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Reports the plan of nuclear physicists to build nuclear facilities in the U.S. Priority of build the Rare Isotope Accelerator facility; Endorsement of the strategic plan by the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee; Claim of the research on the importance of knowledge on isotopes.

The article reports on the move of panelists of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) to call on the U.S. Department of Energy to build two dedicated isotope-production facilities worth 65 million dollars to boost the isotope programme in the country. It mentions that committee members concluded that a group of isotopes that could be used in medical therapy is vastly needed. It affirms that the creation of two new facilities to contain the isotopes could be a big help.

The article discusses the approval by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) of a facility to generate rare isotopes in the fields of nuclear physics, astrophysics, and medical diagnostics. Michigan State University and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, competed to host the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). An brief overview of the facility's linear accelerator, which is the centerpiece of the FRIB, is presented.

The article reports on the success of the scientists in the U.S. in measuring the oxygen composition at the birth of the Solar System. This discovery accomplishes the top science priority of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Genesis probe which crashed into the Utah desert in 2004. According to Kevin McKeegan, a cosmochemist at the University of California, despite crashing, all the major objectives of Genesis will be met. The finding that the Sun is richer in oxygen-16 than the Earth contradicts the common knowledge that Earth has the same oxygen isotope composition as the Sun. The discovery also provides researchers a reference point for the oxygen composition at the origin of the Solar System.