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Funding was once again extended for FY 2015, although the omnibus bill that provided the funding explicitly stated that no funding would be provided beyond FY 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fusionenergyleague.org/index.php/blog/article/fusion_budget_2015|title=Fusion Budget 2015: The Omnibus bill passed, Fusion budget lives to fight another year|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fusionfuture.org/|title=Information about FY2013 budget and Alcator C-Mod shutdown|publisher=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304185900/http://www.fusionfuture.org/|archivedate=2012-03-04|df=}}</ref>
In 2016 the project pressure reached 2.05 atmospheres – a 15 percent jump over the previous record of 1.77 atmospheres – with a plasma temperature of 35 million degrees C, sustaining fusion for 2 seconds, yielding 600 trillion fusion reactions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/renewable-energy-ecology/fusion-energy-record-pressure-16102016|title=New record gets us closer to fusion energy|last=ANDREI|first=MIHAI|date=2016-10-17|work=|newspaper=ZME Science|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-18|via=}}</ref> The run involved a 5.7 tesla magnetic field. It reached this milestone on its final day of operation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newatlas.com/nuclear-fusion-record/45932|title=Under pressure: New world record set on path to nuclear fusion|last=Franco|first=Michael|date=October 14, 2016|website=newatlas.com|publisher=|access-date=2016-10-18}}</ref>
Following completion of operations at the end of September, 2016, the facility has been placed into safe shutdown, with no additional experiments planned at this time. There is a wealth of data archived from the more than 20 years of operations, and the experimental and theoretical teams continue to analyze the results and publish them in the scientific literature.<ref>http://www.psfc.mit.edu/research/topics/alcator-c-mod-tokamak</ref>
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