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DIII-D Highlights 2005

• February 2005: Successful Disruption Mitigation Without Neutral Penetration
• March 2005: Imaging Instability-Driven Transport
• April 2005: A Little "Magnetic Chaos" Relieves Tension in the Plasma Boundary
• May 2005: Measurements of Fast Ions Will Assist Understanding and Control of Burning Plasmas
• June 2005: Demonstration of Fully Noninductive, High Prformance Plasma in DIII-D
• August 2005: Hollow Current Improves Fusion Performance
• September 2005: Feedback Control of the Safety Factor Profile Evolution in DIII-D Advanced Tokamak Discharges

• Press Releases

47th American Physical Society Annual Meeting of Division of Plasma Physics
Denver, Colorado, United States, 2005

• Pushing the Pressure Envelope with Precise Real-Time Control
• Hollow Current Improves Fusion Performance
• A Little "Magnetic Chaos" Relieves Tension in the Plasma Boundary
• High-speed images capture ripples in edge of hot plasma
• Comparison Between Sawteeth Oscillations in Bean and Oval Shaped Plasmas
• Imaging 3D Plasma Instabilities to Validate Theory
• Interpretation of Core Localized Alfven Eigenmodes in DIII-D and JET Reversed Magnetic Shear Plasmas