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The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA has transitioned from being a construction project to user operations for nuclear science experiments. FRIB is designed for the production of rare-isotope beams from in-flight fragmentation and fission of primary beams of stable isotopes ranging from oxygen to uranium with energies up to 200 MeV/u and a planned beam power ramp up to 400 kW. This report gives an overview of the radiation transport work carried out to meet the unique challenges of a transitioning facility: support for commissioning and experiment work with beams during final construction; incremental hazard evaluation during beam-power ramp-up; and planning input for staging hazard mitigation strategies.
*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics and used resources of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility, under Award Number DE-SC0000661.