Avoiding Chains of Magnetic Islands May Lead to Fusion Paradise (IMAGE)
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Top: plot of electron orbit paths based on reconstructed magnetic field geometry. Bottom: measured electron temperature across an island chain compared to the theoretical profile in the presence of a single island.
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Image courtesy of General Atomics with credit to Bardoczi., L. and Evans, T.E., Experimental observation of magnetic island heteroclinic bifurcation in tokamaks. Physical Review Letters 126, 085003 (2021).”
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Image courtesy of General Atomics with credit to Bardoczi., L. and Evans, T.E., Experimental observation of magnetic island heteroclinic bifurcation in tokamaks. Physical Review Letters 126, 085003 (2021).”
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