Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
				March 3, 1994

The vacuum bakeout of the inner divertor nose tiles went well and installation
of the tiles onto the modules has begun.  Two out of twenty of these modules
have been installed and several more are in various stages of assembly.
Eighteen out of twenty upper ceiling modules and all twenty floor modules have
now been installed. Re-installation of in-vessel instrumentation continues. 
Thermocouple wires are now being run back to their feedthroughs with repairs
made as needed.  Periscope brackets have been re-installed, and gas puff tubes
continue to be spot welded into place.

TORVAC is again operational and the pumping station is pumped down up to the
gate valves. The sealing surface of the new A-port flange has been polished
and a rough clean-up performed.  The flange is now ready for installation of
the stainless steel cowl, which allows the cryostat to be sealed around the
flange.  Components needed to install the reflectometer horns and waveguides
onto A-port are now being cleaned and readied for a test fit-up.

The cryostat pressure test has now been performed. Two leaks were discovered
and sealed.  The cryostat will now be purged continuously for approximately 24
hours in preparation for Hi-Pot and ringing tests of the magnet coils. Wiring
of LN2/GN2 control valves and transducers continues.  Tests of heaters in the
lower third of the machine  have been performed, and the heater control system
is now back in operation.  The remaining heater and thermocouple connections
will be added when the igloo is back in position.

The boron carbide coated antenna components which were received last week have
now been vacuum baked. The voltage testing of the feedthroughs and bellows for
the D-port ICRF antenna has been completed. Installation of the antenna
protection limiters has begun; half of the "full" limiter, located between A
and B ports, has been installed. 

Dr. Garry McCracken attended the ITER divertor workshop in Garching last week,
where he presented C-MOD experimental results from the 1993 campaign, and
discussed plans for future work.