Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
				Oct 22, 1996


	The disassembly of Alcator C-Mod is nearing completion.  The machine
has been moved to the assembly stand where the lower TF arms, EF coil
set, and OH2L coax can be inspected.  The OH2U coax has been removed and
numerous tests are being performed including force/deflection, resistance,
x-ray, pressure sensitive film measurements of contact area, and 2d mapping
of the feltmetal thicknesses.  Visually, the coax, feltmetal, and coil
terminals all appear to be in "as installed" condition.  Thermal and
electromechanical modeling of the coax continues.
	Work on the DNB beamline at Texas is now complete and shipping
of the beamline components has begun.  Plans are being made here at
MIT to begin installation of both drive power and water cooling to the
various DNB supplies.
	Work continues on the new RF transmitters. The #3 and #4 transmitter
driver cabinets have been disassembled.  Modifications are required to
the cabinets to allow installation of the new cavities to proceed.  Phase
shifters and stub tuners for the new transmitters have been mounted.
Installation of the water cooling system for the new dummyload has begun.
Numerous pc boards for the new transmitters are now being fabricated in our
electronics shop including phase balance, fault interrupt, voltage limit,
and arc detector boards.
	Power system work also continues.  An inspection of the TF bus
indicated some wear had taken place at an interphase transformer connection.
This connection, and the three other connections like it, have been replated
and reinforced.  Maintenance of the 13.8kV sub station breakers is now
complete.
	A new FTP site has been created for use by our collaborators.
A rather complete set of machine drawings is now available in DWG and DXF
format.  Please send mail to irby@pfc.mit.edu if you want to know more
about this site.
	Dr. Sakasai (JAERI) visited last week to discuss laser-blowoff
measurements and helium transport results from the divertor and
the core.  S. Ide (JAERI) visited to discuss the ACCOME code (current
drive/MHD equilibrium code) modeling of JT-60U LHCD experiments.  
C. Gormezano (JET) met with C-Mod scientists and gave a talk on RF
experiments on JET.  S. Coda (MIT/DIII-D) came to discuss a phase contrast
imaging system for C-Mod.  Dr. Yasunori Kawano from JT60U visited last
week to discuss interferometry.
	Jim Terry attended the Lithium Wall-Conditioning Workshop in
Princeton, and presented a paper detailing the C-Mod experience with
this technique.
 	We are very pleased to announce that Steve Wukitch started work last
week as a new experimental physicist in the RF group.  He comes to MIT from
ASDEX.