Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
	                      November 27, 1995


	The Alcator C-MOD operating campaign will continue this week
	with ICRF conditioning runs, discharge development, and
	re-commissioning of the	hydrogen pellet injector.  Since we
	did not run last week, the time was devoted primarily to diagnostic
	calibration and commissioning, installation of new engineering systems,
	and machine cleanup.

	Preparation for boronization continues.  We now have all hardware
	in place, and are beginning PLC programming for this new system.
	The diborane (deuterated) has been ordered.  

	Hybrid control of the toroidal field is being implemented.  This
	addition will allow us to decouple machine startup from the
	flat-top toroidal field value.

	Calibrations of the main chamber and divertor pressure gauges
	verified the high compression ratios reported here last week.
	Compression ratios of up to 200 were in fact seen.

	New conductance limiting valves have been installed on the
	hydrogen pellet injector guide tubes.  Greater than a factor
	of ten improvement in gas load from the injection into the torus
	has been  observed.

	As much time as possible was devoted last week to an ECDC campaign
	needed to further clean up the machine for this week's run.
	In addition, we have begun to implement the access control 
	and machine interlocks required to run the ECDC system 24 hour
	per day, unattended.

	Laurie Porte from JET  visited last week.  On 11/14 several
	visitors from Japan including Tsugio Tokuta from the Ministry
	of Education, and Yasuyuki Matsumoto, Fumio Sumi, Tatsugo
	Kawamoto, and Kohnosuke Sato from NIFS visited.

	Yuichi Takase gave a seminar at Columbia University on 11/20
	on C-MOD results.  Bob Granetz and John Rice are in Japan this week.