External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Today’s wintry mix of snow, rain and sleet is not stopping Michigan State University’s major nuclear science project from moving forward into a new construction phase.
Funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science, MSU, and the State of Michigan, FRIB is a $730 million project that will one day play host to the study of rare isotopes. Rare isotopes are not normally found in nature. Most are forged in spectacular cosmic processes and in rare isotope accelerators—something that would take place within the confines of FRIB.
In as few as five years, the construction workers pouring concrete and raising steel near the corner of Bogue Street and Wilson Road on Michigan State University's campus will be replaced with scientists. It's easy to believe in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a $730 million nuclear science research facility, now that work is happening, said Lou Anna Simon, the university's president, sitting in her sunlit office on the fourth floor of the Hannah Administration Building.
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees authorized the university to proceed with the construction of a building that will house staff affiliated with the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The 74,250-square-foot facility will include offices, conference rooms and a 265-seat lecture hall.
Greater Lansing owes gratitude to the efforts of Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon. Her influence on the university, the region and the state will be evident for years to come. And one of its most important investments in decades is the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, an internationally significant research facility that will keep MSU at the forefront of physics research.
The project is located on the campus of Michigan State University. As 6 News’ Nick Perreault explains, the university is as excited as the president when he announced his $100 million budget recommendation this week.
The Obama administration on 2 February presented its budget request to Congress for the 2016 fiscal year, which begins in October. ScienceInsider tracked the numbers on rollout day and provided analysis. Nuclear physics receives a 5% increase, to $625 million. That’s consistent with the funding needed for construction of the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
Twenty members of The Engineering Society of Detroit got an up close and personal look at the technology behind the nation’s No. 1 graduate program in nuclear physics Thursday, at an ESD members-only tour of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.
Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams would receive the full $90 million requested for continued construction under a spending bill Congress hopes to pass this week to keep the federal government running.
It’s a cold day in East Lansing, but many are braving the cold to catch a glimpse of the next major step in a $730 million nuclear physics project.
At 6 a.m., work crews began pumping concrete into the 1,500 foot long hole that will one day contain the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
Hundreds pass the construction site for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on MSU's campus each day, but few know exactly the importance of what will happen at the FRIB.
