:

As of 25 January 2024 a new GDF working group has been formed in the coastal East Riding of Yorkshire, seemingly fitting the peripheral community model that predominantly seems to define the siting of nuclear facilities. (Blowers, 2017).South Holderness,&#38;nbsp;https://southholderness.workinginpartnership.org.uk/

On 21 Feb 2024, East Riding Council voted 54 to 1 to withdraw South Holderness from the GDF siting process.
Nuclear Waste Services YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpFJyxnagWhTWURacGN42KQ/videos

Sellafield Ltd, YouTube Channel
 https://www.youtube.com/user/sellafieldsites/videos 

UK Government.
 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/nuclear-waste-services
 
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gdf-geological-disposal-facility

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nuclear-deterrence-factsheet/uk-nuclear-deterrence-what-you-need-to-know

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/successor-submarine-programme-factsheet/successor-submarine-programme-factsheet

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nuclear-energy-what-you-need-to-know

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/magnox-ltd

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/about-national-geological-screening-ngs

https://ukinventory.nda.gov.uk

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-inventory-for-geological-disposal

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/nuclear-restoration-services
https://nrsssg.com (formally magnoxstakeholdergroups.com)Other UK Organisations.
NuLeaf (Nuclear Legacy Advisory Forum). An independent and representative body of the Local Government Association. &#38;nbsp;

Nuclear Industry (UK).

EDF Energy (Nuclear)

Hinkley Point C (EDF)

Sizewell C (EDF)

Rolls Royce plc (Submarines)
Rolls Royce plc (SMR)


UK and International Organisations.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)


International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Nuclear Information Service (NIS)
World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO)
World Nuclear Association

World Nuclear News


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		<title>Nuclear Futures?</title>
				
		<link>https://nuclearinformationcentre.org.uk/Nuclear-Futures</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:19:53 +0000</pubDate>

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Nuclear Futures?

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On the surface, Nuclear Futures? is a virtual space for introducing partially formed ideas or proposals for future work that has either not yet been made or may even never be physically realised. However, through the simple act of describing or outlining a piece of work we could say that it already exists in a virtual sense, where the reader is free to take it wherever they want within the realms their own imagination. We could even go a step further (or back) and consider these works, having already been described (or partially realised), must now also exist in the past.

So, in the same way that nuclear pasts, presents and futures are forever intertwined, the same could also be said of Nuclear Information Centre future projects.

Information last updated - Sun 15 Jun 2025

Cranes and Plutonium.

On a site tour of Hinkley Point C in May 2025, organised by the HPC Community Forum and led by members of the Hinkley Point Visitor Centre we were overwhelmed with facts, figures, numbers and statistics about the construction. One that particularly stood out was that we were told there were 140 cranes on site. Interestingly, the UK has 140 tonnes of Plutonium currently stored on the Sellafield site awaiting final disposal. This has triggered thoughts of a possible sculptural installation combing the two. What it may look like is unclear although it is highly likely it would be made of string and bentonite plutonium rings.
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Test of Public Support.
Even if a suitable site is identified for a GDF, it must still pass a test of public support before construction can proceed.&#38;nbsp;
Test of Public Support is conceived as a sculptural installation comprising a set of polling booths, one for each of the current GDF Community Partnerships where you are invited to cast your yes or no “vote” (but on what basis?). A “Test of Public Support” is the planned culmination of the first phase of any GDF (Geological Disposal Facility) siting process and the mechanism by which a final decision will be made as to whether or not a GDF will be built within the Community Partnership area boundaries. Assuming any or all the current Community Partnerships get to this stage, any test of public support may not happen for another 25 years or so which also means any community that exists as of now will have been potentially subject to a generational change by the time a test of public support is reached. Another thing that is unclear is what happens if no Community Partnership ever passes a test of public support and a willing community is never found. This is a question I have asked in person to representatives of Nuclear Waste Services but no clear answer was forthcoming. Another way of asking this would be “What are the alternatives if the consent-based approach fails?” Also, what are the parameters that would define consent (or support) in the first place and how are these to be decided?Note: I actually made a trial version of this which was exhibited in Jan/Feb 2025 as part of an end of residency exhibition at The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham.

For information, Nuclear Waste Services official guide on Community Guidance can be found here.


Living on the Edge (Closed circuit loop(s) of Aldermaston).

An experiment in documentation and non-documentation, consisting of a single but continuous walk around the edge of the AWE Aldermaston site, staying as close to the perimeter fence as possible without officially trespassing: on the outside looking in. The concept would be for the walk to be deliberately unanounced and undocumented on my part but to see if it results in any engagement with the MOD police. Whatever happens, this would be followed up by a freedom of information (FOI) request to try and find out to what extent (if any), my presence had been documented from within the site, either via camera or the written word. This project also considers edges and barriers and the interface between public and restricted access areas. What happens when we consciously explore these spaces and why? What human and non-human interractions take place? Nuclear site perimeter fences are usually wire constructions of some kind with a certain seethroughness so to some degree we can also pass beyond the fence with our senses which simultaneously situates us both outside and inside.


Water.

Visits to Faslane (Clyde Naval Base) and Sellafield in 2022 started me thinking more broadly about the importance of water in relation to nuclear activity. Of course, water is essential to all life but in terms of the nuclear cycle it plays a major role in all areas; from uranium mining to plant cooling systems, steam generation, underwater weapons systems and spent fuel storage ponds. Interestingly, it is only at the very end of the nuclear cycle with the so-called final disposal of waste that water becomes undesirable in terms of the risk it presents to the tramsmission of radio nuclides through ground water.


Nuclear Safety is our Overriding Priority.

Carve a scale version of a UK Trident nuclear warhead out of granite.

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EDF displays one of these granite carved blocks in public view outside each of their UK sites. Of course, these relate specifically to the civil nuclear industry but given the UK’s civil and military activities have been historically interwoven, what if we were to apply the same message to the UK’s nuclear weapons programme(s)? We are officially informed and would very much hope Defence Nuclear Material (DNM) is being handled safely but what if we think about the safety of nuclear weapons within a broader context? Do concepts of safety become more slippery? How responsible is it to intentionally create and use such weapons of mass destruction as we have seen through the US/Allied bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski and the subsequent decades of nuclear weapons testing? Only 9 countries globally are known to be nuclear weapons states (NWS). Are we all safer because these 9 countries have nuclear weapons? Does this make these 9 countries somehow more responsible than any other non-nuclear weapons state?

Perhaps use green granite? Green Granite was the codename for the warhead/bomb design used in the UK’s Operation Grapple Pacific Island weapons tesing programme that took place in 1957-8. These were the UK’s last atmospheric weapons tests prior to the international moratorium that came into effect in October 1958. Nevertheless, the legacies of the UK’s nuclear weapons testing programmes still remain.


Elemental Writing.

Text-based laboratory experiments on an atomic level, exploring the textual, sculptural and performative possibilities of working with the periodic table of elements in a way that is strictly rules based yet with vast scope for experimentation and creativity.


Elemental Writing involves forming words, poems or text constructed entirely of chemical element symbols. These could be existing words or made up words or a combination of both which can then be arranged as you like. You can look to bring meaning to your text or you can simply just enjoy the visual nature of the written words or how it sounds when spoken or read.Additionally, as each element has a corresponding atomic number all text will have an equivalent numeric version which can be deployed or not, like secret nuclear codes perhaps...
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Elemental Writing workshop @ The Wilson Art Gallery &#38;amp; Museum, Cheltenham (14 Aug 2024).

Soft Trident.

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This is a life size (in length) “soft” version of a UK/US Trident 2 D-5 missile contructed from a single sheet of hoticultural fleece . At 13.42m long (6.62m circumference), the UK arms each of its Trident missiles with up to 5 x 100 kiloton nuclear warheads, each one represented here by a single knot. The UK currently deploys up to 8 x Trident missiles and 40 warheads at any one time as part of its submarine based “Continuous at sea (nuclear) deterrent”.
In 2016, the UK Parliament voted to renew the Trident system which also includes building 4 x new Dreadnought class nuclear submarines and the development and manufacture of new warheads in time. 
 Whilst the dimensions of this piece are based on hard, empirical data the softness of this version offers an alternative to the missile’s destructive power. Now rendered militarily useless and floppy it becomes more tactile than tactical. However, the 1:1 scale acts a literal device through which to draw the viewers attention to the physicality of UK’s nuclear ‘deterrent’. On the whole, Trident remains largely hidden from sight and arguably out of mind, shrouded by security and secrecy. Arguably, the immediate post Cold War politcal landscape also created the conditions for nuclear weapons to begin to fade from public consciousness, despite the fact that they have always remained in the hands of all existing nuclear weapons states. However, with the increasing geopolitical tensions of recent years, this trend has been definitively thrown into reverse. By bringing the subject of nucler weapons firmly out into the open, Soft Trident has the potential to stimulate debate and discussion on the subject and also to highlight the UK’s current position as just one of nine nuclear weapons states globally..

A more provocative installation of this piece would be to throw it across the road in front of an apporaching nuclear warhead convoy, police ‘stinger’ operation style.

Soft Trident could be hung individually or also as a series of 8 (as per my Ghost Trident). A hanging system would need to be devised. Possibly involving some sort of noose system as if to imagine the public execution of Trident having been judged guilty of potential state-sanctioned mass destruction.

The Toxic Archive.

The Toxic Archive is a potential NIC exhibit exploring speculative entanglements between radioactive waste and museum collections. Fusing fact and fiction, the archive time travels back and forth, creating part engineered, part haphazard encounters with real and imagined objects whilst simultaneously raising questions around curatorial selectiveness and cultural heritage.&#38;nbsp;


What is a GDF? or perhaps an alternative title: At One with the Waste.

A physical archive of human generated nuclear activities?
A burial chamber but one in which radioactive waste is buried “alive”?
An future archaeological site but one we hope no one will ever unearth?
A radioactive mycelium? (a series of tunnels and vaults spreading out underground interspersed with containers of radioactive material that may disperse their radionuclides back up to the surface in time).
The best possible solution for our radioactive waste problem?


Technical questions.
Where is the excavated rock stored during the “construction” process?
What then happens to it?
Does it become a commodity or is the intention to re-introduce it back&#38;nbsp;into the host rock at the end?
How much and what type of bentonite will be required as buffer material?
How much copper and steel will be required to package the waste before internment?
Where will these materials be sourced from?

The siting process.
We are officially told geological disposal is the internationally agreed, best possible solution to the radioactive waste “problem”.
The UK Government is now seeking to implement a GDF through Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), a subsidiary of the government owned Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
To what extent is the GDF siting process truly based on volunteerism and consent?
How is the process initiated?
What is a community?
What are the parameters of the ultimate test of public suppport that will define consent?
Can consent be passed from one generation to another?
The current GDF process is now 7 years in and only 4 community partnerships have formed in that time with 2 dropping out for different reasons. Will there be any more? Also what happens if a suitable site and willing community is not found?



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NIC Installations.

	
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Deep Time, @ Fringe Arts Bath, May/June 2024

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Bath Open @ 44AD, Bath, Oct 2023


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Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham, Feb 2023





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