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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The construction of a new national facility for nuclear science at Michigan State University continues with a key addition.
The East Lansing university says one of project's largest concrete placements is scheduled to start Monday morning if weather permits. The concrete is being poured into the underground tunnel that will serve as the heart of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
The work will create the floor where the facility's heavy ion beam will hit a target and create the rare isotopes. The university says the pouring of 2,700 cubic yards of concrete is expected to take more than 30 hours.
The $730 million research facility known as FRIB is funded by the university, state and Energy Department. Michigan State won a national competition to host the project in 2008.
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