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Yale will play a role in several initiatives highlighted in the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee’s long-range plan for nuclear physics research.

Texas A&M is one of 21 sites selected to host a hybrid rollout event for a roadmap to advance the nation’s nuclear science research programs during the next decade.

<p>The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is poised to strengthen its programs and service to the United States over the next decade if national recommendations of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, or NSAC, are enacted.</p>

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams was designed to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the formation of the elements, the structure of matter, how stars and born and how they die. It took 13 years to design and build and cost $730 million.