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The Royal Institute of Technology or '''Kungliga Tekniska högskolan''' (KTH) is a University in Stockholm , Sweden . KTH was founded in 1827 and is Scandinavia's largest instituition of higher education in technology and one of the leading technical universities in Europe . CAMPUS The main campus building at Valhallavägen, by architect Erik Lallerstedt , was completed in 1917 . The buildings and surroundings were decorated by prominent early 20th century Swedish artists such as Carl Milles , Axel Töreman , Georg Pauli , Tore Strindberg and Ivar Johnsson . The older buildings on the campus went through a complete renovation in 1994 . While the original campus was large for its time, KTH very soon outgrew it and the campus was expanded with new buildings. Today KTH institutions and faculties are distributed across several campuses in Stockholm County . guarding the entrance to KTH]] HISTORY The origin of the school was the Technological Institute in Stockholm, which was started in 1826. In 1877 the name was changed into the current one. R1 After the World War 2 , and more specifically the two American Nuclear Weapons used on the two Japanese cities Hiroshima And Nagasaki , the Swedish military leadership recognized nuclear weapons as something that should be thoroughly investigated and researched to provide Sweden with knowledge on how to defend itself from a nuclear attack. At this time Sweden knew virtually nothing about Nuclear Physics , as all information about the American bombs and the research around them was kept strictly confidential by the United States. With the mission to "make something with neutrons", the Swedish team, with scientists like Rolf Maximilian Sievert , set out to research the subject and eventually build a Nuclear Reactor for testing. After a few years of basic research, they started building a 300 kW (later expanded to 1 MW) reactor, named "Reaktor 1", ''R1'' for short, in a reactor hall 25 meters under the surface right underneath KTH. Today this might seem ill-considered, to say the least, since approximately 40,000 people lived within a 1 km radius, but at the time the risks were deemed tolerable since it meant having the reactor very close to scientists of the Royal Swedish Academy Of Engineering Sciences (''Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien''). At 18:59, 13 July 1954 , the reactor reached Critical Mass and Sweden's first sustained nuclear reaction was a fact. R1 was to be the main site for almost all Swedish nuclear research until 1970 when the reactor was finally decommissioned, mostly due to the increased awareness of the risks involved with operating a reactor in a densely populated area like Stockholm. The reactor is long gone, but the reactor hall remains to the amusement of many as they are told that they're standing next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor. Close to the reactor hall is the restaurant ''Quantum''. ORGANIZATION From 2005 KTH is organized into a number of schools each consisting of a number of departments:
STUDENTS ''See: The Student Union At The Royal Institute Of Technology '' NOTED ALUMNI Many Swedish industrial leaders have graduated from KTH.
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