A look inside IU's Midwest Proton Radiation Institute facility

Since its construction began in 1939, the IU Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) has been involved in the latest scientific discoveries and developments in nuclear physics. From the role it played as a research base for University of Chicago scientists who were creating a nuclear reactor--work which would lead directly to the Manhattan Project--to today's focus on proton beam therapy as a cancer treatment, the IUCF has explored the possibilities.

The pictures below lend a look inside the somewhat mysterious building on the north edge of IU Bloomington's campus as it undergoes its latest metamorphosis.

Will Thomas (foreground), Dave Cole and Tommy Fry