1. Supported by NSTX Team Meeting March 23, 2005 Columbia U Comp-X GA INEL JHU LANL LLNL Lodestar MIT Nova Photonics NYU ORNL PPPL PSI SNL UC Davis UC Irvine UCLA UCSD U Maryland U New Mexico U Wash U Wisc UKAEA Fusion Hiroshima U HIST Kyushu Tokai U Niigata U Tsukuba U U Tokyo Ioffe Inst TRINITI KBSI KAIST ENEA Frascati

2. Time: 1: 30 ~ 3:00, Place LSB-318, March 23, 2005 General Items: 1:30 - 1: 45 FY 07 Budget Planning Meeting: 1:45 - 2:00 Preparation toward FY 05 Run: 2:00 - 3:00 - Engineering Activities - A. VonHalle - Research Operations - M. Bell - Run Coordination - J. Menard NSTX Team Meeting Agenda

3. Safely, Safely, Safely To all, I have just been informed that the Laboratory has earned the following safety awards from the State of New Jersey for performance in 2004: 1. PPPL : Recognition Award for having a low rate of away-from-work lost time injury/illness cases. 2. Maintenance & Operations Division: Citation of Merit Award for having no away-from-work lost time injury/illness cases. 3. NSTX Project - Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development Continued Excellence Award for having gone 4 consecutive years without an away from work lost time injury/illness case. These awards will be presented at an upcoming Governor’s Occupational Safety and Health Awards Program Area dinner. Congratulations! (Jerry Levine)

4. Tuesday, March 15 8:30 a.m.Opening CommentsAnne Davies 8:45 a.m.Status of ITER NegotiationsMichael Roberts 9:00 a.m.Overview of ITER ProjectActivities in the U.S.Ned Sauthoff 9:30 a.m.ITER Institutional IssuesNed Sauthoff 9:45 a.m.C-Mod Research Plans and Budget Earl Marmar 10:15 a.m.MIT Institutional IssuesMiklos Porkolab 10:50 a.m.DIII-D: IntroductionRon Stambaugh 11:00 a.m.DIII-D Research PlansMickey Wade 11:30 a.m.University Research and DIII-DJerry Navratil 11:45 a.m. DIII-D Program Budget and Schedules Ron Stambaugh 1:15 p.m.NSTX Research PlansMartin Peng 1:30 p.m. Facility and Budget PlansMasa Ono 1:55 p.m.PPPL Institutional IssuesRich Hawryluk

5. 2:15 p.m. Plasma ScienceDOE Laboratory GeneralMike Crisp Plasma Science Competition NSF/DOE Partnership Competition 2:45 p.m. ICC Issues/ChallengesG. Wurden/B. Hooper 3:15 p.m.MST Plans/Institutional IssuesStewart Prager 4:10 p.m.National Compact Stellarator Program Jim Lyon 4:35 p.m NCSX StatusHutch Neilson 5:05 p.m.International Collaboration 5:15 p.m.Speakers: International Activities UpdateDale Meade Wednesday, March 16 8:30 a.m.TheoryProgram OverviewCurt Bolton 8:45 a.m. Theory Issues/Plans Waelbroeck 9:55 a.m.Enabling R&D:Issues/Challenges/PlansStan Milora 11:05 a.m.HEDPIssues/Challenges/PlansGrant Logan 11:35 a.m.IFE Issues/Challenges/PlansMike Campbell 1:15 p.m.ITER ParticipationMichael Roberts Community Participation in the ITER Project Ned Sauthoff 3:15 p.m.ITER Physics and Burning Plasma Program Panel Discussion: Members – Stewart Prager (moderator), Steve Allen, Earl Marmar, Dale Meade, Gerry Navratil,Ned Sauthoff, Tony Taylor, Glenn Wurden

6. ITER Outyear Funding Profile 200646.03.549.5 2007130.016.0146.0 2008182.018.8200.8 2009191.016.5207.5 2010189.010.3199.3 2011151.09.3160.3 2012120.06.2126.2 2013 29.0 3.4 32.4 Total1,038.084.01,122.0 U.S. Contributions to ITER - Annual Profile ($ in Millions – in as spent dollars) *Discussions are under way about whether ITER Preparations funding in FY 2006 of $6M should be accounted for within the ITER Total Project Cost (TPC). * Fiscal Year Total Estimated Costs (TEC) Other Project Costs (OPC) Total Project Costs (TPC)

7. Three Cases Considered for FY 06 - 07 FY 05 FY 06FY 07 Case 2 (Constrained) 17 weeks 12 weeks Case 3 (Optimized) 17 weeks Case 1 (Base - Low) 17 weeks 12 weeks Case 1- Base case causes delay of eight months in experimental progress Case 2- Constrained case allows steady experimental progress Case 3- Optimized case allows good facility utilization and future investments