Publications

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Nuclear Analysis of FIRE; M.E. Sawan and H.Y. Khater, June 2001 [presented at the FIRE Peer Review Meeting, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, June 5-7, 2001]. (25 pages, 416 kB)

Progress in the Development of a 3He Ion Source for IEC Fusion; G.R. Piefer, E.C. Alderson, R.P. Ashley, D.R. Boris, G.A. Emmert, R.C. Giar, G.L. Kulcinski, R.F. Radel, T.E. Radel, J.F. Santarius, A.L. Wehmeyer, March 2005 [presented at the US-Japan IEC Workshop, 14-16 March 2005, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM]. (25 pages, 6.2 MB)

Fusion Space Propulsion-A Shorter Time Frame than You Think; J.F. Santarius, December 2005 [presented at the 53rd Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting, Monterey, 5-8 December 2005]. (25 pages, 2.1 MB)

Overview of ARIES-CS In-Vessel Components: Integration of Nuclear, Economics, and Safety Constraints in Compact Stellarator Design; L. El-Guebaly, R. Raffray, S. Malang, J. Lyon, L.P. Ku, X. Wang, L. Bromberg, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, T. Tautges, M. Sawan, G. Sviatoslavsky, B. Kiedrowski, R. Slaybaugh, A. Ibrahim, M. Wang, C. Martin, B. Merrill, L. Waganer, F. Najmabadi, and the ARIES Team, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (25 pages, 16 MB) [more]

Perspectives on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Payback Ratios for Fusion Power; Paul Meier and G.L. Kulcinski, March 2000 [Presented at the International Energy Agency Task Meeting on Socio-Economic Aspects of Fusion Power, San Diego, 17 March 2000]. (26 pages, 267 kB)

Spiral Blanket: A Novel Idea with Potential for High Neutron Wall Loading in a Dry Wall Blanket Design; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.E. Sawan, M.L. Corradini, April 2002 [presented at the APEX Quarterly Meeting, 17-19 April 2002, San Diego CA]. (26 pages, 775 kB)

Response of Dry Wall Graphite Chamber Designs to the Output Spectrum from a Directly Driven Laser IFE Target; Donald A. Haynes, Jr. and Robert R. Peterson, December 2002 [presented at High Average Power Laser Program Workshop, 5-6 December 2002, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC]. (26 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]

A Decade of IEC Research at the University of Wisconsin; R.P. Ashley, E.C. Alderson, D.R. Boris, R.C. Giar, G.L. Kulcinski, G.R. Piefer, R.F. Radel, T.E. Radel, J.F. Santarius, and A.L. Wehmeyer, March 2005 [presented at the US-Japan IEC Workshop, 14-16 March 2005, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM]. (26 pages, 4.6 MB)

Progress in IEC Research at the University of Wisconsin Since the 7th US-Japan Workshop; G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, R.P. Ashley, G.A. Emmert, E.C. Alderson, D.R. Boris, L. Campbell, B.J. Egle, R.C. Giar, G R. Piefer, R.F. Radel, C.M. Seyfert, S.J. Zenobia, May 2006 [presented at the 8th U.S.-Japan Workshop, 10-12 May 2006, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan]. (26 pages, 2.8 MB)

3-D Source, Neutron Wall Loading and Radiative Heating for ARIES-CS; P. Wilson, B. Kiedrowski, L.A. El-Guebaly, October 2006 [presented at the ARIES Project Meeting and Review, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton NJ, 4-5 October 2006]. (26 pages, 1.5 MB)

Progress in IEC Research at the University of Wisconsin Since the 8th US-Japan Workshop; G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, R.P. Ashley, G.A. Emmert, E.C. Alderson, D.R. Boris, L.D. Campbell, D.C. Donovan, B.J. Egle, G.R. Piefer, R.F. Radel, P.E. Rusch, J.H. Sorebo, S.J. Zenobia, May 2007 [presented at the U.S.-Japan IEC Workshop on Small Plasma and Accelerator Neutron Sources, May 22-24, 2007, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL]. (26 pages, 2.7 MB)

Goals, Challenges, and Successes of Managing Fusion Active Materials; L. El-Guebaly, V. Massaut, K. Tobita, L. Cadwallader, October 2007 [presented at the 8th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, 1-5 October 2007, Heidelberg, Germany; published in Fusion Engineering and Design 83, Issues 7-9 (2008) 928-935]. (26 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]

Results of Steady State Implantation of He+ and D+ in Carbon Velvet and W-Coated Carbon Velvet; S.J. Zenobia, G.L. Kulcinski, R.P. Ashley, D.R. Boris, J. Sorebo, E.C. Alderson, C. Paz-Soldan, G. Becerra, October 2007. (26 pages, 17 MB)

Spatial and Energy Profiling of D-D Fusion Reactions in an IEC Fusion Device; D.C. Donovan, D.R. Boris, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (26 pages, 1.7 MB)

Status of Fusion Neutronics Predictive Capabilities; M.E. Sawan, P. Wilson, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, T. Bohm, B. Smith, A. Ibrahim, November 2010 [presented at the 19th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, November 7-11, 2010, Las Vegas NV.]. (26 pages, 2.6 MB)

Electricity Production from Laser Fusion Reactors: Technology Aspects of Power Conversion Chambers; G.L. Kulcinski, November 1999 [Presented at the International Forum on Advanced High Power Lasers and Applications, Suita, Osaka, Japan, 1-5 November 1999]. (27 pages, 3.8 MB)

Threat Spectra and Energy Partition for Au and Pd Coated Laser IFE Targets; R.R. Peterson, I. Golovkin, D.A. Haynes, G.A. Moses, November 2001 [presented at Laser IFE Program Workshop, 13-14 November 2001, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Pleasanton, CA]. (27 pages, 3.6 MB)

Innovations in 3-Dimensional Neutronics Analysis for Fusion Systems; P. Wilson, T. Tautges, M. Sawan, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, G. Sviatoslavsky, B. Kiedrowski, A. Ibrahim, B. Smith, R. Slaybaugh, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (27 pages, 4.2 MB) [more]

Overview of ARIES-CS In-Vessel Components: Integration of Nuclear, Economics, and Safety Constraints in Compact Stellarator; L.A. El-Guebaly and the ARIES Team, June 2007 [presented at the 2nd IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plants: Design and Technology, 20-22 June 2007, Vienna, Austria]. (27 pages, 1.5 MB)

Tandem Mirror Materials Test Reactors of the Early 1980’'s; G.L. Kulcinski and J.F. Santarius, March 2009 [presented at the Workshop to Assess Mission and Technology of Gas Dynamic Trap Neutron Source for Fusion Systems Material and Component Testing and Qualification, 12 March 2009, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA]. (27 pages, 2.9 MB)

Development of Nuclear Analysis Predictive Capabilities for Fusion Energy Systems; M.E. Sawan, P. Wilson, T. Tautges, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, T. Bohm, G. Sviatoslavsky, B. Kiedrowski, A. Ibrahim, B. Smith, R. Slaybaugh, March 2007 [presented at the 10th International Conference on Energy and Environment, 11-15 March 2007, Luxor, Egypt]. (27 pages, 4.6 MB) [more]

Neutronics Assessment of the ITER First Wall/Shield Modules; M. Sawan, B. Smith, P. Wilson, June 2007 [presented at the 22nd IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE07), 17-21 June 2007, Albuquerque NM]. (27 pages, 3.7 MB)

Update on the VICTER Code for Modeling Gridded, Spherically Symmetric IEC Devices; G.A. Emmert, J.F. Santarius, E.C. Alderson, December 2011 [presented at the 13th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 7-8 December 2011, Sydney, Australia]. (27 pages, 2.7 MB)

Overview of University of Wisconsin Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Research; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, G.L. Kulcinski, R. Bonomo, E. Alderson, G. Becerra, L. Garrison, K. Hall, A. McEvoy, M. Michalak, C. Schuff, October 2012 [presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 29 October-2 November 2012, Providence RI]. (27 pages, 6.0 MB)

Development of a Dry Wall Concept for Laser IFE Chambers; J.P. Blanchard, September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (28 pages, 1.8 MB)

Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability of a Membraneless, Sinusoidal Gas Interface; B.J. Motl, J. Niederhaus, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza, November 2005 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, 20-22 November 2005]. (28 pages, 3.8 MB)

Radiation Treatment Planning Using Discrete Ordinates Codes; R. Slaybaugh, March 2007 [presented at the 2007 ANS Student Conference, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, 29-31 March 2007; won Best Paper Award in the Health Physics category]. (28 pages, 1.8 MB)

Radiation Treatment Planning Using Discrete Ordinates Codes; R.N. Slaybaugh, M.L. Williams, D. Ilas, D.E. Peplow, R.A. Lillie, B.L. Kirk, Y.Y. Azmy, T.L. Nichols, M.P. Langer, June 2007 [presented at the ANS Annual Meeting, 24-28 June 2007, Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA]. (28 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]

Acceleration Techniques for the Direct Use of CAD-Based Geometry in Fusion Neutronics Analysis; P.P.H. Wilson, T.J. Tautges, J.A. Kraftcheck, B.M. Smith, D.L. Henderson, October 2009 [presented at the 9th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-9), 11-16 October 2009, Dalian, China]. (29 pages, 1.4 MB) [more]

Spatial and Energy Profiling of D-D Fusion Reactions in an IEC Fusion Device; David C. Donovan, October 2010 [presented at the 12th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 20-21 October 2010, Osaka, Japan]. (29 pages, 11 MB)

Surface Effects of Steady State He+ Implantation in CVD Silicon Carbide; S.J. Zenobia, G.L. Kulcinski, R.F. Radel, August 2006 [presented at the High Average Power Laser Program Workshop, 8-9 August 2006, General Atomics, San Diego CA]. (30 pages, 5.6 MB)

Physics and Technology Conditions for Attaining Tritium Self-Sufficiency for the D-T Fuel Cycle; Mohamed Sawan, Mohamed Abdou, May 2005 [presented at the 7th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-7), 22-27 May 2005, Tokyo, Japan]. (30 pages, 2.4 MB)

UW IEC Group 2010: Further Infrastructure Improvements and Preparations for 300 kV Operation; Richard Bonomo, Eric Alderson, Gabriel Becerra, Logan Campbell, David Donovan, Gil Emmert, Lauren Garrison, Gerald Kulcinski, Aaron McEvoy, Matthew Michalak, John Santarius, Craig Schuff, Sam Zenobia, October 2010 [presented at the 12th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 20-21 October 2010, Osaka, Japan]. (30 pages, 5.7 MB)

Dry-Wall Target Chambers for Direct-Drive Laser Fusion; G.L. Kulcinski, R.R. Peterson, February 2001 [presented at the U.S.-Japan Workshop on Laser Fusion, January 25-27, 2001, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]. (31 pages, 654 kB)

Innovations in 3-D Neutronics Analysis for Fusion Energy Systems; P.P.H. Wilson, March 2007 [presented at the U.W. Plasma Seminar]. (31 pages, 1.5 MB)

Preliminary Results for Steady State Implantation of He+ and D+ in Carbon Velvet and W-Coated Carbon Velvet; S.J. Zenobia, G.L. Kulcinski, T. Knowles, R.F. Radel, D. Boris, C. Seyfert, D. Donovan, A. Creuziger, J. Nacker, December 2006 [presented at the High Average Power Laser Program Workshop, 12-13 December 2006, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton NJ]. (32 pages, 12 MB)

Toward the Ultimate Goal of Radwaste-Free Fusion: Recycling and Clearance, Avoiding Geological Disposal; L. El-Guebaly, April 2008 [presented at the Department of Physics Seminar, University of Wisconsin]. (32 pages, 2.0 MB)

Updated DCLL TBM Neutronics Analysis; Mohamed Sawan, August 2008 [presented at the Fusion Nuclear Science and Technology (FNST) meeting, 12-14 August 2008, UCLA, Los Angeles CA]. (32 pages, 5.7 MB)

Integral Transport Modeling of Spherically Symmetric, Gridded IEC Devices; G.A. Emmert and J.F. Santarius, October 2010 [presented at the 12th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 20-21 October 2010, Osaka, Japan]. (32 pages, 1.6 MB)

Sealing Faceted Surfaces to Achieve Watertight CAD Models; B.M. Smith, T.J. Tautges, P.P.H. Wilson, October 2010 [Proceedings of the 19th International Meshing Roundtable, 3-6 October 2010, Chattanooga TN]. (32 pages, 2.5 MB) [more]

Target Threat Spectra; G.A. Moses and J.F. Santarius, June 2005 [presented at the High Average Power Laser Program Workshop, 20-21 June 2005, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA]. (33 pages, 563 kB)

Activation Assessments of 316-SS Vacuum Vessel and W-Based Divertor; L. El-Guebaly, A. Robinson, D. Henderson, May 2010 [presented at the ARIES Project Meeting, 19 May 2010, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla CA]. (33 pages, 3.0 MB)

Recent Advances in Development of Fusion Neutronics Predictive Capabilities; M.E. Sawan, P. Wilson, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, T. Bohm, B. Smith, A. Ibrahim, May 2011 [presented at the 15th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES2011), 15-19 May 2011, San Francisco CA]. (33 pages, 3.6 MB)

Non-Electrical Power, Near Term Applications of Fusion Energy; G.L. Kulcinski, October 1999 [Presented at the 18th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, Albuquerque NM, 25-29 October 1999]. (34 pages, 585 kB)

Steady-State He+ Implantation In Engineered First Wall Armor Materials; S.J. Zenobia, B. Egle, T. Knowles, R. Raffray, J. Shea, S. O'Dell, G. Kulcinski and the IEC Group, October 2008 [presented at the 19th High Average Power Laser Program Workshop, 22-23 October 2008, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI]. (34 pages, 11 MB) [more]

Integrated Management Strategy for Fusion Activated Materials: US Position and Regulations; L.A. El-Guebaly and L. Cadwallader, July 2009 [presented at the 9th IAEA Technical Meeting on Fusion Power Plant Safety, 15-17 July 2009, Vienna, Austria]. (34 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]

Ion Extraction from a Helicon Plasma for 3He IEC Experiments; Gabriel E. Becerra, Gerald L. Kulcinski, John Santarius, October 2012 [presented at the 14th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 14-16 October 2012, College Park MD]. (34 pages, 3.7 MB)

State-of-the-Art Scheme for Managing Fusion Activated Materials: US Strategy and Regulations; L. El-Guebaly and L. Cadwallader, March 2009 [presented at the Japan-US Workshop on Fusion Power Plants and Related Advanced Technologies, 16-18 March 2009, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan]. (35 pages, 1.5 MB) [more]

Toward the Ultimate Goal of Radwaste-Free Fusion: Recycling and Clearance, Avoiding Disposal; L. El-Guebaly, May 2011 [presented at the Colloquium in Environmental Toxicology, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3 May 2011]. (35 pages, 5.1 MB)

Direct Coupling of 3-D Neutronics with CAD Models Applied to Fusion Systems; M.E. Sawan, P.P.H. Wilson, T. Tautges, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, T. Bohm, B. Kiedrowski, A. Ibrahim, B. Smith, R. Slaybaugh, September 2009 [presented at the 18th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2008), 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA]. (36 pages, 3.0 MB) [more]

Addressing Challenges to Development of Laser Fusion Energy; Mohamed Sawan and the HAPL Team, March 2009 [presented at the Cairo 11th International Conference on Energy and Environment, 15-18 March 2009, Hurghada, Egypt]. (36 pages, 4.3 MB)

Negative Ion Studies in an IEC Fusion Device; E.C. Alderson, J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, G.L. Kulcinski, December 2011 [presented at the 13th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 7-8 December 2011, Sydney, Australia]. (37 pages, 1.5 MB)

Experimental and Computational Investigations of Shock-Accelerated Gas Bubbles; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, T. Bauer, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, L. Smith, J. Greenough, R. Bonazza, July 2004 [presented at the 9th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Cambridge, UK, 19-23 July 2004]. (38 pages, 4.2 MB) [more]

Application of CAD Neutronics Coupling to Geometrically Complex Fusion Systems; M.E. Sawan, P. Wilson, T. Tautges, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, T. Bohm, E. Marriott, B. Kiedrowski, B. Smith, A. Ibrahim, R. Slaybaugh, May 2009 [presented at the 23rd Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE-2009), 31 May-5 June 2009, San Diego CA]. (38 pages, 3.0 MB) [more]

Environmental, Safety, and Economic Studies of Inertial Fusion Power Plants; G.L. Kulcinski, April 1999 [Presented to the Task Force on Fusion Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 29 April 1999]. (40 pages, 7.0 MB)

A Campaign to Study Negative Ion and Fast Neutral Currents Produced by the IEC Device in a Variety of Configurations; E.C. Alderson, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (42 pages, 1.8 MB)

Dry-Wall Target Chambers for Direct-Drive Laser Fusion; G.L. Kulcinski, R.R. Peterson, D.A. Haynes, February 2001 [presented at the Laser IFE Program Workshop, February 6-7, 2001, Naval Research Laboratory]. (43 pages, 713 kB)

Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Negative Ions in IEC Devices at UW-Madison: Current Results and Plans for Future Work; Eric C. Alderson, October 2010 [presented at the 12th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 20-21 October 2010, Osaka, Japan]. (43 pages, 4.5 MB)

Nuclear Analysis at UW in Support ITER Design; M.E. Sawan, P. Wilson, B. Smith, T. Bohm, February 2010 [presented at the ITER Neutronics Meeting, 8-9 February 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France]. (44 pages, 2.6 MB)

Benchmarking FENDL-2.1 with Impact of ENDF/BVII.0 Release; Mohamed Sawan, Tim Bohm, December 2008 [presented at the 1st Research Coordination Meeting (RCM) on "Nuclear Data Libraries for Advanced Systems - Fusion Devices", 2-5 December 2008, IAEA, Vienna, Austria]. (45 pages, 3.4 MB)

UW IEC Group 2012: Building a 300kV Switch for Device Selection -- Surprises, Lessons Learned, and Mitigation Techniques; Richard Bonomo, Eric Alderson, Gabriel Becerra, Gil Emmert, Lauren Garrison, Karla Hall, Gerald Kulcinski, Aaron McEvoy, Matthew Michalak, John Santarius, Craig Schuff, October 2012 [presented at the 14th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 14-16 October 2012, College Park MD]. (45 pages, 1.9 MB)

Lunar 3He and Fusion Power; J.F. Santarius, September 2004 [presented at IEEE Rock River Valley Section, 28 September 2004, Rockford, IL]. (48 pages, 4.6 MB)

Overview of UW FTI Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) and Other Research; John Santarius, February 2013 [presented at the UW Plasma Physics Seminar, University of Wisconsin, 18 February 2013]. (49 pages, 7.4 MB)

Technological Challenges for Realizing Fusion Energy; Mohamed Sawan, March 2009 [presented at the International Workshop on Nuclear Science and Education, 17-19 March 2009, Cairo, Egypt]. (54 pages, 5.2 MB)

Robust Tracking and Advanced Geometry for Monte Carlo Radiation Transport; B.M. Smith, March 2011 [Ph.D. thesis slides]. (59 pages, 8.7 MB)

Recent Results of ICF and IFE Z-Pinch Research at the University of Wisconsin; R.R. Peterson, D. Kammer, D.A. Haynes, D. Williamson, J.P. Blanchard, A. Kostuch, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, H.Y. Khater, G.A. Moses, G.A. Rochau, M.E. Sawan, J. Yuan, P. McKenna, T.J. Tautges, G. Shanmugasundar, and G.L. Kulcinski, November 2000 [presented at Sandia National Laboratories, 6 November 2000]. (92 pages, 3.4 MB)

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