Which mechanism causes magnetic field degradation within fusion reactor tokamaks?

💡 Explanation

The plasma resistive tearing instability disrupts magnetic confinement by causing localized reconnection events that weaken the confining field because small resistivity allows magnetic field lines to break and reconnect, therefore diminishing the applied field rather than other structural failures

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