A summary of recent experimental efforts on nuclei in very close vicinity to the doubly magic 132Sn and perspectives for further progress in the very near future, are presented. A special attention is given to the selected key developments in this mass region via three avenues of production and investigation of exotic nuclei: \beta decay at the ISOL facilities, prompt \gamma -rays in spontaneous fission probed using large Ge arrays, and \mu -second isomers produced in the fragmentation and in-flight separation of energetic uranium beams or in fission using recoil separators.
PACS numbers: 27.60.+j, 21.10.Pc, 21.60.Cs
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