Civil construction on the FRIB Project continues to advance ahead of schedule and is quickly approaching beneficial occupancy in March 2017. Raised-access flooring in the surface building is now complete...

The FRIB Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) met on 8-9 December at Michigan State University. The SAC reviewed the laboratory plans for realizing a successful Day-one FRIB scientific program. The SAC...

The Department of Energy (DOE)-Office of Science (SC) Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 6-8 December. The main focus of the review was to assess overall...

The fourteenth meeting of the Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) was held 9 to 11 November. With FRIB Accelerator Systems Division (ASD) construction and installation activities in full swing, ASAC...

The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee (ESAC) held a review of FRIB experimental systems 31 October to 2 November. The special focus of this review was on magnets, but other areas...

As civil construction on the FRIB Project advances ahead of schedule, the progress is allowing more technical installations to take place. Technical installation milestones include: On 27 October, the 4.5...

As civil construction on the FRIB Project advances ahead of schedule, the progress is allowing more technical installations to take place. On 27 October, the 4.5 Kelvin lower cryogenic cold...

FRIB construction continues to move ten weeks ahead of schedule, with an increasing number of technical installations enabling technical milestones. The Advanced Room-TEMperature Ion Source (ARTEMIS) platform is complete, which...

The FRIB Project has reached a new milestone: the extraction of the first ion beam from its Advanced Room-TEMperature Ion Source (ARTEMIS). On 12 October, FRIB staff turned on ARTEMIS...

FRIB hosted the 28th Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC 16) from 25-30 September at Michigan State University. The conference is held biennially and is the largest international conference dedicated to linear...

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams installed the first of 48 cryomodules into its linear accelerator tunnel. When FRIB is in operation, the linear accelerator will drive a beam of...

The FRIB office tower 3 addition has reached substantial completion, and employees are moving into the new addition. The parking lot, sidewalk, and new bike loops have been installed around...

FRIB civil construction continues to progress 10 weeks ahead of schedule, with an increasing number of technical installations. Most notably was the installation of the 100,000-pound vertical cryogenic cold box...

Nearly 4,000 members of the public attended the 20 August open house at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The "Rare Access” event included activities...

The public is invited to get behind the scenes at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams during an open house scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, 20 August...

Here is additional information regarding the NSCL and FRIB tours at the "Rare Access" open house. The NSCL tour route has no stairs, whereas the FRIB tour includes about 60...

At the "Rare Access” event , attendees will have the opportunity to explore the fields of FRIB research with several hands-on activities and demonstrations. Demonstrations include: Control Systems: Test your...

Andrew Rogers from the University of Massachusetts Lowell has been named the first Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Visiting Scholar for Experimental Science. FRIB has initiated the FRIB Visiting...

Scientists from across the world came together at the ICNT/JINA-CEE workshop “r-Process Nucleosynthesis: Connecting FRIB with the Cosmos,” held in June 2016 at Michigan State University. The workshop was supported...

The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 28-30 June. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project progress since the last...

U.S. Representative Mike Bishop toured the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams today during a visit to Lansing. FRIB Conventional Facilities and Infrastructure Deputy Director Chris Thronson hosted Bishop during his...

The FRIB office tower addition is advancing quickly toward August 2016 completion. The building is now fully enclosed as glass curtain wall and exterior metal panels have been installed. The...

The Environmental, Safety and Health Management System (ESHMS) audit, which includes the Environmental Management System (ISO14001) and the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS18001), was completed 8 June. FRIB’s...

The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) met 24-26 May. The focus of the review was to assess the Accelerator Systems Division’s (ASD) progress in production of cryomodules, and early installation...

Construction at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams continues to advance rapidly, with civil construction still 10 weeks ahead of schedule. Marking a significant civil-construction milestone, the "topping out" occurred...

The first U.S. Department of Energy/National Science Foundation annual progress review of the Separator for Capture Reactions (SECAR) recoil separator project took place on 17-18 May. SECAR is being established...

FRIB hosted a special event on 9 May to recognize the MSU College of Engineering’s contributions to FRIB. The College of Engineering has collaborated with FRIB on materials quality testing...

As part of the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction, Michigan State University hosted a stand-down event on the FRIB construction site on...

The Quality Management System ISO9001 audit concluded 4 May. The certification body, National Sanitation Foundation-International Strategic Registrations (NSF-ISR), had no audit findings. This successful audit demonstrates the laboratory’s commitment to...

The Accelerator Systems Division (ASD) at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is carrying forward the schedule float created by the Conventional Facilities and Infrastructure Division (CFID). CFID completing...

A meeting marking the creation of the FRIB Theory Alliance (FRIB-TA) was held on 31 March and 1 April at Michigan State University. Approximately 100 participants attended, with many FRIB-TA...

A review of the FRIB Environmental, Safety and Health Advisory Committee (ESHAC) was held 16-17 March. The meeting focused on the approach for upcoming Accelerator Readiness Reviews (ARR) and configuration...

FRIB Homeland Security Officer Melissa Congleton was honored by the MSU Women’s Resource Center as one of the recipients of the 2016 Inspirational Woman of the Year Award today. This...

The FRIB Project has hit a significant milestone—50-percent completion. The FRIB Project began in 2008 when the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the project to MSU. In...

FRIB will primarily use a 400 kW beam to create rare isotopes. Once the beam hits the production target, only a part of it will undergo nuclear reactions. The majority...