In this work, we consider magnetic reconnection in thin current sheets with both resistive and electron inertia effects. When the current sheet is produced by a primary instability of the internal kink type, the analysis of secondary instabilities indicates that reconnection proceeds on a time scale much shorter than the primary instability characteristic time. In the case of a sawtooth crash, non-collisional physics becomes important above a value of the Lundquist number, which scales like S similar to (R/d(e))(12/5), in terms of the tokamak major radius R and of the electron skin depth d(e). This value is commonly achieved in present day devices. As collisionality is further reduced, the characteristic rate increases, approaching Alfvenic values when the primary instability approaches the collisionless regime. Published by AIP Publishing.
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