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
Oldbury Nuclear Power Station an urban area twice the size of Bristol. Reactor 1 went critical on 18 September 1967 and first generated electricity on 9 November 1967, Reactor 2 started generating electricity in April 1968. The construction was undertaken by a consortium known as The Nuclear Power Group ('TNPG'). The reactors were supplied by TNPG and the turbines by AEI and C. A. Parsons & Co. The main civil engineering contractor was Sir Robert McAlpine. Construction on site began in 1961. Oldbury was the first nuclear power station in the UK to use prestressed concrete pressure vessels, earlier Magnox reactors having used steel