The research reactor outside Nyköping has been dismantled - is no longer radioactive

It was in 1960 that the reactor was first put into operation and in 2005 it was shut down.

But it wasn't until almost ten years after that, in 2014, that they started planning a demolition of the building.

And it was the most radioactive parts that needed to be removed first.

- We have worked in three stages, where stage one was the reactors themselves, says Johan Flygare, project manager for the R2 decommissioning project.

Will be a gravel pitch

Now that the building has been cleared by the Radiation Safety Authority, it can be demolished like any other building.

That is, without special security measures.

- The goal is now to create a gravel surface, so that the place can be used for other purposes in the future, says Johan Flygare.

Took several years

According to Flygare, the fact that it took several years from the reactor being shut down until it was dismantled is due to the fact that it was a large project and that it involved a research reactor, which was rebuilt several times.

- We had to demolish at a certain pace and in a certain order.

We didn't have a real conclusion there when we started, he says.

According to the energy company Vattenfall, the reactor at Studsvik is the first nuclear facility to be declassified in Sweden since the research reactor R1 at KTH in Stockholm was declassified in the 80s.