A daily shift log was kept in a standard three-ring binder of experiments and important events in the operation of the Tandem And SuperConducting Cyclotron (TASCC) facility. It was announced by AECL in 1996 that funding for the Nuclear Physics program at CRNL would end effective 30 June 1997. The program was unable to secure sufficient funding from other government departments and as a result TASCC was shut down. This last shift log from 1997 records the final activities. In particular it records that the final beam and turn-off of the accelerator occurred at 20:00 14 February 1997. The final entry for that day reads ”At 20:00 Valentine’s Day 1997 the last beam from the tandem was ended thus completing the massacre of the TASCC facility. This ended 50 years of nuclear science leadership in the world and ironically occurred on the day the government awarded 100s of millions of new dollars for scientific infrastructure in Canada! (Signature unknown). The facility was then dismantled and sold for scrap.
