1. Progress to Date PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20101NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky CD-0 Approved February 2009 The NSTX Upgrade Project organization formally established under the Associate Director for Engineering and Infrastructure. Successful technical conceptual peer reviews. Bottoms-up cost and schedule estimate prepared Successful Independent CDR October 28-29 th CD-1 Documentation Prepared in compliance with DOE Order 413.3 Successful OFES (Lehman) Review December 15 th –16 th Value engineering has resulted in ~$5M cost reductions in the coil support design /installation and NBI decontamination & refurbishment Successful technical preliminary design peer review held March 3rd for Neutral Beam #2 Extensive iteration of project cost, schedule and scope with OFES CD-1 Approved April 15 th Peer Review April 21 st CS Preliminary Design Peer Review April 29 th NBI Decontamination

2. 2 nd Neutral Beam Decontamination in progress PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20102NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky

3. Plans for 2010 PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20103NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky Preliminary Design – FMEA analysis, Design models, stress, EM,& Thermal Analyses – Complete NBI Decontamination – R&D Activities (joint test, OH braze testing flex joint mockup) – Update GRD for CS – Updated CD-2 Estimates – Project comprehensive PDR June 23 rd – 24 th Outside reviewers All WBS elements included Includes Management assessment of CD-2 readiness Office of science review August 10 th -11 th Apply for CD-2 August 2010 CD-2 Approval September 2010 Begin Final Design after CD-2 approval

4. Plans for 2011 PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20104NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky DOE Authorization to buy critical procurements –TF Inner Conductor (November Award) –TF Machining (April Award) Begin NBI refurbishment (requires DOE authorization prior to CD-3) CS and NBI final design and analysis CS and NBI Final Peer reviews mid-FY 2011 Final Design Review 3 rd quarter FY 2011 OFES (Lehman review) 4 th quarter FY 2011 CD-3 Approval Late FY 2011 Complete Inner TF Fabrication (conductor machining, friction stir weld leads, procure OH conductor)

5. Plans for 2012 PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20105NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky Begin TF/OH final assembly CS tile procurement NBI major procurements (duct, vessel cap, bellows, tiles) NBI Services Beamline relocation preparations (fixtures, procedures) Removal procedures and re-installation design Complete FY12 operations campaign and begin outage Start Diagnostics removals

6. Project Cost and Schedule Range PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20106NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky $72M being re-directed from within the NSTX Program $3M - $21M Incremental funding required from DOE Critical path through design, fabrication, installation and test of center TF/OH. 41 month critical path from award of TF copper. Requires early purchase of TF Copper Dec 2010 Milestones

7. CD-4 Definition PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20107NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky Center Stack First plasma with an ohmically heated discharge > 50 kA at a toroidal magnetic field of > 1 kG. Second neutral beam installed and; The beamline has been pumped to a vacuum better than 10 mTorr; Beamline water, vacuum, cryogenics, and feedstock gas services have been attached to the beamline; Three sources placed on alignment rails on the beamline source platform; Power testing has demonstrated Accel High Voltage standoff to > 80 kV through the high voltage enclosure; A Torus Isolation Valve and duct interconnects the NSTX vacuum vessel and the neutral beamline; Armor has been reconfigured in the vacuum vessel; Local Control Centers have been powered on to monitor power supply status, and; Project will be verified as complete when a 40,000 electron-volt beam has been produced. Demonstrated Performance at Completion

8. Risks, Issues, Opportunities PPPL Advisory Board Meeting May 20108NSTX Upgrade – R. L. Strykowsky ▲No significant jugular risk ~$3M total at time of CD-1 review. ▲Approx 43 open risk remaining - covered by mitigation plans and contingency ▲No large or long lead procurements ─PFC Tile $650K & 4 mos. ─Cable installation $535K and 8 mos. ─Rectangular bellows $400K and 9 mos. ─NBI Cables $422K and 5 mos. ─TF copper $242K and 5 mos. ▲78% of project cost for in-house labor – under PPPL control ▼DOE fiscal pressure results in backend loading funding profiles resulting ▼Project not funded separately thus subject to annual competition of funds from within NSTX program. ►Purchase copper & machining desirable to leverage critical path