In September 1967 my grandfather visited Stockholm for a meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 45, setting standards for nuclear reactor test equipment. TC45 held yearly conferences, rotating around mostly European cities. My grandfather was very serious about taking photographs and left slides from each trip. In addition to a couple carousels of slides of Stockholm, he left an assortment of ephemera from the trip. My grandmother accompanied him and left brief hand-written notes as well.
Here I share two pamphlets describing Sweden’s new nuclear power facilities and exterior photos of the two facilities.
Atomenergi
First describes the nuclear power facilities in Sweden along with a brief timeline of atomic energy history in Sweden:
Ågestaverket Nuclear Power Plant
The second document describes Ågestaverket, a nuclear power facility that was opened in 1964, just a few years before my grandfather’s visit. (I’ve turned off pdf embed because of formatting issues for a second embed.
Here is a photo that my Grandfather Cook took of the Ågesta nuclear reactor site. This is the Agesta nuclear reactor south of Stockholm, Sweden. It only operated for ten years, from 1964 to 1974. When my grandfather visited in 1967 it was billowing steam. This is scanned from a Kodachrome slide. Date stamp October 1967, photo taken in September. Slide cartridge “Stockholm Skansen”. Unlabeled slide “05 W4”.
Studsvik Nuclear Power Plant
When I wrote this in 2015, I planned to post more materials from the trip. I’ve now (2025) added Studsvik photos below. I don’t know if I will add more material to this article.
Further reading
- Gallery of September 1967 Stockholm trip photos by my grandfather
- Part A of photos taken by my grandfather in Moscow
- Part B of photos taken by my grandfather in Moscow