Publications

UWFDM-212   New Analysis of First Wall Lifetime Considerations for Fusion Reactors; W. Wolfer and R.W. Conn, March 1977. (34 pages, 1.3 MB)

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-193   Comparative One-Dimensional Monte Carlo and Discrete Ordinates Neutronics and Photonics Analysis for a Laser Fusion Reactor Blanket with Li2O Particles as Coolant and Breeder; M.M.H. Ragheb, E.T. Cheng, and R.W. Conn, January 1977. (42 pages, 1.7 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-173   TETR - A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor to Qualify Materials and Blanket Components for Early DT Fusion Power Reactors; 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, R. Nygren, K. Okula, 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, and W.C. Young, September 1976. (23 pages, 2.1 MB) [more]

UWFDM-174   MHD Equilibria for Plasmas in a Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor (TETR); T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and G.A. Emmert, September 1976. (14 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-175   What is Past is Prologue: Future Directions in Tokamak Power Reactor Design Research; R.W. Conn, September 1976 [ANS Topical Meeting Paper]. (19 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-168   A High Performance, Noncircular Tokamak Power Reactor Design Study - UWMAK-III; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, C.W. Maynard, R. Aronstein, R.W. Boom, A. Bowles, R.G. Clemmer, J. Davis, G.A. Emmert, S. Ghose, Y. Gohar, J. Kesner, S. Kuo, E. Larsen, J. Scharer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, T.F. Yang, and W. Young, August 1976 [Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Berchtesgaden, Federal Republic of Germany, 6-13 October 1976]. (25 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-164   The Design of a Noncircular Plasma for the Argonne Tokamak Experimental Power Reactor; T.F. Yang and R.W. Conn, July 1976. (19 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-166   The UWMAK-II Study and Magnet Design; R.W. Boom, R.W. Conn, and W.C. Young, June 1976 [presented at 9th Symposium on Fusion Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany, 14-18 June 1976]. (10 pages, 881 kB)

UWFDM-169   The Influence of Design Variations on CTR Blanket Neutronic Performance Using Variational Techniques; E. Cheng and R.W. Conn, June 1976 [accepted for publication in Nuclear Science and Engineering]. (53 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-156   An Advanced Conceptual Tokamak Fusion Power Reactor Utilizing Closed Cycle Helium Gas Turbines; R.W. Conn and S.C. Kuo, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (73 pages, 2.9 MB)

UWFDM-153   Plasma Modeling and First Wall Interaction Phenomena in Tokamaks; R.W. Conn and J. Kesner, February 1976 [published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 63 (1976) 1-14]. (25 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-148   Study of RF and Neutral Beam Heating of Large Tokamaks; J.E. Scharer, R.W. Conn, and D.T. Blackfield, December 1975. (69 pages, 2.8 MB)

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-155   Space Dependent Effects on the Lawson Criterion, the Ignition Condition, and Thermal Equilibria in Tokamaks; R.W. Conn and Jay Kesner, December 1975 [to be published in Nuclear Fusion]. (37 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-146   Apparent Difficulties Associated With High Magnetic Field Large Tokamak Power Reactor Designs; R.W. Boom, R.W. Conn, and J.W. Lue, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 776 kB)

UWFDM-152   MHD Equilibrium Study of Noncircular Tokamak Reactor Plasmas; T.F. Yang and R.W. Conn, November 1975. (37 pages, 1.5 MB)

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-136   Impurity Effects on Plasma Performance in Two Component Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, M. Khelladi, and J. Kesner, October 1975 [submitted to Nuclear Fusion]. (57 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-130   A Possible Scenario to Commercial Tokamak Power Reactors Based on the Results of the UWMAK-I and II Conceptual Design Studies; G.L. Kulcinski and R.W. Conn, June 27, 1975 (revised November 25, 1975). (47 pages, 1.9 MB)

UWFDM-127   Protection of CTR Metallic First Walls by Neutron Spectral Shifting - Preliminary Draft; G.L. Kulcinski, R.W. Conn, H.I. Avci, and D.K. Sze, June 3, 1975. (48 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-128   Heat Transfer and Neutronics of ISSEC and Partial ISSEC Blanket Designs; D.K. Sze and R.W. Conn, June 1975. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-122   Start-Up of UWMAK-II; T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and G.A. Emmert, May 1975. (15 pages, 826 kB)

UWFDM-125   Superconducting Toroidal Field Magnets for a Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor; J.W. Lue and R.W. Conn, May 1975 [to be published in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 21 (1975)]. (24 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-126   A Multipoint Interpolation Method Based on Variational Principles for Functionals of the Solution to Linear Equations; E.T. Cheng and R.W. Conn, May 1975. (19 pages, 976 kB)

UWFDM-119   A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor; R.W. Conn and D.L. Jassby, March 1975. (39 pages, 2.0 MB) [more]

UWFDM-113   Comparative Study of Radioactivity and Afterheat in Several Fusion Reactor Blanket Designs; R.W. Conn, T.Y. Sung, and M.A. Abdou, October 1974. (29 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-114   Major Design Features of the Conceptual D-T Tokamak Power Reactor, UWMAK-II; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, M. Abdou, R.W. Boom, G.A. Emmert, Y. Eyssa, M. Hilal, J. Kesner, W. Lue, C.W. Maynard, A. Mense, J. Scharer, T. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, L. Wittenberg, T. Yang, and W. Young, October 1974 [published in the Proceedings of the Fifth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Tokyo, Japan, 11-15 November 1974]. (19 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-115   New Concepts for Controlled Fusion Reactor Blanket Design; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, H. Avci, and M. El-Maghrabi, October 1974 [paper submitted to Nuclear Technology]. (47 pages, 2.9 MB)

UWFDM-109   A New Fusion Reactor Design Concept; R.W. Conn and G.L. Kulcinski, August 10, 1974. (34 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-108   A Method to Reduce the Effects of Plasma Contamination and First Wall Erosion in Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, R.W. Conn, G. Lang, L. Wittenberg, D. Sze, J. Kesner, D.L. Kummer, August 9, 1974. (74 pages, 4.5 MB) [more]

UWFDM-107   An Optimal Multistage Sequential Monte Carlo Method; M.M.H. Ragheb, C.W. Maynard, and R.W. Conn, August 1974. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-106   Parametric Studies of Driven Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, W.A. Houlberg, and J. Kesner, June 28, 1974. (59 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-105   Conceptual Design Considerations for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; R.W. Conn and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1974 [(The Netherlands Meeting)]. (27 pages, 954 kB)

UWFDM-104   A Consistent Model for Energy Distribution of Secondary Neutrons from (n,2n) and (n,n-prime) Reactions; M. Sawan and R.W. Conn, May 1974 [Trans. ANS 19 (1974) 469]. (9 pages, 520 kB)

UWFDM-90   The Conceptual Design of a Tokamak Fusion Power Reactor, UWMAK-I; G.L. Kulcinski and Robert W. Conn, April 1974 [First Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion; Reported for the University of Wisconsin Fusion Feasibility Group]. (21 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-91   Technological Implications for Tokamak Fusion Reactors of the UWMAK-I Conceptual Design; R.W. Conn and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1974 [(First Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion)]. (17 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-64   Stray Fields of the Conceptual Tokamak Fusion Reactor, UWMAK-I; T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and C.W. Maynard, February 1974. (17 pages, 843 kB)

UWFDM-87   Comparative Study of Nuclear Heating in Fusion Reactor Blankets; M.A. Abdou and Robert W. Conn, February 1974. (8 pages, 632 kB)

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