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Alcator C-Mod was slated to shut down in October 2013. However, the 2014 Congressional omnibus spending bill explicitly specified operation of the experiment, providing $22 million. The experimental operation was restarted in February 2014.
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|
In 2016 Alcator C-Mod set a world record for plasma pressure in a magnetically confined fusion device, reaching 2.05 atmospheres – a 15 percent jump over the previous record of 1.77 atmospheres (also held by Alcator C-Mod). This record plasma had a temperature of 35 million degrees C, lasted for 2 seconds, and yielded 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 operation with a toroidal magnetic field of 5.7 tesla. 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>
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