# Presentation: 703292

## NSTX Team Meeting

**NSTX Team Meeting**

**Mar. 25, 2004**

***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***

**Notes:**
I would like to cover the NSTX facility plan, budget and point out some  issues along the way. Our facility plan is very ell focused on supporting the NSTX research plan as described by Martin to meet the FESAC 5 year objectives.

## NSTX Team Meeting Agenda

- •  1:30 Budget Planning Meeting Summary - M. Peng, M. Ono, E. Synakowski
- •  1:50 Departmental Items - M. Ono
- •  2:00 Engineering Operations - A. von Halle
- •  2:10 Experimental Research Operations - M. Bell
- •  2:25 Physics Analysis Update - C. K. Phillips
- •  2:35 Run Coordination - S. Kaye
- •  2:45 Program - M. Peng, E. Synakowski
- •  3:00 Adjourn

## NSTX Budget Summary ($M)

|  | FY 04 | FY 05 |  |  | FY06 |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Budget Cases | Base | 10% Cut | Base | Request | 10% Cut | Base | Request |
| Run Weeks | 18 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 18 |
| Facility Ops | 17.46 | 15.36 | 16.75 | 17.90 | 15.38 | 16.84 | 18.01 |
| Facility Upgrades | 1.17 | 0.42 | 0.73 | 1.58 | 0.43 | 0.63 | 2.61 |
| Facility Total | 18.63 | 15.78 | 17.48 | 19.48 | 15.81 | 17.47 | 20.62 |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| PPPL Research | 9.81 | 8.90 | 9.80 | 10.38 | 8.97 | 9.81 | 10.40 |
| Diag Upgrades | 0.78 | 0.54 | 0.75 | 1.13 | 0.44 | 0.75 | 0.99 |
| Coll Diag Interf | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.47 | 0.51 | 0.56 |
| Collaborations | 4.77 | 4.29 | 4.77 | 5.24 | 4.29 | 4.77 | 5.24 |
| Science Total | 15.84 | 14.19 | 15.82 | 17.30 | 14.17 | 15.84 | 17.19 |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| NSTX Total | 34.47 | 29.97 | 33.31 | 36.78 | 29.97 | 33.31 | 37.81 |

**• ****Facility budget for FY05 reduced by $1.1M and kept constant in FY06 resulting in fewer run weeks in FY05 (14) and FY06 (12)**
**• ****Science & Collaboration budget kept constant**
**• ****Additional $1M / year effective budget reduction due to inflation **

## NSTX Budget Summary ($M)

- Facility Upgrades

**• ****EBW CD system the highest priority longer term upgrade**
**• ****PF 1A upgrade central to the near term adv. ST research**
**• ****Power and particle control capability crucial for sustained adv. ST regimes **
**• ****Spare OH solenoid to mitigate risk of highest stress component**

## NSTX Budget Summary ($M)

**• ****Critical profile diagnostics supported  (pedestal, V****p****)**
**• ****Fluctuation diagnostics (high k and imaging) pursued as high priority**
**• ****Struggling to fund high priority boundary physics diagnostics**

- Diagnostic Upgrades

## FY 2006 OFES Budget Planning Meeting

- _Tuesday, March 16_
**08:30**	M. Roberts (OFES) Status of ITER International Agreement
- 09:00      N. Sauthoff (PPPL)/C. Baker (UCSD) ITER Presentation and        	Discussions
**Other ITER Issues**
- 11:00	 LANL ITER Plans		Glen Wurden
- 11:10	LLNL ITER Plans			John Lindl
- 11:20			     Community Discussion
**11:30**	C. Baker (UCSD) Status Report on the FESAC Priorities Panel
**01:00**	**Opening Comments**		Anne Davies
**01:15**	**Enabling R&D**	Charlie Baker / Stan Milora
**03:00**	**HEDP/IFE**	G.Logan /J. Lindl/M.Campbell
**04:15**	Theory Program Overview		Curt Bolton			 Theory Issues/Plans		Janardhan Manickam

## FY 2006 OFES Budget Planning Meeting

- _Wednesday, March 17_
**08:30**	**DIII-D**		RonStambaugh / Tony Taylor
**10:15****	****C-Mod****	****	**Earl Marmar
-  	MIT Institutional Issues		Miklos Porkolab
**11:15****	****NSTX**		Martin Peng / Masa Ono
- 	PPPL Institutional Issues		Rich Hawryluk
**01:30**	**ICC**		F. Thio/B. Hooper
- 	 MST Plans/Institutional Issues	Stewart Prager
**03:00**	**Stellarators****	**NCSX & QPS	Hutch Neilson
- 03:30                                  CTH & HSX	Steve Knowlton
**04:20**	**Int’l Collaboration & ITER Physics ****	**(Erol Oktay)
- 	International Activities Update	Ned Sauthoff

## Slide 8

## Departmental Items

- • NSTX will receive a “Commissioner of Labor Award” for having worked three consecutive years without an injury case requiring time away from work.  These awards will be presented at an Annual Governor’s Occupational Safety and Health Awards Program dinner in the Spring.  Jerry Levine

- •  On Thursday, March 25th, at 3:30pm, there will be a meeting in the MBG Auditorium to describe this activity and how you can contribute to it.  Your participation and ideas are important for the outcome of this process.See you on Thursday,  Rich Hawryluk

- • Discretionary budget is very tight.  We need to reduce the expense as much as possible or we will run out of money by the summer.
- 	- Minimize travel (make presentations for others)
- 	- Minimize work in the weekends
- 	**Can we lock up the test cell during weekends?****	**