NIST Unveils New Laboratory Building for Improved National Radiation Measurements

Six people standing in front of a large tan building cutting a blue ribbon.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday to unveil a new laboratory building that substantially enhances NIST’s capabilities for radiation measurements critical to the health care, food processing, national security and other industries.

“Every type of health care in the U.S. that depends on radiation relies on the measurements done at the NIST Radiation Physics Building,” said Deputy Secretary of Commerce Karen Dunn Kelley. “Which is why it is so important that this addition is now complete and ready for use.”