Progress in snowflake divertor research in DIII-D, NSTX and NSTX-U

Recent snowflake (SF) divertor DIII-D experiments focused on divertor heat transport under attached and radiative divertor conditions, incl 1-understanding of increased scrape-off layer width in SF-plus configuration at lower densities; 2-particle, heat and radiation distribution in the SF divertor with CD$_4$ seeding. NSTX data was analyzed to understand the link between SF divertor and ELM (de)stabilization with and without CD$_4$ seeding and lithium conditioning. Prep for SF divertor experiments in NSTX-U include 1-equilibria modeling with ISOLVER code using various sets of divertor coils and L- and H-mode plasma scenarios; 2-transport and impurity radiation modeling with UEDGE code; 3-new diagnostics (ie-a 100-200 kHz camera for null-region mode observations).