Summary of NCSX SIT Meeting of 4/4/05

From: Hutch Neilson
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:21 PM
To: Michael C. Zarnstorff; Wayne T. Reiersen; Ronald L. Strykowsky; Brad Nelson; John A. Schmidt; Hutch Neilson; Jim Lyon; Phil Heitzenroeder; Mike Williams
Subject: Summary of NCSX SIT Meeting of 4/4/05
Summary of NCSX System Integration Team (SIT) Meeting of Monday, April 4, 2005

1. Re-baselining Status

The current status of re-baselined cost and schedule estimates were reviewed. Project schedule is stretched out due to slower funding from DOE. Total cost is increased due to stretchout of project core team, increased G&A/labor rates, and revised estimates. Follow-up actions were assigned.
Near-term schedule:
- Apr. 15. Complete Lab review of re-baseline.
- Apr. 18. Brief OFES on major cost and schedule changes.
- Apr. 18. Start posting documentation on web site.
- Apr. 20. Dry runs of Neilson and Strykowsky presentations, 1:00-5:00.
- Apr. 25. OFES review and approve new baseline.

2. Critical-path Final Design Tasks (Brad)

Brad reported that an efficient method for modeling the cladding and chill plates has been developed and ORNL expects to begin producing drawings soon. Status and forecast FDR dates to be reported by Dave at March job status meeting later this week .
Need to re-assess FY05 funding requirements in light of updated MC and VV design estimates done for the re-baselining. Action: Brad and Ron.

3. Project Control (Ron)

March job status meeting will be Friday, April 8, starting at 8:30. Ron to arrange.

4. Next SIT Meeting: April 18 at 11:00.

5. Other Planning Items

Conferences
- SOFE-05, Sept. 26-30, Knoxville, TN
Phil Heitzenroeder is leading in developing a list of candidate papers. He has identified about 19 potential NCSX papers. Although this may be a few too many, in general paper submission and attendance by engineering team will be encouraged. Everyone should provide feedback to Phil.
Abstract deadline is April 30. PPPL internal deadline is April 22 to Rosemarie Fuchs-Smith.
Int’l Stellarator Workshop, Oct. 3-7, Madrid.
- Mike Zarnstorff is on the program committee. No deadlines have been issued.
- Anticipate an invited paper on NCSX. Engineering topics may be prominently featured because of high interest in stellarator construction issues. Examples: component manufacture, dimensional control, modular coil development.
- Update of NCSX research directions and plans would be a likely paper.
- Expect maybe 3 to attend from PPPL, maybe 3-4 from ORNL.
APS-DPP Meeting, Oct. 24-28, Denver
- Deadline for review, tutorial, and invited papers is May 18.
ARIES-CS
- ARIES-CS Project may carry a set of configurations rather than down-select to one.
- An ARIES team meeting to be held at PPPL in September will include a “town meeting” of the stellarator community to provide feedback on the ARIES-CS directions: assumptions, configurations, plans.
- Priorities for configuration studies between now and September meeting should be carefully set, due to resource limitations. Meeting of Ku, Zarnstorff, Lyon, and Neilson should be arranged to discuss priorities. Action: Hutch.

Summary by:
Hutch Neilson