When Michigan State University won the contract to build the $614m Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) in December 2008, it had finished just the first stage of a long process scheduled to reach completion by 2020. Funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), FRIB will be a national user facility and form part of Michigan State’s existing National Super conducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). The centre will allow scientists to experiment with high-intensity beams of rare isotopes known at present to exist only in exploding supernovae.
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