Theme 01 ChitID 01.001 Tony Peebles 6/08/2009 11:04 Theme 01 The "Diagnostic Table" is too positive for existing devices - it seems to imply there are very few needs and that measurements are accurate. This is generally not the case on existing devices. I understand the need to provide contrast with the future. Howevr, I think the readiness box needs to be ALL yellow. However, I agree that the "Major Gaps" are in ITER and follow-up DEMO. ChitID 01.002 Richard Buttery 6/08/2009 11:05 Theme 01 Consideration should be given to narrow proposed priority topics for US from "can do" to "should do" ChitID 01.003 Tony Taylor 6/08/2009 11:06 Theme 01 The Theme presentations were organized around the Panels. There are a number of issues that were presented as HIGH PRIORITY or HIGH IMPACT from the panesl that are missing from the thrusts. The question is are these missing from the thrusts as a result of priority decisions, or, as a result of unintended omission? There was significant discussion on the panels. How much discussion has there been on the themes? In particular in Theme 1, there was a panel on confinement issues and an panel on scenarios and heating and current drive. I understand that thrust 4 was to cover the high priority items from these two panels. The thrust seems NOT to include issues on confinement. ChitID 01.004 Martin Peng 6/08/2009 13:14 Theme 01 Theme 4 presentation and write-up contain R&D goals, the success of which will depend very much on the success of disruption avoidance and mitigation research in Themes 1 and 2. This points to the need to raise the importance of, or at least clearly include, disruption avoidance and mitigation in some research thursts from Themes 1 and 2.