nstx team meeting

NSTX Team Meeting

February 7, 2007

Supported byOffice ofScience

College W&MColorado Sch MinesColumbia UComp-XGeneral AtomicsINELJohns Hopkins ULANLLLNLLodestarMITNova PhotonicsNew York UOld Dominion UORNLPPPLPSIPrinceton USNLThink Tank, Inc.UC DavisUC IrvineUCLAUCSDU ColoradoU MarylandU RochesterU WashingtonU Wisconsin

Culham Sci CtrU St. Andrews

York UChubu UFukui U

Hiroshima UHyogo UKyoto U

Kyushu UKyushu Tokai U

NIFSNiigata UU Tokyo

JAERIHebrew UIoffe Inst

RRC Kurchatov InstTRINITI

KBSIKAIST

ENEA, FrascatiCEA, Cadarache

IPP, JülichIPP, Garching

ASCR, Czech Rep

Time: 3:00 ~ 4:30, Place LSB-318, February 7, 2007

• General Items

• Outage updates

• Research Plan

NSTX Team Meeting Agenda

• ES&H (J. Levine)

• Lockout/Tagout Training (Needed for the NTC access) • Hazard Awareness Training (W. Slavin)

• File Proper Visitor Forms (J. Savino)

• Have a safe winter! It is very cold!

• If you need a place to exercise, PPPL Exercise Room is very nice!

Safely, Safely, Safely

FY 2007 Plasma Operation Schedule

We look forward to a productive 2007 run period to start on February 19, 2007

~ Dec. 20, 2006 Initial brainstorming on key research opportunities for the next 5 years

Jan. 15, 2007 Input from theory community for theory/modeling support

Feb. 2007 Mini-meetings to identify key research opportunities

March 2007 Develop preliminary upgrade cost estimates (manager’s estimates)

April 2007 Develop draft plan for key approaches in support of opportunities

April 2007 Develop and review outline for the draft plan

April 2007 Team meeting to review approaches and opportunities

July 2007 Initial draft plan ready

August 2007 Team discussion of the initial draft plan

Sept. 17-19, 2007

Tokamak Planning Workshop at MIT

Jan. 2008 NSTX PAC reviews the draft plan

Feb. 2008 Final draft plan ready for review by the team

April 1, 2008 Final plan (document) ready

1 wk before review Final presentation material ready

~ May 2008 (TBD)

New 5 Year Plan Review meeting

Draft Plan for Developing the Next 5 Year PlanFY2009 - 2013

Mini-workshops for the next NSTX Five Year Plan

Lead Mini-Workshop Date/Place

Boundary R. Maingi Feb. 12, 9:00 ~ 5:00/ LSB 318

Waves & Particles

G. Taylor Feb. 13, 9:00 ~ noon / LSB 318

MHD S. Sabbagh Feb. 15, 9:00 ~ 5:00 / LSB 318

T&T S. Kaye Feb. 15 1:00 ~ 4:00 pm / LSB 318

Integration J. Menard Feb. 15 1:00 ~ 5:00 pm / LSB 318

Adv, Diagnostics

B. Stratton Feb. 27, 1:00 ~ 4:00 pm / LSB 318

*Start-up is included in T&T and Integration

• In addition, there will be a mini-workshop on “Fusion Energy Sciences Development using ST" during March-April with details to be announced. (M. Peng)For more information:nstx.pppl.gov/DragNDrop/Five%20Year%20Plan%20(FY09-13)