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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Colleagues –<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Following the recent power outage, teams have been working diligently to return TRIUMF to regular operations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><a name="_Hlk528151998"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Repair work on the damaged conduit has been completed and new cables are being pulled later this week. Cryoplant
repairs have been successfully completed. Preliminary testing of the cyclotron RF system has been conducted successfully. Further testing will be done when the vacuum reaches nominal value. Beamlines are being turned on.<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Barring any other issues, we are on track to have the 520 MeV cyclotron back online mid-to-late Thursday, October 25th. Machine tuning will
follow. Changes to the beam schedule have already been made and communicated to ISAC users.
<span style="color:black">Radioactive beam to ISAC will be available for experiments starting Friday, October 26th, and ISAC II beam is expected to be available on Friday, November 9th. We will keep ISAC Users posted of any further updates to beam schedules.
Should you have any questions on beam scheduling, please contact Chris Ruiz at </span>
</span></span><a href="mailto:ruiz@triumf.ca"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ruiz@triumf.ca</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I want to thank everyone for their help in restoring regular operations. Moreover, I want to thank the TRIUMF and user communities
for your understanding and patience during this unexpected downtime.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sent on behalf of<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Reiner Kruecken<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">TRIUMF Deputy Director, Research</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk527817277"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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