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Many interesting radionuclides are produced as byproducts of routine operations at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. In the coming years, the facility will install a water filled beam dump that will accumulate many of the byproduct radionuclides in a form that can be readily "harvested" for use in other applications. In preparation, a direct connection between the beam dump and a new bank of hot cells has been established, and processes for extracting the radionuclides are being developed. So far it has been shown that, through simple trapping purifying techniques, radionuclides like $^{47}$Ca, $^{76}$Kr, and $^{62}$Zn can be obtained readily. As new beams are developed at FRIB, the spectrum of harvestable isotopes will widen, allowing access to otherwise difficult to create radionuclides for basic and applied science.
