Which mechanism hinders magnetic field confinement in tokamaks?

💡 Explanation

Resistive diffusion causes magnetic field lines to reconnect, generating magnetic islands and disrupting confinement because current sheet gradients drive instabilities causing reconnection; therefore confinement fails rather than retaining field integrity under ideal magnetohydrodynamics.

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