Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
				Oct 8, 1996



	The 22 ton cylinder, one of the main structural support
components of Alcator C-MOD, has now been lifted out of the way, and a careful
inspection of the TF arms has begun. We will very shortly gain access
to the OH2U coax connections, and tests and inspections can begin on
these critical components as well.
	On Oct 2nd a DOE quarterly review of the Alcator C-MOD program,
focusing mostly on theory, was held.  C-MOD personnel and members of the
PFC theory group presented talks on divertor experiments and theory, core
confinement and transport, and advanced tokamak theory and modeling.  Plans
for the machine inspection and the status of the coax connection were
discussed.  Bill Rowan (U of Texas) and Dave Johnson (PPPL) presented
progress reports on the Texas and PPPL collaboration efforts on C-MOD.
Joel Hosea and Ken Young, both from PPPL, were also at the review as was
Roger Bengtson from Texas.  Rostom Dagazian represented DOE.
	Dave Johnson and Joe Bartolick, both of PPPL, did more invessel
alignment tests last week on the edge TS system. Following these tests,
the outer divertor cover plate was removed and the optical head was
extracted.  Fiber connections have been left intact so that testing can
continue outside the vessel.
	Bill Rowan and Roger Bengtson had detailed discussions with
scientists and engineers at MIT regarding their new diagnostics and the
diagnostic neutral beam (DNB).  We are moving ahead with the design of the
new horizontal flange which will provide access for the DNB, scanning probe,
ECE fluctuation diagnostic, and fibers associated with experiments which must
view the beam, i.e. Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (CHERS),
the Motional Stark Effect (MSE), and Beam Emission Spectroscopy (BES).
The initial layout in the power room of the DNB power supplies and test
stand was also discussed.