Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
					March 10, 1994

Progress continues toward readying the tokamak for pump-down. 

Six out of twenty inner divertor modules have now been installed. The
remaining modules will be put in place consistent with RF and diagnostic
installation.  The installation of these modules together with the outer
divertor current shunts will complete the first wall repair.  The shunts are
now at the end of their bake cycle.  Installation of in-vessel diagnostics
continues.  The flush mount probes and current shunts were debugged, and a new
divertor bolometer was installed and aligned.

The polishing and cleaning of A-port flange is now complete, and the cowling
has been welded into place.  Assembly of the reflectometer waveguides, horns,
and windows is proceeding.

The visible bremsstrahlung fluctuation diagnostic and 3D Li pellet tracker
have been aligned. 

The horizontal port heater boxes are now being installed on the igloo and
re-connected.  In addition, heater boxes associated with the vertical ports
are being installed where possible. Installation and debugging of the cryo
control wiring and software continues.

The feedthroughs and both current straps of the D-port dipole ICRF antenna have
been installed in the machine. The full RF protection limiter (one of two
limiters located approximately 180 degrees toroidally from the antennas, is
also in place. The feedthroughs for the second dipole antenna are now on the
test stand and under vacuum, ready for high voltage testing. 

Bob Granetz and Martin Greenwald are attending the Transport Task Force
meeting in Dallas this week. Tom Fredian is at TCV in Lausanne (Suisse) for a
short stay in connection with our on-going collaboration in the area of
Control and Data Acquisition. 

Steve Fulghum and Pete Rossler of Science Research Laboratory visited on
Monday to try a test fitup of the detector system for the fluctuation
diagnostic they will be installing in conjunction with an SBIR project. 

An informal meeting was held at MIT to discuss possible collaboration
activities between Sandia and C-MOD in support of ITER needs. Attendees
included Ken Wilson and Dean Buchenauer (SNLL), Richard Nygren (SNLA), 
Bruce Lipschultz, Brian LaBombard, and Garry McCracken (Alcator), and 
Marv Cohen and Don Priester of DoE. Likely topics for collaboration that were
identified included surface temperature measurements, neutral and momentum
loss measurements aimed at understanding the neutral loss channel, and surface
erosion measurements. Further communications to pin down scope and schedule
will be held over the next several weeks.