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Figure 1

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Destructive magnetic perturbations create a complex 3-D structure of magnetic field lines that randomly wander inside the tokamak. The red line shows the 3-D trajectory of an example field line, and each field line can have a significantly different trajectory. The colors of the cross-section represent the length of field line trajectory through each area, from short (black) to long (yellow) lengths.

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Min-Gu Yoo

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