NSTX Team Meeting

March 21, 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: 1:30 ~ 3:00, Place LSB-318, March 21, 2007

• General Items

• Outage updates

• Research Plan

NSTX Team Meeting Agenda

• ES&H Issues (J. Levine)

• The NSTX Project has earned the Commissioner's Continued Excellence Award from the State of New Jersey for performance in 2006 for working 6 consecutive years without an away from work lost time injury/illness case. (J. Levine)

• Lockout/Tagout Training (Needed for the NTC access)

• Hazard Awareness Training (W. Slavin)

• File Proper Visitor Forms (J. Savino)

Safely, Safely, Safely

Plasma Operation To Start on March 27!

FY 2009 OFES Budget Planning MeetingHilton Gaithersburg , 620 Perry Parkway, March 13-

14, 2007

Tuesday, March 138:30 a.m. Opening Comments R. Fonck8:45 a.m. ITER Project and USIPO Activities J.Hoy/N. Sauthoff10:05 a.m. Overview of BPO J. Van Dam10:20 a.m. ITER Design Review (Physics) R. Hawryluk11:00 a.m. DIII-D: Introduction D. Hill11:10 a.m. DIII-D Research Plans M. Wade11:35 a.m. University Research on DIII-D G. McKee11:50 a.m. DIII-D Program, Budget, Schedules T. Taylor12:05 p.m. GA Institutional Issues R.Stambaugh1:25 p.m. C-Mod Research Plans and Budget E.Marmar1:55 p.m. MIT Institutional Issues M. Porkolab2:15 p.m. Spherical Tori: National ST Program M. Peng2:35 p.m. NSTX Research Results and Plans D. Gates2.55 p.m. NSTX Facility and Budget Plans M. Ono3:35 p.m. National Compact Stellarator Program M. Zarnstorff 4:00 p.m. NCSX Status H. Neilson4.20 p.m. PPPL Institutional Issues R. Hawryluk

FY 2009 OFES Budget Planning MeetingHilton Gaithersburg , 620 Perry Parkway, March 13-

14, 2007

4:40 p.m. ICC Issues/Challenges G. Wurden5:10 p.m. MST Plans/Institutional Issues S. Prager

Wednesday, March 148:30 a.m. Enabling R&D Issues/Challenges/Plans S. Milora9:40 a.m. Plasma Science Centers

Multiscale Plasma Dynamics W. Dorland10:00 a.m. Extreme States of Matter and Fast Ign R. Betti10:45 a.m. HEDP: Issues/Challenges/Plans G. Logan11:15 a.m. IFE: Issues/Challenges/Plans M. Campbell12:55 p.m. International Collaboration Update E. Oktay1:25 p.m. Theory Program Overview C. Bolton1:40 p.m. Theory Issues/Plans P. Catto2:25 p.m. Update on SciDAC J. Mandrekas

Productive Collaborative Research Team

PPPL US Collab

Foreign

Research Staff 50 85* 35

Post Doctoral Staff

0 6 0

Graduate Students**

8 7 7

Undergrad Students

6

NSTX Research Team*

• Includes those funded directly by theory and VLT** Thirteen Ph.D. Thesis students

FY 06 was a very productive year:

• 70 Refereed Journal Paper Publications • 52 invited papers at major [APS, IAEA, EPS] and topical meetings (HTPD, RF, PSI) • 6 PRLs on four ITER-relevant key research topics (RWM, Momentum transport, Multi-energetic particle modes, MHD driven fast particle transport) + CTF-relevant solenoid-free start-up with CHI• 34 post-docs and students

ASIPP-PPPL Collaborations Underway

• Members of ASIPP (Drs. Jiangang Li, Baonian Wan, Shijun Du) visited PPPL in last week to work on the PPPL-ASIPP collaboration activities

• MOU between PPPL and ASIPP on Plasma Physics and Magnetic Confinement Fusion is in place:- Joint team participates in experiments on NSTX, EAST, and NCSX- PPPL to assist ASIPP on diagnostic systems and make available

some TFTR diagnostic components- PPPL to assist ASIPP on ICRF & LHCD system designs for EAST- PPPL to assist ASIPP on theoretical tools such as TRANSP and

Gyrokinetic simulations. - ASIPP to review the design, conduct R&D, manufacture and test

the NSTX spare OH solenoid coil

• Dennis Mueller visited the EAST tokamak in China and it achieved first plasma in September 2006 and shaped plasma ~ 1.8 in January 2007. Dennis Mueller (PPPL) and Gary Jackson (GA, DIII-D) lent their operational experience, in support of the rapid progress in going from engineering tests of coil systems to producing plasmas.

~ 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

Six Mini-workshops held for the next NSTX Five Year Plan

Lead Mini-Workshop Date

Boundary R. Maingi Feb. 12, 9:00 ~ 5:00 pm

Waves & Particles

G. Taylor Feb. 13, 9:00 ~ noon

Integration J. Menard Feb. 16, 1:00 ~ 5:00 pm

T&T S. Kaye Feb. 19, 1:00 ~ 5:00 pm

MHD S. Sabbagh Feb. 23, 1:00 ~ 5:00 pm

Adv, Diagnostics

B. Stratton Feb. 27, 1:00 ~ 5:00 pm

*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)• We thank your contributions to this important planning process.

• This is only the first step for the long range planning process which will continue to the spring of 2008. If you have any good ideas and suggestions, please let the respective science topical leaders know.

• For more information:nstx.pppl.gov/DragNDrop/Five%20Year%20Plan%20(FY09-13)