Remains of nuclear reactor stored in UCC

ONE of the country’s largest universities is sitting on a two-and-a-half tonne nuclear store of uranium rods, the remains of a nuclear reactor which has been stored in one of its basements for 17 years.

University College Cork has stored the material in the basement of its physics department since 1986.

It wants to get rid of the material and is facing a bill of several million euro for the transport abroad of the 1,400 uranium slugs, along with a supply of plutonium.