Operation of the TR30 “industrial” cyclotron

The 30 MeV TR30 cyclotron installed for Nordion has been in operation for two years. The use of industrial process controllers, the external H^- ion source and cryogenic pumping has made this machine easy to operate and reliable with extracted beams of 500 μA. The strong focusing properties of the magnet and low internal beam losses have reduced residual radiation fields so that there is negligible exposure to the operators during machine servicing. The main characteristics and features of the machine leading to a 98% accelerator availability are discussed in this paper. As well as this the extensions to the cyclotron allowing the acceleration of deuterons to 15 MeV are outlined