diff --git a/app/controllers/reports_controller.rb b/app/controllers/reports_controller.rb
index e249372c7..783a55524 100644
--- a/app/controllers/reports_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/reports_controller.rb
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ class ReportsController < ApplicationController
     page_html_string = render_to_string 'reports/new.html.erb', export_all: true
     parsed_page_html = Nokogiri::HTML(page_html_string)
     parsed_pdf_html = parsed_page_html.at_css('#report-content')
+    @report.destroy
 
     filename = "#{@project.name}.pdf"
     parsed_pdf = render_to_string(
@@ -411,7 +412,6 @@ class ReportsController < ApplicationController
     report.last_modified_by = current_user
 
     report.save_with_contents(report_contents)
-    # TODO: do report.destroy after it is downloaded
     report
   end
 
diff --git a/app/models/report.rb b/app/models/report.rb
index 0c01fca99..3a927f44a 100644
--- a/app/models/report.rb
+++ b/app/models/report.rb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class Report < ApplicationRecord
 
   # Report either has many report elements (if grouped by timestamp),
   # or many module elements (if grouped by module)
-  has_many :report_elements, inverse_of: :report, dependent: :destroy
+  has_many :report_elements, inverse_of: :report, dependent: :delete_all
 
   after_commit do
     Views::Datatables::DatatablesReport.refresh_materialized_view