As preliminary design continues on the forthcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, a top government official toured many of MSU’s expansive research initiatives Thursday.
Recent approvals given by U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, officials for MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, nudges the multimillion dollar project closer to completion toward the end of the decade.
The MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, project was issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI, status by the U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday. With approval, university officials can continue to construct the facility toward its 2017 completion at a total cost of about $615 million, FRIB’s project communications manager Alex Parsons said.
Feds OK design concept for MSU nuclear physics facility
Not quite two years into the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project, the U.S. Department of Energy has approved the conceptual design for the $600 million nuclear physics research facility that will be built at Michigan State University.
Opinion: Ideas for the next governor
Michigan is at one of its biggest crossroads in more than 100 years. We are competing in an ever-changing global economy, we are experiencing statewide leadership turnover at all levels with redistricting changes just around the corner, and we are struggling to provide vital services that our people need due to declining revenues in these tough economic times...I would like to offer a few top 10 lists in key areas that might help our next governor hit the ground running...These are projects, partnerships, early-phase opportunities that are already in one stage or another that are improving our state's diversification: MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams; UM Pfizer Campus, EPA lab; Wayne State University, TechTown, next Energy...
A top science and technology official in President Barack Obama’s administration was on campus Wednesday to scope out a number of MSU research projects, including a stop at the future site of the $550 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB.
Recent developments with the forthcoming multimillion dollar Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, bring the project’s researchers closer to answering science’s many unknown and unanswered questions. The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, Office of Science, gave the project critical decision 1 approval Wednesday, which establishes the design of the building to house the facility and the next phase’s cost.
The $550-million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, poses no serious environmental threats to MSU, according to a preliminary assessment of the facility’s potential impact on its surroundings.