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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.

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