MSU's $730 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is about 95-percent complete, said FRIB Laboratory Director Thomas Glasmacher. And scientists are already asking to use the FRIB’s 400-kilowatt superconducting linear accelerator. A subscription to the Lansing State Journal is required to view this article.

The upcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams in Michigan is a cutting-edge accelerator that promises great things for nuclear physicists, especially those with applications in mind.

Michigan State University received a $13 million federal grant to harvest isotopes at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

A $13 million project is aiming to harvest isotopes at Michigan State's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

Creating a new cutting-edge accelerator isn’t cheap or easy. But the upcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams in Michigan promises great things for nuclear physicists, especially those with applications in mind.

Scientists have identified three distinct shapes in stable nickel-64, a stable isotope of nickel. This discovery increases the predictive power of such nuclear structure calculations for nuclei that can only be reached at next-generation rare-isotope facilities such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.