NSTX Team Meeting

1. Supported by NSTX Team Meeting Columbia U Comp-X GA INEL JHU LANL LLNL Lodestar MIT Nova Photonics NYU ORNL PPPL PSI SNL UC Davis UC Irvine UCLA UCSD U Maryland U New Mexico U Wash U Wisc UKAEA Fusion Hiroshima U HIST Kyushu Tokai U Niigata U Tsukuba U U Tokyo Ioffe Inst TRINITI KBSI KAIST ENEA Frascati Nov. 25, 2003

2. NSTX Team Meeting Agenda • 10:30 Departmental Items - M. Ono Comments on FPA meeting (M. Peng/M.Ono) • 11:00 Update TF activities and preparation toward operation - A. von Halle • 11:15 Experimental Research Operations - M. Bell • 11:30 Physics Analysis Update - C. K. Phillips • 11:40 Run Coordination - S. Kaye • 11:45 Program - M. Peng • 12:00 Adjourn

3. Departmental Items • The United Way Campaign is underway. Please be generous! • Foreign visitor form: please file when you learned a foreign visitor is coming. Otherwise the visitor will not be permitted to enter the site. Joanne Savino can help. • Safely, safely, safely. We are doing well but there is a room for improvements. • A cracked window incident. Need to strengthen procedures and follow existing rules ( identified in the lesson learned findings). NSTX Work Planning/Work Permit, I encourage you to review procedure OP-AD-39, Conduct of Operations, which is applicable to anyone working on NSTX. (M. Williams) • The TF work is progressing well. The plasma start date could be as early as the later part of January. Please be prepared. We will keep you informed through 8:30 meeting and weekly updates

4. Budget is being finalized. • Fusion (Energy and Water) bill is now waiting for the President signature! The CR is now schedule to end by January 31, 2004. • The budget if signed partially restores toward the NSTX presidential budget level. The exact amount to be determined in the near future. - Fix the TF and get back to operation - the highest priority - Run 21 weeks - the next highest priority (very very high!) - Then perform key high priority upgrades as resource permitted • Some key upgrades aiming to be available during this run: RWM system - need final confirmation of the plan and FDR. Need to decide if and when to place SPA order CHI capacitor bank - FDR planned in the near future

5. Fusion Power Associates Meeting Many good overview presentations - Available on the FIRE website • Ray Orbach of DOE and John Willis of OFES commented that exciting period is ahead for fusion. Fusion had four facilities listed in the DOE’s Facilities for the Future of Science: • ITER - #1 (Near-term priorities) • Next-Step Spherical Torus - Tie for #18 (Mid-term priorities) • Fusion Contingency - Tie for #23 (Far-term priorities) • Integrated Beam Experiment - Tie for #23 (Far-term priorities) It looks like the ST program has a good niche in the DOE plan. • Ray Orbach mentioned that Fusion Contingency is essentially the fusion material testing facility. They will have a meeting of the experts next year to see the computer simulation can model the material neutron damage effect. If so, there is a good case for going directly to CTF saving $800 M of IFMIF. • Some significant differences in point of views among key players: DOE, While House (OSTP, OMB) and the Congress