From: Timothy N. Stevenson Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:43 PM To: Alfred von Halle Cc: Mike Williams; Ronald L. Strykowsky; Erik D. Perry; Mark B. Cropper; John W. Edwards; Thomas E. Egebo; Masayuki Ono; Mike Viola; Martin Denault; Kelsey Tresemer; Neway Atnafu; William R. Blanchard; S. Ramakrishnan; Guy Rossi; Tiana Dodson; Kristopher R. Gilton; John Winkelman; Brian Clark; Guy Grow; Lawrence E. Dudek; Bob Simmons; Orlando Guzman; Victor Garzotto; George Ascione; Keith R. Rule; Maria L. Pueyo; Patricia M. Bruno; Robert A. Hitchner; Richard (Pete) Szaro; Richard J. Van Kirk Subject: NBI Upgrade Weekly Status 8/19/11 Al NBI Upgrade: VV reinforcement analysis and optimization continued this week and another meeting was held to evaluate results. Areas with stress concentrations have been narrowed significantly with only minor details remaining. Another set of changes will be evaluated. Effort continues on reviewing, finalizing, and approving drawings. Shop orders have been submitted to start additional work. NTC Platform column fabrication is in progress. Requisitions were prepared and approved for controls hardware. CAM interviews are in progress. NBI Refurbishment: Refurbishment activity continued in the Test Cell. The 90 inch flange reassembly has been completed. Plans for leak checking are being developed. The ion dump fabrication stand materials have been ordered. Water manifold material has been received. Material and parts have been ordered to fabricate assemblies to upgrade the calorimeter. Regards, Tim Timothy N. Stevenson NBI Project Manager Head of Office of Project Management Head of Experimental Heating Systems & Neutral Beam Operations LSB 316 C Site Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton University P.O. Box 451 Princeton, NJ 08543 Office (609) 243-2657 FAX (609) 243-3248 email: tstevenson@pppl.gov Skypager # : 2047351 You can visit the home page of the DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at http://www.pppl.gov