Striving for Excellence on NSTX

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Striving for Excellence on NSTX

• Run Assessment Meeting
• R. J. Hawryluk
• July 28, 2006

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Striving for ExcellenceAn Accident-Free
Workplace is Possible
FY05 Results

• Total Recordable Case Rate
• 4 TRC Cases in FY05
• FY05 Case Rate 0.93
• FY06 Goal lt0.76
• 5 FY06 TRC Cases thru 7/27/06
• FY06 Case Rate 1.47

• DART Case Rate
• 1 DART Case in FY05
• FY05 Case Rate 0.23
• FY06 Goal lt 0.3
• 1 FY06 DART Case thru 7/27/06
• FY06 Case Rate 0.29

FY06 Goals
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Safety is a Daily Responsibility

• Continually improve our communication on safety
  issues and expectations
• 830 am meeting comments by Al
• Hold Pre and Post-Job Briefings
• Let us know what are the issues
• Minimize workplace hazards and integration of
  safety considerations into work control systems
• Use Job Hazard Analyses (JHA)
• Attend and provide Training

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Annual Laboratory Evaluation

• DOE evaluates PPPL each year
• FY05 PPPL rated as outstanding
• Congressional perception - everyone gets
  outstanding
• New process this year (FY06)
• Revised criteria - more emphasis on world leading
  science
• Compared against ten other science labs
• Review at the Ray Orbach level
• Mid-term facilities review in September
• Input to Labs evaluation

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Examples of FY06 Scientific and Project
Evaluation Criteria

• Recognition in community as world leading
• Number of invited talks, citations
• Output quantity of research
• - number of publications
• Awards (e.g. national recognition)
• Leadership positions (in community, academy
  panels, etc)
• Extent of collaborations
• Effectiveness and timeliness of meeting goals and
  milestones
• Availability, reliability, and efficiency of
  facilities
• - NSTX

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What Do We Need to Do to Make NSTX the Facility
of Choice for Research on Fusion?

• Program Coordination.
• Scheduling, allocation of time, and
  performance/completion of Experimental Proposals
  (XPs).
• Publishing the results of high impact experiments
  in a timely fashion.
• How can we make an even greater impact on fusion
  and plasma science?
• Collaborations Collaborator Support.
• PPPL support of collaborator effort
• How can we do better? 
• Run Schedule.
• Coordination of start up activities, run versus
  maintenance time, layout of the run day.  
• Resource allocation to achieve world leading
  research within our financial constraints.
• Run Staffing and Equipment/Spare Part needs.
• Upgrades