ITER-TBM COSTING ACTIVITY MEETING
12-14 December 2005
UCLA, Rice Room, 6764 Boelter Hall
Agenda

Monday, December 12

Welcome

9:00 am 20 min Abdou Welcome and meeting goals
20 min Mann Proposed costing report outline
20 min Discussions / Questions
Note: Mission statement, TBM goals, and TBM experimental plan in ITER will be deferred until Wednesday. They have been discussed before and are posted on the Web. The focus of the meeting needs to be on details of costing.

DCLL Design, Engineering, Fabrication (the deliverables for test module and ancillary equipment) and Costing

Session Chairs: Wong, Malang

10:00 am 60 min Wong DCLL Design and Costing
(Mo Dagher’s presentation)
(Greg Sviatoslavsky’s presentation)
(Mohamed Sawan’s presentation)
(Sergey Smolentsev’s presentation)
(Shahram Sharafat’s presentation)
10 min BREAK
20 min Wong DCLL He Loops Design and Fabrication Plan and Cost
30 min Pint DCLL PbLi Loops Design and Fabrication Plan and Cost
10 min Discussion
12:10 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm 30 min Willms DCLL Tritium Processing Systems Design and Fabrication Plan and Cost
30 min Mann Comments/Guidance on Design Cost Estimates, Risk and Contingency
30 min ALL Discussion
15 min Break

Structural Material
(strategy, issues, and cost for ferritic structural materials for R&D, fabrication of mock-up/prototype, the deliverables, and fabrication of the ITER test module.)

Session chairs: Zinkle, Kurtz

3:15 pm 60 min Rowcliffe/Kurtz/Zinkle Structural materials
(Call-in number: 310-794-5058)

HCCB Design and Costing

Session Chairs: Ying, Willms

4:15 pm 30 min Ying HCCB TBM Design and Fabrication Plan and Cost Estimate
20 min Calderoni HCCB Ancillary Systems Design and Fabrication Plan and Cost
10 min Mann Comments/Guidance on Design Cost Estimates, Risk and Contingency
30 min ALL Discussion
5:45 pm Adjourn
6:30 pm Dinner

Tuesday, December 13

Qualification and Safety Report

Session Chairs: Merrill, Tanaka

9:00 am 30 min Merrill Qualification and safety plan and cost
5 min Mann Comments/Guidance on Design Cost Estimates, Risk and Contingency
10 min ALL Discussion

R&D Evaluations

(Please review R&D evaluation tables giving all comments and evaluations for individual R&D)

Is it clear what information/data each R&D task is trying to deliver? And by what date?
Is there consensus on details of the work proposed?
Is there consensus on evaluations of the need for each task?
Are the supplied cost forms adequate?

DCLL R&D Evaluation

Session Chairs: Morley, Mann

9:45 am 45 min Morley DCLL R&D Tasks Summary
(Evaluations Summary Table)
30 min Smolentsev MHD R&D Tasks – Detailed Plan and Cost
15 min BREAK
15 min Abdou VTBM
Other controversial ones? Mockups?
30 min Fogarty/Tanaka Mock-ups and prototype testing (Tanaka)
TBM Mockup Facility (Fogarty)
12:00 pm Lunch
1:15 pm 30 min Mann Comments/Guidance on Cost Estimates and Contingency for each task
30 min ALL Discussion

HCCB R&D Evaluations

Session Chairs: Sawan, Kurtz

2:15 pm 45 min Ying HCCB R&D Tasks and Costs Summary
10 min Mann Comments/Guidance on Cost Estimates and Contingency
15 min ALL Discussion

Costing Report Preparation

Session Chairs: Mann, Sawan

3:30 pm 30 min Mann Schedule, Costing estimating Approach and Guidelines – Summary
10 min Mann Cost Report Outline Recap
60 min ALL Discussion of overall plan and report – how to handle ITER/TBM interface and
10 min Mann Writing assignments
5:20 pm ADJOURN

Evening Discussion among cost coordinators
Subgroup meetings as needed (cost coordinates will meet separately to prepare summary)

Wednesday, December 14

Session Chairs: Abdou, Mann

9:00 am 60 min ALL Discussions on key issues and follow-up on topics left on Monday & Tuesday
10:00 am 60 min ALL Summary Conference Call(Nardella, Milora, and Petti will join via phone.)
(Call-in number: 301-903-6496)
11:00 am 60 min ALL VLT Conference call participation / ITER negotiation report
12:30 pm Discussion
1:00 pm Adjourn