The IASA racetrack microtron facility, a progress report

The Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA) is pursuing research and facilitates postgraduate studies in traditional and cross-disciplinary areas where accelerators play an important role. The first major facility of IASA, now under construction, is a 242 MeV two-stage CW cascade microtron. During the ongoing period of civil construction a staging area has been set up for the installation of the injector and the testing of several key subsystems. A progress report on this project is presented here.