ISAC, a new facility for exotic nuclei is under construction at TRIUMF. The radioactive ions will be produced by the ISOL technique with currents up to 100 mu A of 500 MeV protons impinging on target/ion source stations located in an underground vault. Following mass selection the beam is further transported with up to 60 keV energy to either a low energy area or to an RFQ followed by a DTL. The beam from the DTL will. have energy continuously variable from 0.15 to 1.5 MeV/u. A new 480-500 MeV proton beam has already been extracted from the TRIUMF cyclotron simultaneously with three existing variable energy beams. A 5000 m(2) building has now been completed. A 60 keV off-line source, part of the LEBT, a 11.67 MHz prebuncher, an 8 m long RFQ tank, and seven front-end modules of the split ring 4-rod RFQ system have been installed, aligned and are being commissioned. Beam tests through the RFQ front end will be under way at full cw power during summer 1998. Low energy (60 KeV) experiments using exotic ions are planned for year end. Other recent TRIUMF progress, including new records for the OPPIS high intensity polarized beams and highlights of cyclotron applications will also be summarized.
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