# Presentation: 465796

## NSTX Program Update

**J. Menard, M. Ono**
*For the NSTX Research Team*

**NSTX Team Meeting**
**NSTX Control Room Annex, B318**
**September 23, 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***
***JAEA***
***Hebrew U***
***Ioffe Inst***
***RRC Kurchatov Inst***
***TRINITI***
***KBSI***
***KAIST***
***POSTECH***
***ASIPP***
***ENEA, Frascati***
***CEA, Cadarache***
***IPP, J******ü******lich***
***IPP, Garching***
***ASCR, Czech Rep***
***U Quebec***

## NSTX Program Update

- Last team meeting was in May 2008 – much has happened since then!
- July:  NSTX 5yr plan successfully peer reviewed + successful facility review
- Preparation of documentation for major upgrades (CS, NBI) underway
**CALENDAR**
- Diagnostic collaboration proposals due to DOE Thu Sep 25
- NSTX ITPA prep meeting next Monday Sep 29 – 1:30-4PM
- FESAC toroidal alternates panel (TAP) meeting Oct 1-2
- Final report from TAP due end of October
- Report will be discussed at next FESAC meeting – Nov 6-7
- IAEA - Oct 13-18, ITPA - Oct 20-23, APS - Nov 17-21
- NSTX Research Forum – Dec 8-10
- ITPA/IEA joint experiment planning – Dec 11-12 (MIT)
- NSTX PAC meeting – sometime in Jan/Feb (under discussion)

## Research Needs Workshops (ReNeWs) to provide input to a more detailed, long-range (15-20 yr) strategic plan for MFES

- Intend to complete by March 2010 - first ReNeW will be June 7-13, 2009
- Through this workshop and all the discussion, planning and activities leading up to it, the community will provide DOE with the information it needs to produce the long-range strategic plan, namely:
- The agreed-upon issues that need to be resolved.
- The fusion/plasma/engineering science research that is required to attain a sufficient knowledge base to allow the nation to decide whether to proceed with the development of fusion as an energy source for the future.
- A clear understanding of the approaches to resolve these issues and attain this knowledge base including, as appropriate, a scientific/technical roadmap with options and decision points. An evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages should be provided if there is more than one approach. In addition to existing domestic facilities, consideration should be given to utilizing existing or planned foreign facilities to accomplish the required scientific objectives. If possible, preliminary scientific or technological research capability requirements should be provided for any new U.S. initiatives.
- Explanation of the logical linkages among the various activities including the possibility of joint research, both domestically and internationally, and required new U.S. capabilities.

## A Multi-year, Multi-Step PlanningProcess for Each Area of Responsibility

*Issue*
*Identification,*
*Research Needs*

*Approaches,*
*Options,*
*Initiatives*

*Consolidation,*
*Prioritization*

*Grand*
*Challenges,*
*Missions*

***Tokamak***
***/ AT***

***Magnetic***
***Alternates***

***Plasma***
***Science***

***HEDLP***
***/ IFES***

***OFES; FESAC******NRC***

_***IFES***_

_***Plasma***_
_***Science***_

_***MFES***_

_***HEDLP***_
_***Science***_

***NRC BPAC,***
***FESAC***

***FESAC***

***Workshop(s)***

***NRC BPAC,***
***FESAC***

***FESAC***

***Workshop(s)***

***NRC, OSTP,***
***Task Force***

***FESAC-e***

***Workshop(s)?***

***Workshops***

***OFES / NNSA***
***“******FESAC-e”***
***NRC***

***NRC FUSAC,***
***Plasma 2010***

***FESAC***

***Workshop(s)?***

***OFES; FESAC***
***NRC***

***Science***
***Area***

_***Outcome***_
_***= Plan***_

- Completed

- Ongoing

- Incomplete

- Attachment 1

## Fusion Energy Sciences Program

- OFES Prepares Draft Long-Range Strategic Plan

- Revise

**Publish**
** ****Long-Range Strategic Plan**

**FESAC Meeting**
**Nov 6-7**

**Fusion Energy Sciences Program**
_**MFES Strategic Planning Timeline**_

- 09/17/08

- Creating Predictable
- High-Performance
- Steady-State Plasmas

- Panels  Prepare for Workshop

**Complete Draft Long-Range Strategic Plan**

**OFES Appoints Workshop Chairs, Co-Chairs and OFES Workshop Leaders**

- Harnessing Fusion Power

- Panels  Prepare for Workshop

- Taming the Plasma Material Interface

- Panels  Prepare for Workshop

- Final Report Available

**FESAC Meeting**
**Jan 14-15**

- Optimizing the Magnetic Configuration

- Panels  Prepare for Workshop

**Workshop**

**Strategic Overview Plan to Congress**

- Achieving and Understanding the Burning Plasma State

- Panels  Prepare for Workshop

**FESAC **
**Meeting **
**Nov**

**FESAC **
**Meeting **
**Jan**

- Attachment 2

## Research Needs Workshop 

**Structure**

- Achieving and Understanding the Burning Plasma State

- Creating Predictable High-Performance Steady-State Plasmas

- Taming the
- Plasma Material Interface

- Harnessing
- Fusion
- Power

- Optimizing the Magnetic Configuration

- Measurement

- Integration

- Theory and Modeling

- Control

- Off-Normal Plasma Events

- Plasma Modification by Auxiliary Systems

- Magnets

- Plasma-Wall Interactions

- Plasma-Facing Components

- Internal Components

- Fuel Cycle

- Power Extraction

- Materials Science

- Safety

- RAMI

- Magnetic Fusion Energy Sciences

- Stellarator

- Spherical Tokamak

- Reversed Field Pinch

- Compact Toroids

- Attachment 3