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New Brunswick Laboratory
New Brunswick Laboratory BLDG 350
at Argonne National Laboratory
The New Brunswick Laboratory (NBL) is a Government-owned, Government-operated center of excellence in the measurement science of nuclear materials. NBL is the U.S. Government’s Nuclear Materials Measurements and Reference Materials Laboratory and the National Certifying Authority for nuclear reference materials and measurement calibration standards. As an internationally recognized Federal laboratory, NBL provides reference materials, measurement and interlaboratory measurement evaluation services, and technical expertise for evaluating measurement methods and safeguards measures in use at other facilities for a variety of Federal program sponsors and customers. NBL functions as a Network Laboratory for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
NBL is located, as a Federal enclave, on the site of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Chicago, Illinois. NBL is part of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Chicago Office.
U.S. Department of Energy
New Brunswick Laboratory
Building 350
9800 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439-4899
NBL: (630) 252-2442
CRM: (630) 252-2767
usdoe.nbl@ch.doe.gov
9500 Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439
Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy’s oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is the largest in size in the Midwest (approximately twice the area of the nearby Fermilab). The laboratory is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, which is composed of the University of Chicago and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. It is located on 1,700 acres (6.9 km²) in DuPage County, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Chicago, Illinois, on Interstate 55, completely encircled by Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve. When it was first established it was known as the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab), and it was previously located within Red Gate Woods. Early on the lab was part of the Manhattan Project, which built America’s first atomic bomb.
Photograph taken by Mike Kappel
www.mikekappel.com