Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Foreign Travel Trip Report Trip Report Part 1Travel To: Culham, England Report Date: 1/24/2009 Dates of Travel: 13-18 Sept, 2003 Traveler Information (All travelers on this trip) Last Name First Name Middle Name Position/Title of Traveler Neumeyer Charles L NSTX Project Engineer Bell Michael NSTX Experimental Reseach Ops Division Head Medley Sid PPPL Researcher Manickam Jandardhan PPPL Researcher
Employing Organization: Employment Address: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Post Office Box 451 Princeton, NJ 08543
Trip Itinerary FTMS Trip Number 200342089 Destination/Organization Facility Oxford, Culham Science England/UKAEA Center
Facility Address Culham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom
Primary Topic (include justification from Foreign Travel Request) 9th Spherical Torus Workshop Highlights/Benefits of Trip, People Contacted, Results of meetings or discussions, facilities visited and their locations C Neumeyer et al attended the 9 th Spherical Torus Workshop, and presented two talks. Workshop consisted of 30 presentations by researchers from around the world involved in research on the spherical torus magnetic confinement scheme for plasma physics and fusion energy.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Foreign Travel Trip Report Trip Report Part 2 Travel to: Culham, England Report Date: 1/24/2009
Dates of Travel 13/09/03-18/09/03
C Neumeyer et al attended the 9 th Spherical Torus Workshop, and presented two talks. Workshop consisted of 30 presentations by researchers from around the world involved in research on the spherical torus magnetic confinement scheme for plasma physics and fusion energy. Workshop schedule and presentations follows. Monday 15th September 2003. Briscoe, Frank UKAEA Culham “Welcome and opening” Sykes, Alan UKAEA Culham “Workshop organization” Bell, Michael “PPPL Overview of NSTX Research and Plans” Lloyd, Brian UKAEA Culham “Recent results from MAST” He, Yexi Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University “SUNIST: Initial operation and experiment” Gusev, Vasily IOFFE Institute “Results from the Globus-M tokamak” Peng, Martin Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory “Transport Barrier Properties of NSTX Plasmas” Field, AnthonyUKAEA Culham “ITBs in MAST” Kirk, Andrew UKAEA Culham “Pedestal and ELM Studies on MAST” Manickam, Janardhan Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory “Influence of kinetic effects on ballooning stability in NSTX” Shaing, K. C. University of Wisconsin “Plasma flow and confinement in the vicinity of a rotating island” Medley, Sid Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory “Accelerated MHD-induced Ion Loss in NSTX H-mode Discharges”
9:00 9:15 9:20-9:50 10:00-10:30 11:10-11:40
11:50-12:20 14:00-14:20 14:25-14:45 14:50-15:10 15:35-16:05
16:15-16:35 16:40-17:00
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Foreign Travel Trip Report 17:30 MAST tour
Tuesday 16th September 2003. 9:00-9:45 Katsurai, Makoto Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo “Experimental studies on co-helicity and counter-helicity mergings of various types of spherical tori in external toroidal fields in TS-4 device” Garstka, Greg University of Wisconsin “Recent Results and the Path to High Beta on the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment” Saveliev, Alexandr Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg “EBW CD start-up scenario for MAST” Cairns, Alan University of St Andrews “Bernstein mode heating and current drive” Yavorskii, Victor University of Innsbruck “Poloidal ripple induced non-adiabaticity of NBI ions in STs” Takase, Yuichi Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo “Solenoidless Start-up Experiments on the TST-2 spherical tokamak” Dnestrovskij, Alexei Kurchatov Institute, Moscow “Bv ramp up effect in MAST” Smith, Roger University of Washington “Recent Results on the HIT-II Spherical Torus Experiment” Counsell, Glenn UKAEA Culham “Exhaust Physics in STs” Lehane, Ian UKAEA Culham “Snake studies on MAST” Patel, Ash UKAEA Culham “Multichord Zeff measurements and transport simulations in the MAST spherical tokamak” Ribeiro, Celso UKAEA Culham “Pellet injection in MAST”
10:00-10:30
11:10-11:30 11:35-11:55 12:00-12:20 14:00-14:30
14:40-15:00 15:05-15:25 15:50-16:20 16:30-16:50 16:55-17:15
17:20-17:40
Wednesday 17th September 2003. 9:00-9:30 Peng, Martin Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory “NSTX Contributions to the FESAC Fusion Energy Sciences Development Plan”
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Foreign Travel Trip Report 9:40-10:00 10:05-10:25 10:50-11:20 Neumeyer, Charles Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory “NSTX TF Joint Re-Design” Sykes, Alan UKAEA Culham MAST facility in 2004 Mineev, Anatoly Efremov Institute, St. Petersburg “Development of the JUST-T concept (VNS tokamak for minor actines transmutation with A=2)” Walsh, Mike UKAEA Culham “Development of the TS diagnostics on MAST” Mancuso, AlessandroAssociazone Euratom-ENEA sulla Fusione “Status of the PROTO-SPHERA Proposal” Neumeyer, Charles Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory “Design Point Studies for Future ST Devices” Voss, Gary UKAEA Culham “A Component Test Facility (CTF) Based on the Spherical Tokamak” Sykes, Alan UKAEA Culham “Closing”
11:30-12:00 12:10-12:30 14:00-14:30 14:40-15:10 15:30
Observations, Conclusions, Speculations & Information relating to Safety, Health & Security of Future Travelers None Total Cost to DOE Non-DOE Funding Amount $2133.42 $0