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MUMBAI: A nuclear source sitting in an out-of-bounds basement of a distinguished heritage campus in south Mumbai will be moved out soon. At a time when the authorities of the Institute of Science were making plans to demolish an old single-storey structure and go skyward, old-timers pointed to the nuclear source— Californium-252 and Plutonium Beryllium— within the campus that needed to be safely relocated first.Once assessed and rehomed, this will close a rich chapter in history of the institute, which boasts a distinguished nuclear chemistry laboratory Envisioned by...