December 11, 2008 :: The Department of Energy
announces Michigan State
University has been selected to
design and establish the $550M
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
(FRIB).
Press Release.
Background.
Workshop on the Nation's Needs
for Isotopes: Present and Future
- Held August 5-7, 2008, Hilton
Hotel, Rockville, MD.
Final Workshop Report is now
available.
DOE/NSF Nuclear Science
Advisory Committee Meeting
was held on August 21, 2008,
at the Marriott Crystal Gateway
Hotel.
Minutes Posted.
The Organisation for Economic
Co-Operation and Development
(OECD) Global Science Forum
released in May 2008 its
Report of the Working Group on
Nuclear Physics.
Notice: The Department of Energy announces in its FY2009 Congressional Budget Request the intent to
transfer the DOE Isotope Program from the Office
of Nuclear Energy to the Office of Science’s
(SC) Office of Nuclear Physics (NP).
DOE Isotope Program Related
Information:
Advancing Nuclear Medicine
Though Innovation (Report in
Brief) &
Advancing Nuclear Medicine
Through Innovation (Full
Text).
(with permission
from
the National Academy of
Sciences, Courtesy of
the National Academies Press,
Washington, D.C.)
The
President's FY 2009 Budget
Proposal for Nuclear Physics
2007
NSAC Long Range Plan Report.
Low Resolution
or
High Resolution.
Report of the Interagency Task
Force on High Energy Density
Physics: August 2007
Journey Into the Heart of Matter,
the New
Nuclear Physics Brochure on Evolution
and Structure of Matter. |