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Equilibrium and Instabilities

Operational Limits and Limiting Instabilities in Tokamak Machines

H. R. KoslowskiForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energieforschung 4 – Plasmaphysik EURATOM Association, Trilateral Euregio Cluster, D-52425 Jülich, Germany email: [email protected]
Pages 148-155 | Published online: 10 Aug 2017

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