Roger Raman

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

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 Results Review PPPL, Princeton, NJ, 26-28
July, 2006
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NSTX completed gt60 days days involving machine
operations

• 30 Experimental Proposals and 5 machine proposals
  run
• ITPA Tasks (34)
• ST Unique (35)
• ITER/Tokamak Relevant (60)
• Milestone related (57)
• 52.8 days of effective run usage(85 duty
  factor)
• 5 days for enabling activities

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MHD run usage 8.2 days
MHD Total 64 hours in base plan 39.86 25.57
65.43 hours used
XP Author Hours used Base plan (Hr)/ actual used
615 Sabbagh 14.97 5.19 16 / 20.16
614 Menard 12.73 10.04 20 / 22.77
618 Strait 5.55 4 / 5.55
XMP45 Sontag 6.61 8 / 6.61
619 Sontag 0 10.34 8 / 10.34
623 Gates 0 8 / 0
Red indicates time after mid-run assessment
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Boundary group run usage 15.4 days
Boundary Total 64 hours in base plan 87.01
35.87 122.88 hours used
XP Author Hours used Base plan (Hr)/ actual used
601 Kugel 38.82 25.87 24 / 64.69
616 Kugel 7.99 4 / 7.99
605 Soukhanovskii 13.03 4/ 13.03
604 Boedo 6.33 8 / 6.33
626 Soukhanovskii 5.51 4/ 5.51
621 Hubbard 3.34 0.5 8 / 3.84
529 Maingi 11.99 3.26 8 / 15.25
630 Williams 0 6.04 0 / 6.04
46 Bush 0 0.2 4 / 0.2
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Transport Turbulence group run usage 10.4
days
Transport and Turbulence Total 52 hours 32.17
51.27 83.44 hours used
XP Author Hours used Base plan (Hr)/ actual used
612 Stutman 6.86 2.62 8 / 9.48
610 Levinton 10.57 5.26 8 / 15.83
47 Tamura 5.08 4 / 5.08
44 Smith 9.66 5.29 16 / 14.95
613 Delgado 0 6.71 8 / 6.71
532 Kaye 0 14.63 8 / 14.63
629 Park 6.91 0 / 6.91
620 Smith 7.86 0 / 7.86
-20 Darrow 1.99 0 / 1.99
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Wave Particles group run usage 6.5 days
Wave Particles Total 36 hours in base plan
26.33 25.63 51.96 hours used
XP Author Hours used Base plan (Hr)/ actual used
XMP 26 Hosea 8.05 4 / 8.05
617 Hosea 5.887.54 8 / 13.42
625 Diem 4.489.47 8 / 13.95
607 Heidbrink 7.92 8 / 7.92
608 Fredrickson 08.62 8 / 8.62
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ISD group run usage 7.3 days and Solenoid-free
plasma startup group run usage 4.8 days
ISD Total 40 hours in base plan 38.74 19.36
58.1 hours used
XP Author Hours used Base plan (Hr)/ actual used
603 Gates 9.92 8.14 8 / 18.06
602 Menard 10.32 5.18 8 / 15.50
627 Kessel 8.03 2.42 8 / 10.45
526 Kaye 10.47 3.62 8 / 14.09
605 Soukhanovskii 0 4 / 0
628 Leuer 0 4 / 0
Sol-Free Plasma Startup 32 hours in base plan
24.03 14.67 38.7 hours used
XP Author Hours used Base plan (Hr)/ actual used
533 Mueller 7.94 8 / 7.94
606 Raman 16.09 14.67 24 / 30.76
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Run Plan breakdown by Experimental Task Groups
(based on 52.8 days of Run)
Boundary Physics 15.5 days
Transport and Turbulence 10.4 days
MHD Physics 8.2 days
Wave Particle Physics 6.5 days
Integrated Scenario Development 7.3 days
Solenoid-free plasma startup 4.9 days
Enabling activities 5 days
Total 57.8 days
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Summary of FY 06 Experiments
Groups 1 Boundary, 2 TT, 3 MHD, 4 WavePart,
5 ISD, 6 Sol-Free StartUp XP Color code Bold
Black (Milestone), Red (ITPA), Bold Red
(Milestone ITPA)
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Good to excellent progress in all ET areas

• Completed all Milestone Requirements
• Significantly contributed to ITPA tasks,
• - and conducted ST unique experiments
• New, very significant results produced

Special Thanks to all Experimental Task Group
Leaders for the excellent job in prioritizing
experiments and for a very productive run