This is going to be an awesome facility.

In addition to producing exotic nuclei that do not exist on Earth, the rare isotope facility might produce stable super heavy nuclei with perhaps exotic and novel nuclear and/or chemical properties.

Any exotic nuclei such as any stable super heavies might lead to novel nuclear physics applications including new fissionable radionuclides for various types of nuclear weapons and for various applications for the generation of nuclear energy in general.

Any behavior of nuclear matter below the level of quantum-chromo-dynamics might be probed such as any undiscovered nuclear forces and sub-structure to quarks.

Regarding the level of quantum-chromo-dynamics, the phenomenon under the umbrella of QCD envolve not only the top and bottom quarks which comprise the neutron and proton, but also the strange, charmed, top, and bottom quarks.

Perhaps facilities like the planned rare isotope accelerator can produce novel particle species and other matter such as strangelets, strange matter, or perhaps even exotic charmed quark, top quark, and bottom quark analogues.

A very bazaar form of particle or material would be a particle or material composed of all 6 of the known quarks or antimatter versions of such materials made of antiquarks.

The productions of stable glue-balls which are bound states of gluons that rely on the ability of gluons to adhere to each other, a phenomenon that is related to the non-linear aspects of QCD physics and gluon interactions, would be interesting to study in the context of the unexplored domains that will be opened up for experiment at the planned facility.

This facility and future improved facilities yet to be devised will, I am sure, result in the discovery of fundamentally new and interesting physics with many defense and other fields, related applications.