From: IRBY@CMOD.PFC.MIT.EDU
Subject: Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Organization: M.I.T.


Alcator C-MOD Weekly Highlights
January 7, 1997



Reassembly of Alcator C-Mod has begun. After completion of the
OH partial flux loops over the weekend, the central column was
installed. Several days will be required to position the stack and
install and align the support hardware. The final TF arm is now complete
and ready for installation.
Work continues on the new transmitters as crowbar, primary power,
control, and water cooling systems evolve. Similar work is being done on the
DNB system. Work on self-powered crowbar circuits for the magnet power
supplies also moved forward.
We continue to expand and reorganize our FTP site. The
IMAGES subdirectory has now been further divided into subdirectories of
major machine components, machine assembly, diagnostics, and invessel survey
pictures. Links to description files of the images will be implemented.
Our FTP site is cmod.pfc.mit.edu (ftp://cmod.pfc.mit.edu/ from a browser).
A new WEB page will soon show automatically updated pictures of the cell
and control room.
The first Annual C-Mod Ideas Forum will be held at MIT this Thursday
and Friday, January 9-10. The agenda is available on the WEB at:

http://cmod2.pfc.mit.edu/~wolfe/cmod/forum_agenda.html

Mike McCarthy from PPPL visited to discuss modifications
to the C-Mod reflectometer. Raffi Nazikian (also PPPL) and Mike plan
to add much improved fluctuation measurement capability to the
current system, and to help to generally improve reliability.
In our last report the JHU spectrometer was falsely accused of
monitoring molybdenum levels in the divertor. It will in fact monitor the
radiation from a nitrogen resonance line during impurity puffing experiments.