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From WOLFE@CMOD2.PFC.MIT.EDU Mon Jul 10 15:52:32 1995
From: WOLFE@CMOD2.PFC.MIT.EDU
Organization: MIT
Subject: Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights

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 hardwareto
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.