Welcome to FRIB
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The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will be a new National User Facility for nuclear science, funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), Office of Nuclear Physics and operated by Michigan State University (MSU). FRIB will cost approximately $600 million to establish and take about a decade for MSU to design and build.
The new facility will provide intense beams of rare isotopes (that is, short-lived nuclei not normally found on Earth). FRIB will provide scientists critical information about the properties of these rare isotopes in order to better understand the origin of the elements and the evolution of the cosmos. Find out more about the facility.
FRIB News
- 04-22-10 — White House Science and Technology official Kei Koizumi visited FRIB during a tour of MSU.
- 03-12-10 — A forum discussing the potential for harvesting and processing of "designer" isotopes for basic and applied research programs.
- 02-24-10 — The FRIB Equipment Workshop was well-attended and productive.
- 02-03-10 — Obama administration budget includes funds for Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
- 11-12-09 — The Department of Energy (DOE) and Michigan State University hosted an educational open house and public scoping meeting on Nov. 11, 2009
- 11-02-09 — Bradley Sherrill, FRIB Chief Scientist, was interviewed on Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know, a popular quiz and entertainment radio program.
