1 Update on Run Schedule R. Raman NSTX Team Meeting PPPL, Princeton, NJ, 08 February, 2006 Work supported by DOE contract numbers DE-FG02-99ER54519 AM08, DE-FG03-96ER54361 Supported by Office of Science College W&M 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 U Quebec

2 Start date of NSTX Run to be finalized soon Note: Decision on Baking vessel will revise the present Draft schedule First Week of research focus is in pre-Li experiments –Obtain reliable plasmas in NSTX (2 days) and conduct piggy back activities Test the Supersonic gas injector Get all diagnostics working Test high-k scattering and RWM systems Second week devoted to evaluating Li capability and to develop suitable plasma targets for other experiments Third week will develop tools needed for RWM system and high-k scattering diagnostic –Supporting experiments in these areas would be conducted Then we will evaluate Li capability and assess impact on NSTX Run Early next week, the updated schedule will be posted on the NSTX web page

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4 Maintenance Breaks We expect week of April 3-7 (TTF Meeting) and May 8-12 (HTPDC) to be used as maintenance breaks NSTX is planned to operate during the weeks April (ITPA meeting at MIT) and April (ITPA meeting at PPPL) –Operations support staff who plan to attend these two meetings are requested to inform me.