• Housekeeping tours of NCSX manufacturing and test areas highlighted need for a master plan for space utilization in the TFTR test cell. It needs to be time-phased and needs to address storage as well as operational needs. Responsibility: Dudek
• Radiation hazard control in the TFTR test cell: procedures worked out with HP for controlling access to the test cell, movement of materials in and out, etc. have worked well over the past year. We need to work at maintaining this same culture as the level of activity increases and new people get involved in the activities there. Responsibility: Neilson.
  

• Lehman Review, Nov. 2-3.  Review committee will be: Steve Meador (SC), chair; and Dave Anderson (U.Wisc.), Ron Lutha (DOE-Fermi), Joe Minervini (MIT), and Kin Chao (SC).
• FY-06 Work planning.  Outstanding estimates need to be submitted. We will start holding management reviews of estimates and plans. Action: Ron schedule and coordinate reviews.
  

• Job 1414, Twisted Racetrack Coil testing. Good progress last week, summarized in separate e-mail reports from Gettelfinger and Schneider. Reached 20 kA, 1.5-second pulses. Progress was halted by multiple issues including leaky LN plumbing in the coil cryostat, cryo system problems, and power supply problems. In response, we need to:
  
  • Make necessary repairs, resume testing, and try to complete the program as planned. Wayne
  • Review the data already acquired to determine its usefulness and carefully set priorities for additional data needs, in case the program cannot be completed as planned. Wayne and Brad.
    
• Job 1203, VV design.  We will go ahead with the FDR scheduled for this Friday, Sept. 16, but it will be planned as one part of a multi-part FDR.  Action: Wayne / Brad develop charge for this week’s FDR and a plan for completing the VV final design.
• Job 1411, MCWF Fabrication.  Major Tool has slipped a few days relative to their most recent schedule forecast, due to difficulties in finishing the poloidal break. They forecast ship to PPPL Sept. 23; we expect delivery in September. We will maintain daily contact on schedule status and plans for final inspection and test.  Responsibility: Phil.
  

• ARIES-CS Meeting Sept. 15-16
  
  • Mike will post call-in instructions for stellarator community off-site participants.
  • We need to help the ARIES team get clear feedback on the CS assumptions they are using and their plans for completing the study. Hutch will moderate the discussion.  Mike should prepare slide(s) with feedback and recommendations to put up for discussion.
    
• APS Satellite Meeting on Research Opportunities in Stellarators.
  
  • Jim has scheduled it for Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 2:00-3:30. PPPL will pay for meeting services. Pamela will work with the conference services people. Will request projector, screen, and microphone from the hotel.  We (Jim) will provide our own computer.
  • We agreed the agenda should:  emphasize research opportunities that would interest the target audience, combine some of the talks, be planned for 1 hour, be extended to 1.5 hours if warranted by the level of discussion/interest.
  • Tentative agenda:
    

Program overview, J. Lyon
HSX & CTH, D. Anderson
NCSX, M. Zarnstorff
QPS, J. Harris

• Next steps (Jim): update agenda (with times), coordinate plans with speakers and provide guidance, design a poster to advertise the meeting, coordinate the talks to ensure coherence (rehearsals).
  
• FY-05 3Q Progress Report, and FY-06 priorities and work plans. Most of FY-05 plans have been accomplished; some boundary tasks will be completed early in FY-06.  Meetings are planned to develop FY-06 plans.  Magnetics and Boundary are the key areas.  Priorities will have to be carefully set, given the relatively small budget for research prep.