DURING THE POST WORLD WAR II race among countries to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, some risky decisions were made. One of them was the building of Sweden’s first nuclear reactor, Reaktor 1, or R1, buried 25 meters directly underneath the the ground, and within a 1 km of about 40,000 people. Nonetheless, in the heady days of the Cold War and nuclear armament, it was deemed a tolerable risk for the scientists to be able to study reactions.
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