Publications

UWFDM-676   Lunar Source of He-3 for Commercial Fusion Power; L.J. Wittenberg, J.F. Santarius and G.L. Kulcinski, March 1986 [published in Fusion Technology 10, 167 (1986)]. (37 pages, 1.6 MB)

WCSAR-TR-AR3-9107-1   A Review of Helium-3 Resources and Acquisition for Use as Fusion Fuel; L.J. Wittenberg, E.N. Cameron, G.L. Kulcinski, S.H. Ott, J.F. Santarius, G.I. Sviatoslavsky, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, H. Thompson, October 1991 [Published in Fusion Technology, Special Issue on DHe3 Fusion, Vol. 21 (4) 2230-2253]. (68 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-1201   Production of 13N via Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion; J.W. Weidner, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, R.P. Ashley, G. Piefer, B. Cipiti, R. Radel, S. Krupakar Murali, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 539 (2003)]. (7 pages, 1.2 MB)

Production of 13N Using D-3He Fusion Protons; John Weidner, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, R.P. Ashley, B.B. Cipiti, G.R. Piefer, R.F. Radel, S. Krupakar Murali, October 2002 [presented at the Fifth U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 9-10 October 2002, Madison WI]. (12 pages, 640 kB)

Production of 13N via D-3He Fusion in an IEC Device; J.W. Weidner, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, R.P. Ashley, G. Piefer, B. Cipiti, R. Radel, and S. Krupakar Murali, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC]. (1 page, 612 kB)

Optimizing Neutron Production Rates from D-D Fusion in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device; A.L. Wehmeyer, R.F. Radel, G.R. Piefer, R.P. Ashley, T.E. Radel, D.R. Boris, J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (1 page, 1.7 MB)

Progress in Explosives Detection Using D-D Fusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; A.L. Wehmeyer, E.C. Alderson, R.P. Ashley, D.R. Boris, G.A. Emmert, R.C. Giar, G.L. Kulcinski, G.R. Piefer, R.F. Radel, T.E. Radel, and J.F. Santarius, March 2005 [presented at the US-Japan IEC Workshop, 14-16 March 2005, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM]. (17 pages, 5.0 MB)

Numerical Simulation for Numerical Simulation for UW-IEC Device; K. Tomiyasu, J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, October 2003 [presented at the 6th U.S.-Japan IEC Workshop, 20-21 October 2003, Tokyo, Japan]. (17 pages, 623 kB)

UWFDM-852   Space Propulsion by Fusion in a Magnetic Dipole; E. Teller, A.J. Glass, T.K. Fowler, A. Hasegawa, J.F. Santarius, April 1991 [presented at the First International A.D. Sakharov Conference on Physics, Moscow, USSR, 27-31 May 1991. Also published as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Report UCRL-JC-106807, and published in Fusion Technology, V. 22, August 1992, pp. 82-97]. (56 pages, 4.8 MB) [more]

Special Nuclear Materials Detection Using IEC Fusion Pulsed Neutron Source; J.H. Sorebo, G.L. Kulcinski, R.F. Radel, J.F. Santarius, September 2008 [presented at the 18th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA]. (2 pages, 5.4 MB)

UWFDM-1120   Solar-Wind Hydrogen at the Lunar Poles; H.H. Schmitt, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, J. Ding, M.J. Malecki, M.J. Zalewski, February 2000 [Presented at SPACE 2000, The Seventh International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Business in Space, Albuquerque NM, 27 February - 2 March 2000; published in the Proceedings, pp. 653-660]. (11 pages, 204 kB)

Solar-Wind Hydrogen at the Lunar Poles; H.H. Schmitt, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, J. Ding, M.J. Malecki, M.J. Zalewski, March 2000 [Presented at SPACE 2000, The Seventh International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Business in Space, Albuquerque NM, 27 February - 2 March 2000]. (15 pages, 169 kB)

UWFDM-340   Power Balance in a Tandem Mirror Reactor With Thermal Barriers; J.F. Santarius and R.W. Conn, January 1980. (34 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-380   WITAMIR-I, A Tandem Mirror Reactor with Non-Zero Nu; J. Santarius, K. Audenaerde, J. Beyer, G.A. Emmert, J. Kesner, G.L. Kulcinski, D.C. Larbalestier, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, R.T. Perry, J. Scharer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and D.K. Sze, September 1980 [Proc. of the 11th SOFT Conference, Oxford, England, Fusion Technology 1980 (Pergammon, Oxford, 1981) p. 1261]. (8 pages, 708 kB) [more]

UWFDM-425   Alpha Particle Loss and Energy Deposition in Tandem Mirrors; J.F. Santarius and J.D. Callen, November 1981 [Phys. Fluids 26 (1983) 1037]. (31 pages, 968 kB)

UWFDM-447   Plasma Engineering Considerations for an Inside-Barrier Tandem Mirror Test Facility; J.F. Santarius and G.A. Emmert, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (6 pages, 741 kB)

UWFDM-598   Halo Plasma Physics Model for Mirror Machines with Neutral Beam Injection; John F. Santarius, January 1985 (revised March 1986)  [Nuclear Fusion 26, 887 (1986)]. (36 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-675   Very High Efficiency Fusion Reactor Concept; John F. Santarius, February 1986 (revised October 1986)  [Nucl. Fusion 27 (1987) 167]. (17 pages, 860 kB)

UWFDM-717   SOAR: Space Orbiting Advanced Fusion Power Reactor; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, H. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, J.W. Johnson, C.W. Maynard, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, and T.E. Luzzi, January 1987 [Presented at 4th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, Albuquerque, NM, 12-16 January 1987; Space Nuclear Power Systems 1987 (Orbit, Malabar FL, 1988) 167]. (40 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]

UWFDM-741   Ra: A High Efficiency, D-3He, Tandem Mirror Fusion Reactor; J.F. Santarius, H.M. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, G.L. Kulcinski, E.M. Larsen, C.W. Maynard, Z. Musicki, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA; Proceedings (IEEE, NY, 1987) 752-755]. (7 pages, 778 kB)

UWFDM-753   Critical Issues for SOAR: The Space Orbiting Advanced Fusion Power Reactor; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, H. Khater, Z. Musicki, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, January 1988 (revised August 1988)  [Presented at Fifth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14 January 1988; Space Nuclear Power Systems 1988 (Orbit, Malabar FL, 1989) 161]. (24 pages, 2.2 MB)

UWFDM-764   Lunar He3, Fusion Propulsion, and Space Development; J.F. Santarius, June 1988 (revised August 1988)  [Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century (NASA Conf. Pub. 3166, Vol. 2 (1992) 459]. (31 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-794   Astrofuel - An Energy Source for the 21st Century; J.F. Santarius and G.L. Kulcinski, July 1989 [Wisconsin Professional Engineer 30:6 (1989) 14]. (14 pages, 456 kB)

UWFDM-795   Magnetic Fusion Energy and Space Development; J.F. Santarius, July 1989 [24th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Vol. 5 (IEEE, NY, 1989) 2525]. (13 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-815   Energy Conversion Options for ARIES-III -- a Conceptual D-3He Tokamak Reactor; J.F. Santarius, J.P. Blanchard, G.A. Emmert, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, N.M. Ghoniem, M.Z. Hasan, T.K. Mau, E. Greenspan, J.S. Herring, W. Kernbichler, A.C. Klein, G.H. Miley, R.L. Miller, Y-K.M. Peng, M.J. Schaffer, C.P.C. Wong, D. Steiner, D-K. Sze, and the ARIES Team, October 1989 [Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN (IEEE, NY, 1989) 1039]. (6 pages, 898 kB) [more]

UWFDM-874   The ARIES-III D-3He Tokamak Reactor Study; J.F. Santarius and the ARIES Team, January 1992 [presented at the US-USSR Workshop on D-3He Reactor Studies, 25 September - 2 October 1991, Moscow]. (10 pages, 853 kB)

UWFDM-875   D-3He Magnetic Fusion for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, January 1992 [presented at the US-USSR Workshop on D-3He Reactor Studies, 25 September - 2 October 1991, Moscow]. (8 pages, 753 kB)

UWFDM-876   Rectennas for Synchrotron Radiation Energy Conversion in D-3He Tokamaks; J.F. Santarius, January 1992 [presented at the US-USSR Workshop on D-3He Reactor Studies, 25 September - 2 October 1991, Moscow]. (7 pages, 697 kB)

UWFDM-881   Magnetic Fusion for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, March 1992 [Proceedings of the 10th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-12 June 1992, Boston MA; Fusion Technology 21 (1992) 1794]. (10 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-900   Magnetic Fusion for Space Propulsion: Capabilities and Issues; J.F. Santarius, July 1992 [Proc. of the American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting on Nuclear Technologies for Space Exploration, 16-19 August 1992, Jackson Hole WY, p. 409]. (12 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-914   Generic Magnetic Fusion Rocket Model; J.F. Santarius and B.G. Logan, April 1993 (revised February 1998)  [Prepared for the 29th AIAA/SAE/ASME/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Paper AIAA-93-2029, June 28-30, 1993, Monterey CA]. (33 pages, 623 kB) [more]

UWFDM-920   Magnetic Fusion Propulsion: Opening the Solar-System Frontier; J.F. Santarius, July 1993 [Proc. 2nd Wisconsin Symposium on Helium-3 and Fusion Power, 19-21 July 1993, Madison WI, p. 321]. (10 pages, 866 kB)

UWFDM-972   Advanced-Fuel Heat Flux, Power Density and Direct Conversion Issues; J.F. Santarius, November 1994 [Presented at the Sixth International Toki Conference, Toki-City, Japan, 29 November - 2 December 1994; published in Fusion Technology 27 (April 1995)]. (7 pages, 744 kB)

UWFDM-1048   Synchrotron Radiation Fusion Drive for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, J. Brandenburg, July 1997 [presented at the 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 6-9, 1997, Seattle WA]. (11 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1062   Could Advanced Fusion Fuels Be Used with Today's Technology?; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly, H.Y. Khater, January 1998 [presented at Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting, August 27-29, 1997, Aspen CO; Journal of Fusion Energy, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1998, p. 33]. (18 pages, 828 kB)

UWFDM-1068   FRC Power Plants - A Fusion Development Perspective; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, C.N. Nguyen, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, April 1998 [to be published in the Proceedings of the U.S.-Japan Workshop on the Physics of High-Beta Fusion Plasmas (Seattle, Washington, March 18-20, 1998)]. (10 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1084   Field-Reversed Configuration Power Plant Critical Issues; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, C.N. Nguyen, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, June 1998. (7 pages, 281 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1129   Final Report for the Field-Reversed Configuration Power Plant Critical-Issue Scoping Study; J.F. Santarius, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, C.N. Nguyen, S.V. Ryzhkov, M.D. Stubna, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, March 2000. (72 pages, 2.4 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1130   Field-Reversed Configurations for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, June 2000 [presented at the 31st AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 19-22 June 2000, Denver CO].

UWFDM-1209   Final Report for Research on Magnetized-Target Fusion for Space Propulsion; John F. Santarius and Mohamed E. Sawan, July 2003. (100 pages, 2.3 MB)

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