A retirement memento given to Bill Taylor on his retirement from Chalk River Laboratories in 1991. One of the major programs Bill worked on during his long career was the design, development, testing and qualification of numerous containers used for the transport of radioactive materials. Included in this effort was the development of a facility at Chalk River for drop and fire-testing of these containers to confirm that they met international standards. The gift consists of a 10 cm long “barrel” dropped onto a 14 cm square wooden base. (In real life the base the barrel was dropped on to was a thick steel plate.) The checkered background is a replica of the grid painted on the background of the Drop Facility to aid measurements. The plaque reads “Bill Taylor; July 4th, 1961 – September 27th 1991”. The bottom of the wooden base exhibits the signatures of 25 of Bill’s work colleagues -mostly from the Plant Design Division where Bill worked.
