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It has been argued that turbulence cannot be responsible for a significant fraction of the anomalous component of transport, since that would lead to high resistivity (due to collisions), which contradicts experimental observation.
It has been argued that turbulence cannot be responsible for a significant fraction of the anomalous component of transport, since that would lead to high resistivity (due to collisions), which contradicts experimental observation.
<ref>L.C. Woods, ''Theory of tokamak transport: new aspects for nuclear fusion reactor design'', John Wiley and Sons (2006) ISBN 3527406255</ref>
<ref>L.C. Woods, ''Theory of tokamak transport: new aspects for nuclear fusion reactor design'', John Wiley and Sons (2006) ISBN 3527406255</ref>
However, this argument fails to note that transport events may be collective (e.g., via ''streamers''), which do not require an enhanced collisionality.
However, this argument fails to note that anomalous transport events may consist of collective events (e.g., ''streamers''), which does not require an enhanced collisionality.
As a footnote, this argument does show that the contribution of turbulence to transport is likely ''not'' of the diffusive type (see [[Non-diffusive transport]]).


== Can anomalous transport be modelled? ==
== Can anomalous transport be modelled? ==

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