{"id":138836,"date":"2022-04-30T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/long-awaited-accelerator-ready-to-explore-origins-of-elements"},"modified":"2022-04-30T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:02:47","slug":"long-awaited-accelerator-ready-to-explore-origins-of-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/long-awaited-accelerator-ready-to-explore-origins-of-elements","title":{"rendered":"Long-awaited accelerator ready to explore origins of elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-awaited-accelerator-ready-to-explore-origins-of-elements2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing had a budget of $730 million, most of it funded by the US Department of Energy, with a $94.5 million contribution from the state of Michigan. MSU contributed an additional $212 million in various ways, including the land. It replaces an earlier National Science Foundation accelerator, called the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), at the same site. Construction of FRIB started in 2014 and was completed late last year, \u201cfive months early and on budget\u201d, says nuclear physicist Bradley Sherrill, who is FRIB\u2019s science director.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, nuclear physicists had been pushing for a facility of its power \u2014 one that could produce rare isotopes orders of magnitude faster than is possible with the NSCL and similar accelerators worldwide. The first proposals for such a machine came in the late 1980s, and consensus was reached in the 1990s. \u201cThe community was adamant that we need to get a tool like this,\u201d says Witold Nazarewicz, a theoretical nuclear physicist and FRIB\u2019s chief scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing had a budget of $730 million, most of it funded by the US Department of Energy, with a $94.5 million contribution from the state of Michigan. MSU contributed an additional $212 million in various ways, including the land. It replaces [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}