Overview of results from the 2023 DIII-D negative triangularity campaign

KE Thome, ME Austin, A Hyatt, A Marinoni… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Negative triangularity (NT) is a potentially transformative configuration for tokamak-based
fusion energy with its high-performance core, edge localized mode (ELM)-free edge, and …

Characterization and controllability of radiated power via extrinsic impurity seeding in strongly negative triangularity plasmas in DIII-D

D Eldon, L Casali, I Bykov, C Chrystal… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments with extrinsic impurity seeding in strongly negative triangularity shapes in DIII-D
achieved radiated power fractions (relative to input power) of up to≈ 85% total radiation …

Power handling in a highly-radiative negative triangularity pilot plant

MA Miller, D Arnold, M Wigram… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This work explores detailed power handling solutions for a class of high-field, highly-
radiative negative triangularity (NT) reactors based around the MANTA concept (Rutherford …

First access to ELM-free negative triangularity at low aspect ratio

AO Nelson, C Vincent, H Anand, J Lovell… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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MHD stability analysis against pressure and current-driven modes in the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak

J Dominguez-Palacios, M Garcia-Munoz… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations for the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak
(SMART) have been carried out for the first time, for both positive (PT) and negative …

Characterizing the negative triangularity reactor core operating space with integrated modeling

HS Wilson, AO Nelson, J McClenaghan… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Negative triangularity (NT) has received renewed interest as a fusion reactor regime due to
its beneficial power-handling properties, including low scrape-off layer power and a larger …

Effect of rotation on negative triangularity plasmas in DIII-D

C Chrystal, ME Austin, T Odstrcil… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
At the DIII-D tokamak, plasmas with negative triangularity (NT) have been found to have
similar energy confinement times as H-mode plasmas with positive triangularity. These NT …

How does negative triangularity mitigate ITG turbulence and transport?

R Singh, PH Diamond, A Marinoni - Nuclear Fusion, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Improved confinement in negative triangularity (NT) experiments is attributed to reduced
fluxes driven by micro-turbulence. The physical mechanism of why thermal confinement …

Infernal instabilities in negative-triangularity plasmas with negative central shear

X Zhang, L Li, Y Liu, Z Dong, J Li, Y Liang… - Nuclear …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
A systematic numerical investigation is carried out to understand magnetohydrodynamic
stability of the ideal infernal-kink instability in tokamak plasmas with both negative …

Electromagnetic System Conceptual Design for a Negative Triangularity Tokamak

S Guizzo, MA Drabinskiy, C Hansen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Negative triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations have several key benefits including
sufficient core confinement, improved power handling, and reduced edge pressure …