Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
				Sept. 11, 1995

ALcator C-MOD is in a scheduled maintenance and upgrade period. Progress
toward readying the machine for the fall operating campaign is continuing.

The optics head for the edge Thomson scattering system has been repaired and
is now leak-tight. The head is undergoing temperature cycling to test the
integrity of the new welds prior to installation in the vessel. 

Work on the divertor hardware is proceeding. Sixteen of twenty lower inner
divertor modules have been refurbished and installed in the machine. Eighteen
of twenty upper inner divertor modules have been refurbished; installation of
these modules will begin this week. 

Work on the divertor probe arrays is proceeding. All of the triax cables
associated with these probes were removed from the machine to facilitate
repair work. There are two sets of these cables, consisting of 18 cables for
the inner divertor probes and 30 cables for the outer divertor probes.
Adjustments and repairs to the inner cable set and interface boxes are
complete, including replacement of three triax cables. Work on the outer cable
set and boxes is proceeding. 

Work on the new EF4 supply is proceeding. The gate drive boards have been
calibrated and are operating. New sin/cosine boards have been received from
the vendor. Wiring between the control cabinet and supply is proceeding. 

The time-of-flight low energy neutral particle analyzer has arrived from Los
Alamos. This instrument is part of a LANL-Alcator C-MOD collaboration, and
will be used to investigate neutrals in the plasma edge and SOL. 

Ian Hutchinson attended the Fusion Power Associates meeting in Montreal, where
he presented a paper on recent C-MOD results.