Roger Raman

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• Roger Raman
• for the NSTX Research Team
• University of Washington, Seattle
• NSTX Run Usage 27 February 5 May, 2006

College WM 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 JAERI Hebrew
U Ioffe Inst RRC Kurchatov Inst TRINITI KBSI KAIST
ENEA, Frascati CEA, Cadarache IPP, Jülich IPP,
Garching ASCR, Czech Rep
NSTX Mid-Run Assessment PPPL, Princeton, NJ, 10
May, 2006
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NSTX has completed 40 days involving machine
operations

• 22 Experimental Proposals and 3 machine proposals
  run
• 31 days of effective run usage
• Shots with no coil currents filtered out
• 4 days for enabling activities
• Good progress in all ET areas
• ET Leaders to provide input on
• Tasks accomplished with respect to milestone and
  ITPA
• Work remaining from on-going experiments
• New experiments for consideration

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Progress with Experiments in Base Run Plan
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Run Plan breakdown by Experimental Task Groups
(based on 41 scheduled days)
Boundary Physics 8 days
Transport and Turbulence 6.5 days
MHD Physics 8 days
Wave Particle Physics 4.5 days
Integrated Scenario Development 5 days
Solenoid-free plasma startup 4 days
Enabling activities 5 days
Contingency 14 days To be determined at mid-run assessment
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MHD and Boundary group run usage
MHD Total 64 hours in base plan 39.86 hours
used
XP Author Hours used Base plan (Hr)
615 Sabbagh 14.97 16
614 Menard 12.73 20
618 Strait 5.55 4
XMP45 Sontag 6.61 8
619 Sontag 0 8
623 Gates 0 8
Boundary Total 64 hours 87.01 hours used
601 Kugel 38.82 24
616 Kugel 7.99 4
605 Soukhanovskii 13.03 4
604 Boedo 6.33 8
626 Soukhanovskii 5.51 4
621 Hubbard 3.34 8
529 Maingi 11.99 8
46 Bush 0 4
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Transport Turbulence and Wave Particles group
run usage
Transport and Turbulence Total 52 hours 32.17
hours used
612 Stutman 6.86 8
610 Levinton 10.57 8
47 Tamura 5.08 4
44 Smith 9.66 16
613 Delgado 0 8
532 Kaye 0 8
Wave Particles Total 36 hours 26.33 hours used
XMP 26 Hosea 8.05 4
617 Hosea 5.88 8
625 Diem 4.48 8
607 Heidbrink 7.92 8
608 Fredrickson 0 8
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ISD and Solenoid-free plasma startup group run
usage
ISD Total 40 hours 38.74 hours used
603 Gates 9.92 8
602 Menard 10.32 8
627 Kessel 8.03 8
526 Kaye 10.47 8
605 Soukhanovskii 0 4
628 Leuer 0 4
Sol-Free Plasma Startup 32 hours 24.03 hours
used
533 Mueller 7.94 8
606 Raman 16.09 24
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Unallocated time for base plan experiments (7-3/4
days)
MHD 3 days
Wave Particles 1-1/4 days
Transport Turbulence 2-1/2 days
Boundary 0 days
ISD 0 days
Solenoid Free Plasma Startup 1 day
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Two weeks run time available for balance of FY06

• Focus on completing important missing results
  from present experiments related to Milestones
• Try to do as good a job we can with the
  Milestones
• Unfinished work from base plan ITPA related
  experiments
• New experiments that would be particularly timely
  for execution during FY06