Hutch Neilson

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Stellarator Team Meeting18 January 2012

Stellarator Program Update

Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

Topics

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• Recent developments. (M. Zarnstorff)

• FY-12 plans and status.

• Calendar

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Milestones for FY-12 (1)

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W7-X Trim Coils

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Milestones for FY-12 (2)

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W7-X Trim Coil Power Supplies

• PPPL work plan (WAF) review- Oct. 2011. ✓

• Conceptual Design Review. 5 January. ✓

• Choose technology (switching vs. rectifier bridge). 15 Feb.

• Preliminary Design Review, Final Design Review, Procurement / Fabrication

– Schedule to be updated after concept selection.

• Complete deliveries to IPP site.- 1 April 2014.

W7-X Physics Program: Research Preparations

• Define physics program and facilitate information transfer with W7-X (Gates)

• Arrange transfer of divertor and magnetic diagnostics info to PPPL (Gates, Lazerson)

• Benchmark HINT2-PIES against agreed upon W7-X equilibrium (Lazerson, Reiman)

• Modify PIES to allow non-stellarator symmetry (Lazerson, Reiman)

Stellarator Team Meeting / 18 January 2012 / H. Neilson

Milestones for FY-12 (3)

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LHD Collaboration Program

• Analysis of the results from the XICS diagnostic (Pablant)

• Upgrade of XICS camera (need to develop schedule based on detector availability)

• Transition STELLOPT based reconstruction of LHD equilibria into a production mode (Lazerson)

• Expt. proposals for 2012 campaign due @LHD. – Jan. 2012

• Submit proposals in response to expected DOE Solicitation. (March?)

• Collaboration on dust dynamics (proposed)

Stellarator Optimization

• System code development (Zolfaghari)

• STELLOPT/COILOPT modification (Ku, Breslau)

• CTH eddy current analysis (Zolfaghari)

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Milestones for FY-12 (4)

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Reconstruction (Lazerson)

• MSE Diagnostic Benchmark - 2/12 (ISHW)

• Equilibrium with Flow paper - 3/12

• LHD Coil Current Optimization - 4/12 (EPS)

• Non-Stellarator Symmetric PIES - 7/12

• Shielding Currents in PIES - 9/12 (APS)

• PIES/HINT2 Benchmarking Effort –TBD

XICS (Pablant)

• RSI paper in progress.

• Paper on physics interpretation in progress

• New detector: delivery from Dectris by August.

• In-house work on detector housing needs to start in April.

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Calendar

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29 Jan. – 3 Feb. ISHW-18, Canberra, Australia

1 February Abstract Deadline for TOFE-2012

31 January Draft IAEA Synopses to Advanced Projects Office

JanuaryLHD experimental proposals due (see D. Gates & http://www.lhd.nifs.ac.jp/en/ for procedures.)

8 February IAEA synopses to U.S. selection committee.

16 February Stellarator team meeting

15 March Stellarator team meeting

March? DOE-FES International Solicitation issued.

27-31 August TOFE-2012 Symposium, Nashville, TN

7-12 October IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, San Diego

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Agenda

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1:30 Program Update, Recent developments, etc. - H. Neilson

1:50 Stellarator Physics Update- D. Gates

2:10 Recent Progress and FY-12 plans3.1 Eddy current modeling for CTH (J. Hanson, Auburn U.)3.2 Stellarator System Code Development (A. Zolfaghari)3.2 STELLOPT/COILOPT modifications for maintainable designs (J. Breslau)X.X Any other topics (Please let me know.)

3:30 Adjourn