Press Roundup: The Nuclear Sublime
Guardian - ‘A picture of hell’: inside the UK’s nuclear reactors – in pictures
Mee-Lai Stone
‘Uniquely in the UK’s power generation industry, the turbine halls in some obsolete nuclear plants remain intact. This one is similar to what the turbine hall at what is now Tate Modern would have looked like. Engineers are pragmatists – each turbine and its pipework was painted a distinct colour to facilitate maintenance – which is one reason why industrial design has such an unaffected beauty.' - Michael Collins
The TLS - Warning signs: The mystery and danger of nuclear power plants
William Atkins
It is not in the external architecture of nuclear power stations that Collins discovers that Astonishment, and indeed horror, but in the aspect that most of us will never see: the intricate mystery of their interiors. Partly for this reason, The Nuclear Sublime feels like a tour of a single techno-dystopian labyrinth, or the guts of some colossal robot, despite ranging across the country from Sizewell to Dounreay, Winfrith, Dungeness, Wylfa, Torness, Trawsfynydd, Chapelcross and finally Oxford, site of an experimental fusion reactor.
L'Œil de la Photographie - The Nuclear Sublime
