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Hence, the prevention of total reconnect ion does not seem to
result from the divertor geometry of Tokapole II. Indeed, this
partial reconnection has now also been observed in materially
limited Tokapole II discharges, and, recently, in larger
non-diverted tokamaks. The explanation for the partial
reconnection might lie outside the MHD model presently employed
(unless the totally reconnected state is short lived, as may be
true for at least some equilibria studied).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work is supported by the US Department of Energy and
by the National Science Foundation.
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