On Saturday, 11 December, at 5:46 p.m., the FRIB Project team produced and identified the first rare isotopes in FRIB, including selenium-84 from a krypton-86 beam.

This marks the demonstration of the last FRIB Key Performance Parameter required for project completion.

The achievement comes about 13 years after the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science selected Michigan State University to design and establish FRIB.

“We are privileged to build FRIB and proud to deliver on the trust placed in us by achieving another milestone toward FRIB Project completion,” said FRIB Laboratory Director Thomas Glasmacher. “This brings us another step closer to the start of user operation at FRIB next year, when scientists will start making discoveries at FRIB.”

On Saturday, 11 December, at 5:46 p.m., the FRIB Project team produced and identified the first rare isotopes in FRIB, including selenium-84 from a krypton-86 beam. The team was distributed to five separate control rooms for COVID-19 workplace safeguards.