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General PSD Management meeting

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Meeting ID: 620 2845 6506

PW: PSD2024

PSD-2026.01.15-psd-man-Wischmeier.pdf
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General:
-    Weekly meetings with PLs to be reestablished.
-    Comments to STAC highly appreciated. John Holden is working on final document.
-    GA on 22 January (remotely held) is to approve Work Plan.
-    Some communications between F4E and the commission for possible transfer of budget.
-    Recommendation procedure is expected on Pilot Plant A and B
-    European Commission want to publish strategy on Q1/Q2 2026
-    Possible underspending: Discussion of priorities during GA in April.  Assessment of delayed 21-25 projects in September followed by GA in October. 
-    Further Topics proposals for pre-meeting to be sent to PSD_CO mailing list (so that Marco, Botond, Joao receive it) by end of next week.
-    Spring Project Board – Similar structure to past meetings is foreseen
-    ITER MOU – Technical specifications on Physics Gaps document was circulated which should serve as a blue print for other areas
o    IO nominations for Coordinating Committee are pending – it will be 2/3 people. In case it is 3, EUROfusion is likely to propose another member as well.
-    On the Physics Gaps where Marco is the contact point he will always delegate to PLs/TFLs.
-    Further details and topics in the presentation
WPTE:
-    Budget is available on IMS but request of discussion with Marco before implementation of the call participation selection. Botond should be present in this meeting as well.
-    Further details and topics in the presentation
WPPWIE:
-    Tests of Tungsten coatings for ITER were done with transient heat loads and now tests will be done with plasma (starting next week). It should be highlighted the importance of the fact that EUROfusion is supporting the selection of ITER wall coatings.
-    LID-QMS tests are planned following the work on JET
-    Meeting on LIBS and LID-QMS was held at the end of last year.
-    International Missions to Rokkasho (under PWIE) - Richard should be warned by email if there are mission requests pending for which approval is time critical. 
-    Reporting on Grant Deliverables has been sped up.
-    Subproject leaders are providing level 3 reports.
-    Marco stated that between the two it is the Grant Deliverables that have higher priority.
WPSTEL:
-    Campaigns in 2026/2027 are to run back to back with a short Christmas break.
-    Do remember that there’s a one team approach. 
-    W7-X TFL names will be included in the slides after the meeting.
-    IPP plans to develop a modular, flexible middle divertor section for W7-X to enable iterative testing of different geometries and plasma-facing materials without multi-year downtime.
-    Initial plan is to replace three divertors in W7X to test some of the solutions (for instance reducing overload of middle divertor). The replacement is provisionary planned for the opening break 2027-2028
WPTM: 
-    Work plan revised.
-    Coordination meeting with PIs set up (Wednesday 11.00-12.00) to help with data validation and exchanges with experimental activities.
-    Wiki was set up. But IDM, pinboard and indico and SharePoint need to be set up.
-    Review of TSVVs yesterday – very good both participation (150+) and quality of reports.
-    Push for required JET data to be made available on IMAS
-    In WPTM the idea for the relevant activities is to have an initial validation on TSVVs followed by continued work on the WPs.
-    E-TASC General Planning Meeting – Presentations from PLs/TFLs. US and private companies representatives will attend the meeting.
o    Regarding private companies the objective is to get information from them.
o    Panel of PLs/TFLs at the meeting. 
o    Key deliverables in the next two years to introduce work package so that 
o    Each WP should provide Marco 1-2 slides to show high level 2026-2027 objectives. So that the WP presentations can then be focused on more detailed technical/scientific work .
-    3rd IAEA Third Technical Meeting on Long-Pulse Operation of Fusion Devices is scheduled for the 20-23 October 
-    SharePoint request for multiple work packages
WPSA:
-    There are spare mirrors for the VUV system in Japan that can be issued to replace what was damaged on transit. This substitution should take no more than a day. The system arrived in Naka yesterday and the analysis what happened is still ongoing.
-    MGI problems will not impact scientific operations given that this system is planned to be used only for experiments and not for machine protection.

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