Michigan State University (MSU) physicists are busy getting ready for the $550 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) physics research site it was awarded in December.
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“We’ve gone through a range of emotions,” Cyclotron spokesperson Geoff Koch said. “We were stunned at first, then elation and now realizing all the work that’s ahead. We have the tiger by the tail now and now we’ve got to deliver the project and build the machine.”
FRIB is a $550-million project funded by the Department of Energy that will make MSU a worldwide leader in nuclear physics. Since July 2008, the university has campaigned for the project, competing against the federally-funded Argonne National Laboratory, located in Illinois.
With construction scheduled to start in 2013, the project is expected to bring $1 billion in economic growth for Michigan through the creation of jobs and research.
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