Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
				July 10, 1995

The scheduled maintenance period continued on Alcator C-MOD this week. 

A design modification for the gusset protection tiles has been completed.
Quotes for the new tiles were received and the order placed with the selected
vendor. 

The LN2 sump has been opened up, inspected, cleaned, and reclosed. The LN2
cooling manifold has been opened and inspection begun on the TF cooling lines. 

Inspection of the buss connections is proceeding. No off-normal indications
have been noted so far. 

Seven out of ten halo current shunts have been removed. The shunts are being
replaced with rogowski loops. 

Thirty-seven of the forty inner divertor modules have been removed from the
machine. These are to be re-installed with improved hold-down hardware to
prevent  misalignment under disruption loading. Inner wall tile modules are
also being removed so that tile holddowns can be tightened and staked to
prevent loosening; about half of the affected modules are now out of the
machine. 

Joe Snipes is in Garching for a one-month visit to study H-modes at ASDEX
Upgrade. Yuichi Takase is visiting Tore Supra in Cadarache, France. He will
continue on to Garching to participate in an exchange with the ASDEX-U RF
Group. 

Alcator C-MOD staff and collaborators submitted forty-seven contributed papers
to the upcoming APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting in Louisville, KY. In
addition, three invited papers on C-MOD results will be presented by John
Goetz, Bob Granetz, and Joe Snipes.