[en] A method to extract energetic alphas from the edge of a tokamak plasma has been conceived and analyzed, and experiments to test the methods are being fabricated. The analysis addressed the region of alpha phase space sampled, the survivability of the foils required to implement the method, and the overall efficiency of the method. The experimental apparatus being fabricated include a detector head for a proof-of-concept test on PLT and a calibration-test stand as a support experiment for the PLT test and to support possible subsequent experiments on TFTR. A fast pulse height analysis data acquisition system was fabricated and tested and is ready for use in the experiments discussed above