Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities limit the material that can be contained in a tokamak. The nature of the dangerous kink and ballooning modes is investigated for a typical configuration. In high-beta systems the most dangerous instabilities are ballooning modes that form large convective cells concentrated in regions of unfavorable magnetic field-line curvature.
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Todd et al. (1977) studied this question.
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