Nucleus, the Nuclear and Caithness Archives the transfer of 330,000 photographs and 200 tonnes of documents from nearby Dounreay power station. The transfer of the whole archive will be complete by 2022 and will include 80,000 boxes of files from Sellafield and a similar number held by Magnox Ltd. The digital archive comprises 30 million records dating back to the late 1940s. The archive was supplemented by the transfer of a collection of 1950s era nuclear-related journals from the library of the North Highland College. The Caithness county archive had previously been housed at the Caithness Archive Centre in Wick Library but had outgrown the storage
Bradwell nuclear power station the turbine hall was demolished in 2011, and by 2016 underground waste storage vaults had been emptied and decontaminated. In 2007 Bradwell became one of the sites being considered by British Energy for redevelopment in a new round of nuclear reactors. On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Bradwell was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. In 2014 "The Sunday Times" reported that the China General Nuclear Power Group and China National Nuclear Corporation were preparing preliminary designs for a 3 GW nuclear power station at Bradwell to submit to the