# Presentation: 474355

## NSTX Team Meeting

**February 12, 2008**

***College W&M***
***Colorado Sch Mines***
***Columbia U***
***Comp-X***
***General Atomics***
***INEL***
***Johns Hopkins U***
***LANL***
***LLNL***
***Lodestar***
***MIT***
***Nova Photonics***
***New York U***
***Old Dominion U***
***ORNL***
***PPPL***
***PSI***
***Princeton U***
***SNL***
***Think Tank, Inc.***
***UC Davis***
***UC Irvine***
***UCLA***
***UCSD***
***U Colorado***
***U Maryland***
***U Rochester***
***U Washington***
***U Wisconsin***

***Culham Sci Ctr***
***U St. Andrews***
***York U***
***Chubu U***
***Fukui U***
***Hiroshima U***
***Hyogo U***
***Kyoto U***
***Kyushu U***
***Kyushu Tokai U***
***NIFS***
***Niigata U***
***U Tokyo***
***JAERI***
***Hebrew U***
***Ioffe Inst***
***RRC Kurchatov Inst***
***TRINITI***
***KBSI***
***KAIST***
***ASIPP***
***ENEA, Frascati***
***CEA, Cadarache***
***IPP, J******ü******lich***
***IPP, Garching***
***ASCR, Czech Rep***

## NSTX Team Meeting Agenda

**Time: 1:00 ~ 2:30, Place LSB-318, February 7, 2008**
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**• ****General Items (10 minutes)**
**• ****Outage Updates / Preparation toward FY 08 operations ( 35 minutes)**
**• ****NSTX PAC and BP Meeting (45 minutes)**

**NSTX Team Meeting Agenda**

## Safely, Safely, Safely

**• ****ES&H Issues (J. Levine)**
**• ****Looking at hazards - Job Hazard Analysis, Personal Protection Equipments. ****Ergonomics**** (A. von Halle, J. Levine)**
**• ****Newly updated Lockout / Tagout Training (Needed for the NTC access)  Please take the training at your first opportunity.**
**• ****Hazard Awareness Training (W. Slavin)**
**• ****Please File Proper Visitor Forms (J. Savino)**
**• ****DOE FY 2007 PPPL Performance Summary: Safety needs improvement.  Eight recordable cases and 3 DART cases.  The goals - 2 TRC case and 1 DART case.**
** ****Left wrist laceration & right hand contusion due to impact of machine handle that came off spindle (DART Case)**
** ****Laceration of left index finger when coil fixture hinge moved unexpectedly**
** ****Dust in left eye during overhead work**
** ****Laceration of right index and middle fingers when screwdriver slipped while removing screw from clamp**
** ****Shoulder pain from a non-specific case (DART case) **

**Safely, Safely, Safely**

## Safety Items Relevant for NSTX

**• ****Matrix Training Table (J. Savino) coordinating with Experimental Department**
**• ****How can we make sure we reach all members?  Collaborators are PPPL hosts.  Please make sure that the students are included.**
**• ****Management Safety Walkthroughs - Involving more individuals (PS&T, HR) **
**House keeping - dispose of things not needed- proper place for things needed**
**• ****Overseas travel safety tips (ITER)**

**Safety Items Relevant for NSTX**

## Budget Related Items

**• ****FY 07 - ****DOE FY 2007 PPPL Performance Summary commended NSTX for a very scientifically and operationally productive year!**
**• ****FY 08 - Budget enhancement is a positive news**
**- Run Weeks will increase from 11 to 15 (Run to June and July as contingency)**
**- Enable to strongly support implementation of BES and MSE-LIF (Innovative Diagnostic Initiatives)**
**- Participate in ITER design and ITPA activities**
**• ****FY 09 - Very tight budget for operations**
** ****Research budget (both PPPL and collaborations) is comparable to the FY 09 FWP base request level**
** ****Facility Operations budget reduced by $ 1.5 M form the FY 09 FWP base request level**
** ****Operate 11 run weeks**
** ****Minimal facility and upgrade diagnostics budget - take advantage of relatively healthy FY 08 facility and diagnostic upgrades activities**
**• ****FY 10 - Prepare "Base ~ 11 run weeks", "10% reduction" "15 run weeks" and "Full Utilization" plans.  Budget meeting on March 11 - 12.**

**Budget Related Items**