1. Status and plans for FESAC TEC report
R. Maingi, PPPL
A. Lumsdaine, ORNL
FESAC TEC Panel Executive Session
PPPL, Princeton, NJ
19 July 2017

2. Community Input Meetings – Panel Q/A Sessions
Three meetings have been planned for community input:
May 30-June 1, 2017 (Rockville, MD): Community input meeting for Plasma Diagnostics, Actuators, and Control sub-panel, and also for Reactor and Balance of Plant sub-panel; workshop starts at 9 AM on 5/30 and ends by 6 PM on 6/1.
June 20-22, 2017 (Chicago, IL): Community input meeting for Plasma-Materials Interaction sub-panel; workshop starts at 1 PM on 6/20 and ends by 5 PM on 6/22.
July 19-21, 2017 (PPPL, Princeton NJ): Final workshop for all three sub-panels; one day of community input time; workshop starts at 1 PM on 7/19 and ends by 5 PM on 7/21.
Final panel face-to-face on Sept. 6, 2017 (TBD: FES or Chicago?)

3. Present status
Determine which areas are missing from what you have heard, and select top 4 talks you’d like to hear at PPPL, including invited and contributed talks
Work within your subpanel before PPPL meeting to consolidate the talks and white papers into TEC elements – target 3-6 total TEC elements from each sub-panel, including elements that may not qualify as “most promising” TEC
We’ll target 5-10 “most promising” TEC elements in the final write-up
Evaluate the TEC elements above as a subpanel, using the Lumsdaine rubric as a tool, and prepare to present your subpanel’s position on which ones are/are not TEC to the entire panel at the PPPL workshop, 7/19-21
Finalize your sub-panel’s position during parallel sessions on Thu. PM

4. Panel-wide deliberations on TEC elements – Begins Thursday afternoon
30 min. panel-wide discussion on what constitutes a “transformative enabling capability” (TEC) element
White’s subpanel presents their findings on TEC elements
Subpanel discussion and feedback: up to 3 hours
Use straw votes as necessary to identify panel views
Break up into parallel groups on Thursday afternoon/evening for Allain & Greenfield sub-panels to agree on TEC elements
Dinner on Thursday night is flexible – if subpanels need to continue working later, we will order pizza to lab
Allain and Greenfield subpanels should converge on their presentation of TEC elements; presentations begin Friday morning

5. Panel-wide deliberations on TEC elements – Friday
Allain and Greenfield finish presenting their panel findings on Friday by 2 PM (about 3 hours each)
Tentatively starting at 8 AM, but may move back to 8:30
Working lunch delivered to Director’s Conference Room at noon
Discussion of TEC elements with variability of opinion from 2-3:30
Writing assignments from 3:30-4:30
During the writing period, authors need to take into account
Evaluate whether the community input obtained at PPPL meeting contributes to an existing TEC element or a new one
No new TEC elements considered after 7/21/17, but subpanels can have telecons obtaining additional community input for 3 weeks, until 8/11/17 – need to decide if this is really needed
Identify cross-cuts and synergies between TEC elements from all 3 subpanels
Assess which TEC elements advance both stellarators and tokamaks
Assess international activity and potential US leadership areas as requested in charge

6. Process and Schedule
Report structure: background section on “Grand Challenges” – three sections, one from each subpanel
Include discussion of “enabling” parts of the (existing) program
TEC elements in separate chapters – includes answers to the questions we posed to the community participants
Possible tiers: “Most promising” and “Promising”
Chapter on cross-cuts:
Innovations that require another improvement to be used, and
Innovations that touch multiple parts of a fusion power plant (e.g. core, boundary, BOP)
Details of final panel face to face discussion on 9/6/17 will be determined by how far we get at this meeting
Goal is to have a written first draft of the chapters
FESAC meeting to be scheduled as we get closer to write-up (30 days notice required)
Draft schedule next page

7. Rough Time Table 7/21/17 (– 7/28/17): writing assignments
9/6/17 – first draft of chapters
10/6/17 – final report written
11/13-11/17 – FESAC meeting (earliest possible schedule)
Detailed schedule announced on 7/21/17, depending on progress