Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron (TASCC) was a Canadian

particle accelerator A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies, and to contain them in well-defined beams. Large accelerators are used for fundamental research in particle ...

facility constructed at Chalk River Laboratories on October 3, 1986. TASCC was the world's first Tandem Accelerator and able to accelerate most elements to 10

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. The TASCC facility was decommissioned beginning in 1996.Letter to the Editor from D.F. (David) Torgerson
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