Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron

{{Short description|Defunct particle accelerator in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada}}

Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron (TASCC) was a Canadian particle accelerator 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 MeV per nucleon.{{cite web|url=http://www.cns-snc.ca/history/fifty_years/hanna.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331061410/http://www.cns-snc.ca/history/fifty_years/hanna.html|archive-date=2008-03-31|title=50 Years of Nuclear Fission in Review - Fission and Physics in Canada|first=Geoff|last=Hanna|publisher=Canadian Nuclear Society}} The TASCC facility was decommissioned beginning in 1996.[http://www.cap.ca/pic/Archives/54.5(1998)/torgerson.html Letter to the Editor from D.F. (David) Torgerson]