DIII-D Research Highlights and Press Releases
2023 Press Releases
DIII-D National Fusion Facility Completes Highest-Powered Negative Triangularity Experiments in History of U.S. Fusion Research Program
2023 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science Highlights
Resistance in Walls Can Cause Disruptive Energy Loss
Stuck in the Rough: How Aging Reactor Walls May Exhibit Lower Erosion
Tokamak Experiments Provide Unique Data for Validating Spacecraft Heat Shield Ablation Models
2022 Press Releases
In Their Own Words: Fusion Researchers Highlight Opportunities at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility
Scientists Demonstrate Technique to Protect Fusion Devices from Sudden Energy Loss
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur Tours DIII-D National Fusion Facility
DIII-D National Fusion Facility Adds Capability to Rapidly Test Key Fusion Science
DIII-D Facility Adds Tool to Resolve Heat Handling in Future Fusion Power Plants
2022 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science Highlights
For Plasma with a Hot Core and Cool Edges, Super-H Mode Shows Promise
Researchers Stick Out Their Necks to Understand How Fusion Plasmas Fuel Up
Avoiding Chains of Magnetic Islands May Lead to Fusion Paradise
Blowing Dust to Cool Fusion Plasmas
Taming the Plasma Edge: Reducing Instabilities in Tokamaks
2021 APS-DPP Conference Press Releases
Integrating Hot Cores and Cool Edges in Fusion Reactors
Feeling the Heat: Fusion Reactors used to Test Spacecraft Heat Shields
Visualizing the Microscopic World of Fast Ions in Fusion Devices
2021 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science Highlights
Illuminating Magnetic Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas
Fast Flows Prevent Buildup of Impurities on the Edge of Tokamak Plasmas
U.S. Researchers Simulate Compact Fusion Power Plant Concept
Keeping it Cool while Maintaining Core Performance
2020 APS-DPP Conference Press Releases
Taming Fusion Plasmas with Ice Cubes and Diamond Shells - Val Izzo
Turbulent Relationship: Understanding the Mysterious Hydrogen “Isotope Effect” in Fusion Experiments - Emily Belli
Keeping it Cool in all the Right Places is Key for Fusion Energy - Huiqiang Wang
2020
DIII-D Scientists to Work with PPPL to Find a Path to Sustained Fusion Energy
Press Release
GA Researcher Named Fellow of the American Physical Society
Press Release
Keeping it Cool While Maintaining Core Performance
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An Innovation for Fusion Device Walls May Have Unexpected Benefits for the Core
Office of Science Highlight
DIII-D Scientists Identify New Peaks in Fusion Power
Office of Science Highlight
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Researchers at DIII-D Discover Mechanism to Improve Feasibility of Fusion Reactors
Press Release
DIII-D Scientists Unravel Challenge in Improving Fusion Performance
Press Release
DIII-D Scientists Solve Key Challenge for Controlling “Runaway” Electrons in Fusion Plasmas
Press Release
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Moving on up to the Top
Office of Science Highlight
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DIII-D Researchers Use Machine Learning to Steer Fusion Plasmas Near Operational Limits
2019 APS-DPP Conference Press Releases
Island Retreat: Fuel Injection Helps Reduce Magnetic Island Instabilities - Laszlo Bardoczi
New Insights Could Help Tame Speedy Ions in Fusion Plasmas - Kathreen Thome
Taking New Angle to Enable More Efficient, Compact Fusion Power Plants - Xi Chen
2019
Island Retreat: Pellets Help Remove Magnetic Island Instabilities
Slow Your Roll - Scientists at DIII-D Gain Insight into Controlling Fusion Products
Unraveling how Tungsten Armor Erodes in Tokamaks during Intense Plasma Bursts
DIII-D Scientists Develop Technology to Improve Feasibility of Fusion Reactors
DIII-D Scientists Pinpoint Mechanism Responsible for Wall Erosion in Fusion Devices
GA Researcher Honored for Career Achievement in Fusion Science
Recent Breakthrough on DIII-D Enables Major Step Toward Economical Fusion Energy
DIII-D National Fusion Program Completes Year-Long Facility Upgrade
Flipping the Script with Reverse D-Shaped Plasmas
Office of Science Highlight
Understanding and Control of High-Z Material Erosion in Tokamaks with a Mixed-Materials Environment
Disruption Mitigation through Shell Pellet Impurity Injection
Office of Science Highlight
APS 2018 Press Releases
Inside Job: A New Technique to Cool a Fusion Reactor
Taming Plasmas: Improving Fusion using Microwaves
2018 SULI students
SULI Participation Highlights Summer 2018
2018
Not All Ions in Tokamaks Go with the Flow
Steady as she goes
Neutral Particle Beams Work Better by Working Smarter
Office of Science Highlight
GA Establishes Memorial Website for Fusion Pioneer Tihiro Ohkawa
Small three-dimensional magnetic fields lead to big changes in fusion plasma turbulence
Seeing all the Colors of the Plasma Wind
Office of Science Highlight
DIII-D National Fusion Facility Begins Transformation to Prepare for Future Reactors
Whistling While You Work: Fusion Scientists Find Inspiration in Earth’s Ionosphere
Office of Science Highlight
Physics of increased Electron Turbulence at the Edge of Non-ELMing High-Performance Plasmas on DIII-D
APS 2017 Press Releases
Precise navigation brings plasma experiment to high fusion performance
Seeing all the Colors of the Plasma Wind
Fusion Scientists Find Inspiration in Earth’s Ionosphere
2017
Microwaves Can Plug Leaks in Fusion Plasmas
Office of Science Highlight
Supercomputers Provide Fusion Researchers with Fast-Turnaround 3D Magnetic Field Spectral Data
Fast Ion Transport in DIII-D Fusion Plasmas Clarified by Massively Parallel Simulations
Accelerated Progress Towards Fusion Energy Through US/China Partnership
PPPL and GA Team Up to Make TRANSP Widely Available
Microwave Power Scattering by Plasma Fluctuations
Exploring the Effect of Rotation on Tokamak Plasma Response to Three-Dimensional Magnetic Perturbations
Exciting Results on Exciting Waves in Plasmas
Toward Improving Performance and Fueling in High Power Tokamak Plasmas
Microwave Heating Can Control Alfvén Waves in Fusion Plasmas
New Physics Understanding Provides Attractive Path for Developing Fusion Energy via a Steady-State Tokamak
Office of Science Highlight
Simulations Elucidate Attractive Fusion Power Operation Regime (FES Release)
Turbulence “Hot Spots” Near Tokamak Plasma Boundary Produced by Small Applied Fields (FES Release)
Plasma Turbulence Generates Flow in Fusion Reactors
Office of Science Highlight
2016:
The DIII-D “Super Supply:” Part of a US/China Partnership to Accelerate Fusion Energy Development (FES release)
First Heterodyne CO2 Laser Based Dispersion Interferometer Measurements Made on DIII-D (FES Release)
Gamma Ray Camera Offers New View on Ultra-high Energy Electrons in Plasma (APS-DPP Press Release)
Fixing deficits in boundary plasma models (APS-DPP Press Release)
Extinguishing a fusion fire in a flash of light (APS-DPP Press Release; FES Release)
Plasma Turbulence Helps Fusion Along (APS-DPP Press Release; FES Release)
Breakthrough Work at GA Enables Greater Control of Fusion Energy (APS-DPP Press Release)
Tokamak error fields minimized using an adaptive control method
- PPCF “Lab talk” article - used as FES highlight, and in progress for ITER newsline
SULI students complete projects in many fields of research at DIII-D
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DIII-D Insights Concerning Wave-particle Interactions in Tokamaks Promote Confidence in ITER (Physics Today; FES Release)
Unique Particle Beams Bring Plasma Control and Fusion Experiments to New Heights (FES Release)
Discovery of Stationary Operation of Quiescent H-mode Plasmas with Net-Zero NBI Torque and High Energy Confinement (FES Release)
2015:
USBPO Newsletter, Oct 2015: Image of the Month:
SPI Runaway Mitigation
Controlling Edge Localized Modes with the Lithium Granules on DIII-D
A little drop will do it: Tiny grains of lithium can dramatically improve the performance of fusion plasmas
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) students success stories
Taming edge instabilities in helium plasmas to enhance ITER safety
Gas puffing to eliminate hot spots in future fusion-energy reactors
An improved edge plasma for large, ITER-scale fusion energy devices
"Stalking” Multiple Tearing Modes with Microwave Beams to Safeguard ITER Fusion Plasmas
Want Fusion Performance? Alfvén Eigenmodes Say Not So Fast
Daring Move for First U.S.-China Fusion Team
Mixing an icy cocktail to safely cool a hot plasma
Impact of Particle Motion on Three Dimensional Tokamak Equilibrium
2014:
Encouraging results from new Test Blanket Module mock-up for ITER
Plasma Experiment Demonstrates Admirable Self-Control
2-D Reconstruction of Electron Characteristics Using Divertor Thomson scattering
Calming the Plasma Edge: the Tail that Wags the Dog
New experiments control density in the core of a fusion plasma using radio waves
Joint DIII-D/EAST experiment on high βP scenario optimization
Multi-Mode Tearing Suppression on DIII-D
Reduction and elimination of edge instabilities in high performance, steady-state fusion plasmas
2013:
Lifting Fusion Power onto an (Optimized) Pedestal
Radiating fusion power in all the right ways
Tossed on the Waves: Charting the Path of Ejected Particles
Studying Micro-Climate Weather in a Working Model of a Fusion Reactor
Articles
USBPO Newsletter pages 3-5: The DIII-D high beta-p scenario and extrapolations to ITER steady-state operation, by J. McClenaghan 1, A.M. Garofalo 1
Press Releases
APS Virtual Pressroom
[[http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2016/ | 2016]]
A Turbulent Solution to a Growing Problem
Extinguishing a Fusion Fire in a Flash of Light
Fixing Deficits in Boundary Plasma Models
Gamma Ray Camera Offers New View on Ultra-High Energy Electrons in Plasma
GA Breakthrough Enables Greater Control of Fusion Energy
[[http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2015/ 2015]]
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2015/upload/garofalo.pdf Daring Move for First U.S.-China Fusion Team
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2015/upload/logan.pdf Striking the right note on a magnetic violin
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2015/upload/shiraki.pdf Mixing an icy cocktail to safely cool hot plasma
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2015/upload/solomon.pdf New Super H-mode regime could greatly increase fusion power
[[http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2014/ 2014]]
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2014/upload/ernst.pdf Using radio waves to control density in fusion plasma
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2014/upload/jackson.pdf Calming the Plasma Edge: The Tail that Wags the Dog
[[http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2013/ 2013]]
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2013/upload/tobias.pdf Using Airport Screening Technology to Visualize Waves in Fusion Plasma
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2013/upload/snyder.pdf Lifting Fusion Power onto an (Optimized) Pedestal
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2013/upload/garofalo.pdf Plasma Experiment Demonstrates Admirable Self-Control
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2013/upload/granetz-eidietis.pdf Putting a New Spin on Tokamak Disruptions
http://www.aps.org/units/dpp/meetings/vpr/2013/upload/chen.pdf Tossed on the Waves: Charting the Path of Ejected Particles