KTH Royal Institute of Technology

KTH Royal Institute of Technology   (University)
Formation	1827
Headquarters	Stockholm, Sweden
Type	•  public •  research
The highest ranked technical university in Sweden.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education within engineering and technology, and is Sweden's largest technical university. Currently, KTH consists of five schools with four campuses in and around Stockholm.

KTH was established in 1827 as Teknologiska Institutet (Institute of Technology), and had its roots in Mekaniska skolan (School of Mechanics) that was established in 1798 in Stockholm. But the origin of KTH dates back to the predecessor to Mekaniska skolan, the Laboratorium Mechanicum, which was established in 1697 by Swedish scientist and innovator Christopher Polhem. Laboratorium Mechanicum combined education technology, a laboratory and an exhibition space for innovations. In 1877 KTH received its current name, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). The King of Sweden

KTH is the highest ranked technical university in Sweden.

R1 nuclear reactor

The R1 nuclear reactor.

After the American deployment of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II, the Swedish military leadership recognized the need for nuclear weapons to be thoroughly investigated and researched to provide Sweden with the knowledge to defend itself from a nuclear attack. 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), in a reactor hall 25 meters under the surface right underneath KTH. Today this might seem ill-considered, since approximately 40,000 people lived within a 1 km radius. It was risky, but was deemed tolerable since the reactor was an important research tool for scientists at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien).

At 18:59 on 13 July 1954, the reactor reached critical mass and sustained Sweden's first nuclear reaction. 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 associated with operating a reactor in a densely populated area of Stockholm.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	Description
Danica Kragić	Head of the Center for Autonomous Systems	2008	Bilderberg 2018

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Börje Ekholm	1963		Sweden US	Deep state functionary Businessperson	Wallenberg Sphere businessman, succeeded fellow Bilderberger Marcus Wallenberg as CEO of Investor AB. Then CEO of Ericsson.
Johan Eliasch	February 1962		Sweden UK	Businessperson	Swedish-British businessman with a heavy WEF/Annual Meeting habit. Named in Epstein's Black book.
Danica Kragić	10 August 1971		Sweden	Academic	Single Bilderberg robotics researcher. Wallenberg Sphere.
Adolf Lundin	19 December 1932	30 September 2006	Sweden	Deep state operative Businessperson	Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, and ardent anti-communist. Brother of powerful spook leader Bertil Lundin.
Björn Lundvall	12 August 1920	14 September 1980	Sweden	Businessperson	As CEO of LM Ericsson, a part of the Wallenberg Sphere, Lundvall also represented the Wallenberg family as a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Curt Nicolin	10 March 1921	8 September 2006	Sweden	Businessperson	Swedish businessman. A part of the Wallenberg Sphere, he was chairman of ASEA and the Swedish Employers Association, and attended the 1984 Bilderberg meeting.
Oscar Stenström	1975		Sweden	Civil servant Deep state operative	Swedish civil servant who negotiated the Swedish accession to NATO. Went to his first Bilderberg in 2023.
Björn Svedberg	4 July 1937		Sweden	Engineer Deep state operative Businessperson	Swedish company director and part of the Wallenberg Sphere
Hans Werthén	15 June 1919	January 2000	Sweden	Businessperson	Swedish business executive who attended Bilderberg/1983 and Bilderberg/1984 as Chairman of Electrolux and Ericsson. Wallenberg sphere.

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