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It is known that an internal tokamak disruption leads to a current profile which is flattened inside the surface when the safety factor equals unity. It is shown that such a profile can lead to m=2 magnetic islands which grow to fill a substantial part of the tokamak cross section in a time consistent with the observation of a major disruption.
White et al. (Mon,) studied this question.