DIII-D National Fusion Facility Completes Upgrade
San Diego, CA, May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The DIII-D National Fusion Facility has completed a series of important enhancements, providing researchers with several first-of-a-kind tools for controlling and understanding the function of fusion plasmas.
- San Diego, CA, May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The DIII-D National Fusion Facility has completed a series of important enhancements, providing researchers with several first-of-a-kind tools for controlling and understanding the function of fusion plasmas.
- The facility has been offline since July 2023 as a multi-institutional team of engineers and technicians worked to install new capabilities.
- Together, the new technologies installed during the eight-month upgrade will play a key role in developing the scientific basis for fusion as a reliable and nearly limitless energy source.
- When experiments restart in May, researchers will use these tools to optimize the performance of fusion plasmas and help bring practical fusion energy closer to reality.