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Welcome to the FRIB Website
at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics!

The US Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a cutting-edge research facility to advance understanding of rare nuclear isotopes and the evolution of the cosmos. The new facility—expected to take about a decade to design and build, and to cost an estimated $550 million—will provide research opportunities for an international community of approximately 1000 university and laboratory scientists, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students.

Unstable (or rare) isotopes play a critical role for some of the most compelling open questions in nuclear astrophysics. Many of these questions JINA has begun to address with the limited rare isotope production capabilities available today. With FRIB most of the nuclear physics in stellar explosions becomes finally accessible to experiments on earth. JINA plays an active role in shaping the scientific community that will ultimately take advantage of FRIB by bridging the gap between nuclear physics and astrophysics, by advancing the science, and by educating the future leaders of the field. JINA, in collaboration with other groups, is also developing new experimental equipment that will initially be used at existing rare isotope facilities but is intended to enable FRIB experiments in the future.



Breaking News

* Important news from the FRIB Users Organization

* Announcement: FRIB Equipment Workshop will be held in East Lansing, MI, Feb. 20-22, 2010. More Information

* The FRIB Users Organization Election was held in November 2009. The winners of the election of the FRIB Users Organization Executive Committee are: Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame), Michael Smith (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ingo Wiedenheover (Florida State University). Details

* A meeting of the FRIB Users Organization was held on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, as part of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting in Hawaii. More

* Michigan State University seeks to fill positions for research and technical staff in the area of Rare Isotope Beam research and development. Details

* Michigan State University and DOE have released a Description of the proposed Facility for Rare-Isotope Beams (FRIB)

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