Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
				Feb. 24, 1994

Progress is continuing toward readying the machine for the next operating
campaign. 

Fifteen out of twenty ceiling and eighteen out of twenty floor tile modules
have now been installed.  Tiles needed to complete the inner divertor nose
piece modules are now being cleaned in preparation for vacuum baking.  The
installation of these modules will effectively complete the first-wall repair,
and the installation of RF and diagnostic components can then continue at a
more rapid pace.

Welding and leak checking of the A-port horizontal flange was completed
and the flange was sent out for grinding. It is now again in-house.  Tubing,
flanges, and flexible conduits needed for in-vessel diagnostics are now in
various stages of cleaning, vacuum baking, leak checking, and installation.

With the installation of the cryostat top cover, the cryostat is now complete. 
The LN2 sump has been sealed and the goose-neck pipe connecting the cryostat
to the sump has been installed.  The cryostat has been temporarily sealed
around A-port horizontal so that GN2 pressure tests can be made and any major
cryostat leaks found before LN2 is used. Thermocouple and heater connections
to the lower third of the machine have been re-installed and the
checkout of the heater system can now begin.

The antenna protection tiles and Faraday shield pieces which were boron
carbide coated in France have cleared U.S. Customs and are now in-house. The
backplate for the D-port dipole antenna has been installed in the machine. 

Roger Richards from ORNL is here this week continuing work on the ion tail
Thomson scattering diagnostic.  He will be supervising installation of his
vacuum gate valves.