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From WOLFE@CMOD2.PFC.MIT.EDU Mon Aug 28 14:16:04 1995
From: WOLFE@CMOD2.PFC.MIT.EDU
Organization: MIT
Subject: Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights

Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
August 28, 1995

The scheduled upgrade and maintenance interval on Alcator C-MOD continued last
week. Good progress was made toward readying the machine for the next
operating period.

The gas handling cabinet for the new Boronization system has arrived from the
vendor and is being installed in the C-MOD cell.

All twenty inner divertor modules are now ready for installation. Eleven out
of twenty of the old upper gusset protection modules have been removed from
the machine and fitted with the new tiles and are now being re-installed.

The West half of the igloo cover is now back in place. Diagnostic systems
mounted to this cover, including the upper TCI and Thomson scattering optics,
can now be reinstalled.

The TCI CO2 laser is now reinstalled on its optical table. The sixth Thomson
Scattering spectrometer has now been calibrated and installed in the cell.

Martin Greenwald is visiting the TCV Group in Lausanne, Switzerland, for
a collaboration on their Confinement Studies Program. Earl Marmar is
participating in the ITER Diagnostics Workshop and Expert Group Meeting in
Varenna, Italy.

Last week Rejean Boivin visited Los Alamos to make arrangements for a
collaboration involving use at C-MOD of the Time-of_Flight (TOF) Neutral
Spectrometer previously used on ZT-40 and CTX.