Publications

UWFDM-262   p-6Li Ignition and Multipoles as Advanced Fuel Cycle Reactors; R.W. Conn and G. Shuy, September 25, 1978. (47 pages, 1.7 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-28   Variational Methods for Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor Blanket Studies; R.W. Conn and W.M. Stacey, Jr., September 1972. (10 pages, 982 kB) [more]

UWFDM-88   VARIED: A Computer Program for Variational Neutronics Calculations; E.T. Cheng and Robert W. Conn, December 1973. (38 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-46   University of Wisconsin Tokamak Power Reactor Design; C.W. Maynard, R.W. Conn, and H.K. Forsen, May 1973 [presented at the VI European Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, July 30-August 3, 1973, Moscow, USSR]. (8 pages, 746 kB)

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-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-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-279   Tritium and Fissile Fuel Exchange Between Fusion Hybrids, Fission Power Reactors, and Tritium Production Reactors; M.Z. Youssef, R.W. Conn, W.F. Vogelsang, April 1979. (26 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-288   Tokamak Reactors and Structural Materials; R.W. Conn, January 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 9 (1979)]. (11 pages, 942 kB)

UWFDM-16   Tokamak Fusion Reactor: Plasma Equations and Energy Equilibria and Stability; R.W. Conn, May 1972 (revised July 1972). (23 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-210   Time Dependent Neutronics for Laser Fusion Blanket and Materials Analysis; F. Beranek and R.W. Conn, June 1977. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-69   The Wisconsin Tokamak Reactor Design - An Overview; G.A. Emmert, R.W. Conn, and G.L. Kulcinski, August 1973. (5 pages, 545 kB)

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-229   The SOLASE Laser Fusion Reactor Design and Its Technological Implications; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, G.W. Cooper, J.E. Howard, E.M. Larsen, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and W.G. Wolfer, October 1977 [presented at IAEA Conference and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design, Madison, October 1977, IAEA-TC-145/17, 269-298 (1978)]. (41 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-257   The Interaction of a High Frequency Magnetic Field with the DCLC Mirror Instability; K-C. Shaing, J. Kesner, R.W. Conn, August 1978. (12 pages, 655 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-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-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-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-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-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-337   Summary of the Fusion-Fission Hybrid Fuel Cycle Analysis (Tritiumless Hybrids?); S.I. Abdel-Khalik, R.W. Conn, D. Henderson, F. Kantrowitz, G.L. Kulcinski, E.M. Larsen, G.A. Moses, M.S. Ortman, M. Ragheb, W.F. Vogelsang, and M.Z. Youssef, December 1979. (36 pages, 2.1 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-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-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-122   Start-Up of UWMAK-II; T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and G.A. Emmert, May 1975. (15 pages, 826 kB)

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-245   Single Particle Orbits in a Tandem Mirror; L.L. Lao, R.W. Conn, and J. Kesner, May 1978. (18 pages, 859 kB)

UWFDM-268   Simulation of Transport in the Central Cell of a Tandem Mirror; L.L. Lao and R.W. Conn, October 1978. (19 pages, 784 kB)

UWFDM-19   Self-Consistent Energy Balance Studies for CTR Tokamak Plasmas; R.W. Conn, D.G. McAlees, and G.A. Emmert, July 1972. (41 pages, 1.5 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-301   SOLASE - A Laser Fusion Reactor Study - Summary and Conclusions; 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, April 1979. (40 pages, 1.6 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]

UWFDM-204   Reactor Aspects of Laser Fusion; R.W. Conn, November 9, 1977 [presented at International Scientific Forum on an Acceptable Future of Nuclear Energy for the World - Nov. 7- 11, 1977, Coral Gables, Florida]. (21 pages, 1.1 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-77   Properties and Solutions of the Steady State Neoclassical Transport Equations; R.W. Conn and G.A. Emmert, December 1973. (17 pages, 870 kB)

UWFDM-325   Preliminary Information on the University of Wisconsin Tandem Mirror Reactor Design; B. Badger, G.L. Kulcinski, L.L. Lao, D.C. Larbalestier, E. Larsen, L-P. Mai, J. Beyer, J.D. Callen, R.W. Conn, G.A. Emmert, S. Grotz, S. Hong, J. Kesner, T.K. Mau, C.W. Maynard, I. Ojalvo, K. Okula, M. Ortman, R.T. Perry, J. Santarius, J. Scharer, K. Shaing, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, A. White, and P. Wilkes, November 1979. (56 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-36   Preliminary Conceptual Design of a Tokamak Reactor; M.A. Abdou, R.W. Boom, M.W. Carbon, R.W. Conn, J.M. Donhowe, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, H.K. Forsen, W.A. Houlberg, J.H. Kamperschroer, D.W. Kerst, D. Klein, G.L. Kulcinski, C.W. Maynard, D.G. McAlees, A.T. Mense, P.A. Sanger, W.E. Stewart, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, W.R. Winter, T.A. Yang, W.C. Young, November 1972. (44 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]

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