DIII-D in the News DIII-D in the NewsThe latest advances and achievements at DIII-D Press Release: A Novel Path to High Performance Fusion Plasma: Real-Time Adaptive Control Press Release: Triple Play: Managing ELMs for Efficient Fusion Energy Press Release: Stopping off-the-wall behavior in fusion reactors Nature Family Article: Discovering tungsten-based composites as plasma facing materials for future high-duty cycle nuclear fusion reactors (Marchhart et al.) Press Release: GA Scientists Achieve Key Requirement for Economic Fusion Energy Press: DIII-D gets supercomputing access through the DOE’s high-speed data network Media: Scientists working on clean energy by recreating the sun in a San Diego lab Press Release: DIII-D National Fusion Facility, NERSC, and ESnet Collaboration Speeds Nuclear Fusion Research Press: Upgrades in place, San Diego’s nuclear fusion facility is back up and running Press: DIII-D, San Diego’s Nuclear Fusion Lab, is Back Online After Nearly a Year Press: DIII-D upgrades to shape the future of magnetic fusion energy research Nature Portfolio Article: Highest fusion performance without harmful edge energy bursts in tokamak (Kim et al.) Press Release: DIII-D National Fusion Facility Completes Upgrade Press: Overcoming Limits -- Two Seconds of Hope for Fusion Power Press: Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles Nature Article: A high-density and high-confinement tokamak plasma regime for fusion energy (Ding et al.) Media: Scientists: A.I. Could Help Create Limitless Clean Energy Press Release: Engineers use AI to wrangle fusion power for the grid Nature Article: Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning (Seo et al.) Media: Fusion Reactor Promises Limitless Energy FES Science Highlights: Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance (Nelson et al.) Publication: DIII-D's role as a national user facility in enabling the commercialization of fusion energy (Buttery et al.) FES Science Highlights: Opening the Magnetic Bottle of a Tokamak Causes Particles to Rush Inward (Logan et al.) FES Science Highlights: Researchers Visualize Energetic Ion Flow in Fusion Devices (Du et al.) FES Science Highlights: Islands That Move Together, Disrupt Together (Bardoczi et al.) Press Release: The Contrarian: Counterintuitive methods improve fusion plasma performance Press Release: Flipping Plasma Geometry at DIII-D Demonstrates Stable Pathway to Practical Fusion Energy Press Release: University-national laboratory collaboration receives DOE Fusion Energy Sciences award to advance spin-polarized fusion at DIII-D, aiming to increase power output by greater than 50% Press Release: DIII-D National Fusion Facility Completes Record-Breaking 1,600-Hour Research Campaign FES Science Highlights: Resistance in Walls Can Cause Disruptive Energy Loss (Strauss et al.) FES Science Highlights: Tokamak Experiments Provide Unique Data for Validating Spacecraft Heat Shield Ablation Models (Orlov et al.) Press Release: DIII-D National Fusion Facility Completes Highest-Powered Negative Triangularity Experiments in History of U.S. Fusion Research Program FES Science Highlights: Blowing Dust to Cool Fusion Plasmas (Effenberg et al.) Press Release: Taking A New Angle to Boost Plasma Performance in Advanced Tokamaks Press Release: In Their Own Words: Fusion Researchers Highlight Opportunities at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility Press Release: Scientists Demonstrate Technique to Protect Fusion Devices from Sudden Energy Loss Press Release: DIII-D National Fusion Facility Adds Capability to Rapidly Test Key Fusion Science FES Science Highlights: Researchers Stick Out Their Necks to Understand How Fusion Plasmas Fuel Up (Rosenthal et al.) FES Science Highlights: Taming the Plasma Edge: Reducing Instabilities in Tokamaks (Burrell et al.) FES Science Highlights: Avoiding Chains of Magnetic Islands May Lead to Fusion Paradise (Bardoczi et al.) FES Science Highlights: For Plasma with a Hot Core and Cool Edges, Super-H Mode Shows Promise (Wilks et al.) Press Release: DIII-D Facility Adds Tool to Resolve Heat Handling in Future Fusion Power Plants Press: Nuclear fusion energy device at General Atomics coming back online