Summary of NCSX System Integration Team (SIT) Meeting of Monday, September 20, 2004

1.    CD-3 (Hutch)

• CD-3 was approved on Sept. 16.  
• Barry Sullivan, OFES, is the new NCSX Program Manager, replacing Gene Nardella who has become the Technology Program Manager.
• There will be a weekly NCSX status teleconference with Pitonak, Sullivan, Lyon, and Neilson on Thursdays at 11:30.
• The next Lehman review is planned for Dec. 7.
  

2.   Critical Issues

• 12-8.   VV temperature-related risks and concerns.
  
  • Except for the NBI ports, the  inconel-to-stainless transition occurs at the weld joint, where a stainless flange is welded to an inconel port nozzle. The design includes port heaters on the nozzle to keep the stresses benign during 350 C bakeout, when the flanges are kept at 150 C. Thermal analyses have been done which indicate that we should not have a problem at the inconel-to-stainless transitions.  Goranson is still looking at the circular conflats.  At this time, it is not believed that starting up the machine with no active heating to the vessel body poses any risk to the machine. Loss of power to the port heaters is a failure mode that needs to be accommodated in any event, probably with a backup power supply.
  • The heat distribution associated with induction heating using the PF coils is being analyzed by Art Brooks.  There are no requirements on spatial uniformity of heating for the 150 C induction heating scenario.  At this time it is not believed that there is any risk to the machine associated with heating non-uniformity in that scenario.
    
• 12-6.  Weld joint R&D.  Questions have been raised within the engineering team about the baseline weld joint design, but it has a sound rationale. Small-sample tests are beginning and the pieces will be configured so as to prototype the baseline design.  The design of the full-scale test article has been issued for fabrication and is believed to be in the procurement process.   Larry Dudek, who is leading those tests, is on vacation this week, but Wayne will follow up on the status in his absence and, to the extent  practicable, keep them moving.  Action: Wayne.
  

3.   August Cost-Performance Results (Wayne)

• Draft report was issued by Ron for discussion. SPI and CPI are both 0.97.  Some follow-up is needed to understand the variances.  Assignees are requested to respond to Ron by Wednesday noon concerning the cause and corrective action for the cost and schedule  variances in the following jobs:
  
  • 1403 MC Final Design-  Brad
  • 1404  MCWF R&D-  Phil
  • 1406  MC Winding R&D-  Wayne
  • 1407  MC Winding Facilities-  Wayne
  • 81  Project Management & Control-  Hutch
  • 82   Project Engineering-  Wayne
    

4.  Re-baselining for FY-05  (Ron)

• Plan presented by Ron was discussed and approved:
  
  • Sept. 30,  Job manager input to Ron. Preferred format is marked-up bar charts.
  • Oct. 4-8,  Meetings with job managers and management team to review plans.
    

5.  Next SIT Meeting: Monday,  September 27, 2004 at 11:00 a.m.

Summary by:
Hutch Neilson