Welcome to FRIB

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will be a new National User Facility for nuclear science, funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), Office of Nuclear Physics and operated by Michigan State University (MSU). FRIB will cost approximately $550 million to establish and take about a decade for MSU to design and build.

 The new facility will provide intense beams of rare isotopes (that is, short-lived nuclei not normally found on Earth). FRIB will provide scientists critical information about the properties of these rare isotopes in order to better understand the origin of the elements and the evolution of the cosmos. Find out more about the facility.