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Accelerating Capital: Growing the Greater Lansing Region and Investment through Rare Isotopes
- Author(s):
- Parrisa Brown, Cal Coplai, Kyle Haller, David Kort, Seungjae Lee, Charisma Thapa
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- MSU EDA University Center: Regional Economic Innovation
- Subject(s):
- Economic development, Sustainable development, Rural development, Community development, Urban, Michigan--Lansing, Sustainable urban development, United States. Economic Development Administration, Infrastructure (Economics)
- Item Type:
- Report
- Tag(s):
- Economic, Development, Michigan, REI, equity, Economic development, innovation, EDA, capital
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/dy5h-9p05
- Abstract:
- This project involved an assessment of economic/entrepreneurial/ community impacts and opportunities created by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at MSU, and collected data and reported on existing particle accelerator facilities to recommend potential strategies and best practices to incorporate. The Accelerating Capital Project was conducted in an effort to assess conditions and recommend strategies surrounding the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) particle accelerator facility on Michigan State University's campus. Construction started in 2014 and is scheduled to be completed in 2022. The facility will be instrumental in discovering properties of rare isotopes in order to better understand the physics of nuclei, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society. The MSU faculty and student team, with help from Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP), aimed to compare elements surrounding the FRIB to successful existing facilities to strategize for a sustainable facility that will benefit the local community and economy. They chose four facilities that were similar in either size or scope upon which to conduct research. Those four are the TRIUMF Facility in Vancouver, Canada, the Jefferson Lab in Newport, Virginia, Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NCSL) on Michigan State's Campus.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 months ago
- License:
- Attribution
frib2014_report.pdf