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
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station effect kills plant and animal life around reactor discharge systems by curtailing the light and oxygen they need to survive; however, the intake and discharge canals remain a popular and lucrative local recreational fishing spot for local residents. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Pilgrim was 1 in 14,493, according to an NRC study published in August 2010. Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) is the only nuclear power plant operating in Massachusetts. It is located in the Manomet section