Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
				Nov 21, 1994

Alcator C-MOD has resumed plasma operations. Runs during this week have
concentrated on conditioning discharges and equilibrium tuning. 

Power systems testing was completed on Wednesday, Nov 16. All supplies and
coils were run for 1 second flattops to verify diagnostic response.  Excellent
agreement between predicted and observed magnetics signals was obtained. 

Plasma operations began on Thursday, after about 12 hours of overnight
discharge cleaning (ECDC). Breakdown was achieved on the fourth attempt, and
successful current rise (to 200kA) was obtained on shot 10.  The discharges
were highly radiative, as is typical for initial operation after a long vent. 
Operation continued on Friday with more tokamak conditioning discharges.
Currents up to 500kA with pulse lengths above 0.7 seconds were obtained. 

In order to further clean up the machine, ECDC was run continuously over the
weekend, for a total of about 60 hours. 

On Monday, running resumed and all indications were that the machine
conditioning was improved. Standard tokamak discharges with currents up to
765kA and durations greater than 1.3 seconds were obtained. 

Diagnostics continue to be brought on-line. The ECE grating polychromator is
operational. The HIREX high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy diagnostic is also
running and measuring ion temperature. The TCI interferometer is also
operational. 

Owing to an editing error, the number of C_MOD papers presented at the APS
meeting was given incorrectly in last week's report. The correct number of
C-MOD papers was forty-four.