1977•Unpublished venueOpen access
Simulation of a major tokamak disruption
R. B. White, D. Monticello, M. N. Rosenbluth
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Abstract
It is known that the internal tokamak disruption leads to a current profile which is flattened inside the surface where the safety factor equals unity. It is shown that such a profile can lead to m = 2 magnetic islands which grow to fill a substantial part of the tokamak cross section in a time consistent with the observations of the major disruption.
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