University of Wisconsin Fusion Design Memos (UWFDM)
The UWFDM series of technical reports details the research of the Fusion Technology Institute from 1971 to the present. Over 800 authors have contributed more than 56000 pages to the 1300 reports. Nearly all are online.
Publications
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UWFDM-645 Void Nucleation and Phase Stability in Heavy Ion Irradiated Materials; D.L. Plumton, August 1985 [Ph.D. thesis]. (304 pages, 26 MB)
UWFDM-436 Effects of Heavy-Ion Irradiation on the Phase Stability of Several Copper-Base Alloys; Robert W. Knoll, August 1981 [Ph.D. thesis]. (305 pages, 12 MB)
UWFDM-255 Protection of CTR First Structural Walls by Neutron Spectrum Shifting; Halil Ibrahim Avci, July 1978 [Ph.D. thesis]. (322 pages, 9.4 MB)
UWFDM-749 Proceedings of the Third Inertial Confinement Fusion Systems and Applications Colloquium; R.R. Peterson, compiling editor, May 1988. (332 pages, 23 MB)
UWFDM-465 Thermal Effects and Erosion Rates Resulting from Intense Deposition of Energy in Fusion Reactor First Walls; Ahmed M. Hassanein, March 1982 [Ph.D. thesis]. (335 pages, 8.9 MB)
UWFDM-1392 Spatial Profiling Using a Time of Flight Diagnostic and Applications of Deuterium-Deuterium Fusion in Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Devices; David C. Donovan, May 2011 [Ph.D. thesis]. (337 pages, 8.9 MB)
UWFDM-358 Fusion-Fission Systems Analysis and the Impact of Nuclear Data Uncertainties on Design; M.Z. Youssef, May 1980 [Ph.D. thesis]. (339 pages, 12 MB)
UWFDM-238 A General Model for the Analysis of the Transient Radiation Damage Environment from Pulsed Thermonuclear Radiation; Thomas O. Hunter, July 1978 [Ph.D. thesis]. (346 pages, 9.5 MB)
UWFDM-748 Viewgraphs Presented at the Third Inertial Confinement Fusion Systems and Applications Colloquium, 9-11 November 1987, Madison, Wisconsin; R.R. Peterson, Compiling Editor, November 1987. (350 pages, 17 MB)
UWFDM-154 A Dynamic Rate Theory for the Response of Metals During Steady State and Pulsed Irradiation; Nasr M. Ghoniem, September 1977 [Ph.D. thesis]. (353 pages, 12 MB)
UWFDM-800 LIBRA - A Light Ion Beam Fusion Conceptual Reactor Design; B. Badger, G.A. Moses, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E. Lovell, J. MacFarlane, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, I. Smith, R. Altes, P. Corcoran, R. Kuenning, D. Pellow, D. Wake, J. Ehrhardt, G. Kessler, E. Stein, D.L. Cook, R.E. Olson, R.W. Stinnett, July 1989 (revised February 1990). (361 pages, 14 MB) [more]
UWFDM-460 The Impact of Inelastic Deformation, Radiation Effects, and Fatigue Damage on Fusion Reactor First Wall Lifetime; Robert David Watson, December 1981 [Ph.D thesis]. (369 pages, 10.0 MB)
UWFDM-950 SIRIUS-P, An Inertially Confined Direct Drive Laser Fusion Power Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Moses, R.L. Engelstad, H.Y. Khater, E.M. Larsen, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, P. Wang, L.J. Wittenberg, March 1993. (382 pages, 15 MB)
UWFDM-843 Proceedings of the First Wisconsin Symposium on D-3He Fusion, Madison WI; many authors, August 1990. (385 pages, 14 MB)
UWFDM-400 WITAMIR-I, A University of Wisconsin Tandem Mirror Reactor Design; B. Badger, K. Audenaerde, J.B. Beyer, D. Braun, J.D. Callen, G.A. Emmert, J.M. Gilmore, N. Hoffman, J. Kesner, G.L. Kulcinski, D.C. Larbalestier, E. Larsen, X. Li, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, I. Ojalvo, M. Ortman, R. Perry, M. Ragheb, J. Santarius, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, K. Shaing, I. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, A. White, P. Wilkes, and T. Yang, September 1980. (447 pages, 16 MB) [more]
UWFDM-550 UWTOR-M - A Conceptual Modular Stellarator Power Reactor; B. Badger, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.W. Van Sciver, G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Emmert, D.T. Anderson, A.W. Bailey, J.D. Callen, J.A. Derr, L. El-Guebaly, K.J. Lee, J.L. Shohet, D.K. Sze, R.C. Sanders, J. Tataronis, and K.Y. Yuan, October 1982. (449 pages, 14 MB)
UWFDM-364 Kinetics of the Degradation of Type 316 Stainless Steel by Liquid Lithium - Appendices; D.G. Bauer, June 1980. (451 pages, 19 MB)
UWFDM-270 SOLASE-H, A Laser Fusion Hybrid Study; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, G.W. Cooper, J.E. Howard, G.L. Kulcinski, E. Larsen, C.W. Maynard, M. Ragheb, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, W.G. Wolfer, M. Ortman, D. Smatlak, R. Watson, and M. Youssef, May 1979 (revised October 1979). (477 pages, 16 MB)
UWFDM-190 Studies of the Technological Problems of Laser Driven Fusion Reactors - Annual Report I; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, E.T. Cheng, G. Cooper, J. Howard, G.L. Kulcinski, E. Larsen, E. Lovell, G. Magelssen, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W. Wolfer, F. Beranek, S.K. Chang, R. Droll, N. Ghoniem, T. Hunter, M. Ortman, R. Spencer, G. Shuy, and M. Ragheb, December 1976. (528 pages, 16 MB) [more]
UWFDM-600 TASKA-M, A Low Cost, Near Term Tandem Mirror Device for Fusion Technology Testing; B. Badger, F. Arendt, E. Borie, M.L. Corradini, H.G. Dittrich, L. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, T. Fett, J.M. Grover, B. Haferkamp, W. Heinz, E. Hoelzchen, K. Kleefeldt, R. Klingelhoefer, P. Komarek, G.L. Kulcinski, M. Kuntze, E.M. Larsen, H.G. Leiste, G.W. Leppelmeier, W. Link, S. Malang, B.M. Manes, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, I. Michael, R.A. Mueller, G. Neffe, E.K. Opperman, L.J. Perkins, R.R. Peterson, K.E. Plute, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, J.E. Scharer, K. Schramm, A. Suppan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, S. Taczanowski, M.A. Vogel, W.F. Vogelsang, D. Weinberg, and L.J. Wittenberg, December 1983 [also KfK-3660 and FPA-83-7]. (598 pages, 22 MB) [more]
UWFDM-112 UWMAK-II, A Conceptual D-T Fueled, Helium Cooled, Tokamak Fusion Power Reactor Design; B. Badger, R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, M.A. Abdou, R. Aronstein, H.I. Avci, R.W. Boom, E.T. Cheng, J. Davis, J.M. Donhowe, G.A. Emmert, Y. Eyssa, N.M. Ghoniem, S. Ghose, W. Houlberg, J. Kesner, W. Lue, C.W. Maynard, A. Mense, N. Mohan, H.A. Peterson, T.Y. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, R. Westerman, L.J. Wittenberg, T.F. Yang, J. Young, and W. Young, October 1975. (663 pages, 30 MB) [more]
UWFDM-450 HIBALL - A Conceptual Heavy Ion Beam Driven Fusion Reactor Study; B. Badger, F. Arendt, K. Becker, K. Beckert, R. Bock, D. Boehne, I. Bozsik, J. Brezina, M. Dalle Donne, L. El-Guebaly, R. Engelstad, W. Eyrich, R. Froehlich, N. Ghoniem, B. Goel, A. Hassanein, D. Henderson, W. Hoebel, I. Hofmann, E. Hoyer, R. Keller, G. Kessler, A. Klein, R. Kreutz, G. Kulcinski, E. Larsen, K. Lee, K. Long, E. Lovell, N. Metzler, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, U. von Moellendorff, N. Moritz, G. Moses, R. Mueller, K. O'Brien, R. Peterson, K. Plute, L. Pong, R. Sanders, J. Sapp, M. Sawan, K. Schretzmann, T. Spindler, I. Sviatoslavsky, K. Symon, D. Sze, N. Tahir, W. Vogelsang, A. White, S. Witkowski, H. Wollnik, September 1981. (668 pages, 20 MB) [more]
UWFDM-330 NUWMAK - A Tokamak Reactor Design Study; B. Badger, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, J. Beyer, D. Blackfield, R.W. Boom, E. Cameron, E. Cheng, R.W. Conn, G.A. Emmert, M. Gordinier, S. Hong, J. Kesner, A. Klein, G.L. Kulcinski, L. Lao, E. Larsen, L.P. Mai, T.K. Mau, C.W. Maynard, P. Michaelson, G. O'Donnell, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, J. Scharer, D.C. Schluderberg, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, T. Thornton, W.F. Vogelsang, P. Wilkes, J. Williams, T. Wu, J. Wrazel, and W.C. Young, March 1979. (756 pages, 28 MB) [more]
UWFDM-150 UWMAK-III, A High Performance, Noncircular Tokamak Power Reactor Design; B. Badger, R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, C.W. Maynard, R. Aronstein, H.I. Avci, D. Blackfield, R.W. Boom, A. Bowles, E. Cameron, E.T. Cheng, R. Clemmer, S. Dalhed, J. Davis, G.A. Emmert, N.M. Ghoniem, S. Ghose, Y. Gohar, J. Kesner, S. Kuo, E. Larsen, E. Ramer, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, R.E. Schmunk, T.Y. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, T.F. Yang, and W. Young, December 1975. (807 pages, 55 MB) [more]
UWFDM-191 TETR: A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor to Qualify Materials and Blanket Components for Early DT Fusion Power Reactors; B. Badger, G.L. Kulcinski, R.W. Conn, C.W. Maynard, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, D. Blackfield, R.W. Boom, E. Cheng, J.R. Conrad, S. Dalhed, G.A. Emmert, B. Feinberg, Y. Gohar, S. Hong, J. Kesner, E. Larsen, P.F. Michaelson, K. Okula, M. Ragheb, E. Ramer, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, T. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, P. Wilkes, W.R. Wilkes, L. Wittenberg, J. Wrazel, T. Wu, T. Yang, J. Young, and W.C. Young, February 1977. (940 pages, 32 MB) [more]
UWFDM-68 UWMAK-I - A Wisconsin Toroidal Fusion Reactor Design; B. Badger, M.A. Abdou, R.W. Boom, R.G. Brown, E.T. Cheng, R.W. Conn, J.M. Donhowe, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, G.R. Hopkins, W.A. Houlberg, A.B. Johnson, J.H. Kamperschroer, D. Klein, G.L. Kulcinski, R.G. Lott, D.G. McAlees, C.W. Maynard, A.T. Mense, G.R. Neil, E. Normand, P.A. Sanger, W.E. Stewart, T. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, L.J. Wittenberg, T.F. Yang, and W.C. Young, November 20, 1973 (revised March 15, 1974). (1006 pages, 42 MB) [more]
UWFDM-500 TASKA - A Tandem Mirror Fusion Engineering Facility; B. Badger, F. Arendt, H.M. Attaya, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, J.B. Beyer, E. Bogusch, D. Boehme, D. Bruggink, L.P. Dietz, H. Dittrich, L. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, J. Erb, H. Frey, B. Glaser, G. Grant, W. Heinz, W. Hennhoefer, W. Koehler, P. Komarek, G.L. Kulcinski, M. Kuntze, E.M. Larsen, T. Lechtenberg, H.G. Leiste, X.Z. Li, W. Link, B.M. Manes, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, F. Mehren, E. Montalvo, D. Mundt, Z. Musicki, E. Opperman, J.E. Osher, L.J. Perkins, R.R. Peterson, K.E. Plute, U. Quade, G. Ries, H. Runge, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, J.E. Scharer, D.C. Schluderberg, H. Schuetz, A. Suppan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W. Tischler, M.A. Vogel, W.F. Vogelsang, A.M. White, W.G. Wolfer, D.B. Young, K.Y. Yuan, March 1982. (1043 pages, 33 MB) [more]
UWFDM-220 SOLASE - A Conceptual Laser Fusion Reactor Design; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, F. Beranek, E.T. Cheng, G.W. Cooper, R.B. Droll, T. Henderson, J. Howard, T.O. Hunter, E.M. Larsen, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, G.R. Magelssen, C.W. Maynard, K.R. Okula, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, W.B. Rensel, D. Solomon, R. Spencer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, R.D. Watson, and W.G. Wolfer, December 1977. (1122 pages, 34 MB) [more]