Publications

UWFDM-683   Materials Testing in the ICF Test Facility SIRIUS-M; M.E. Sawan and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1986 [Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 14-17 April 1986, Chicago, IL; J. Nucl. Matl. 141-143 (1986) 1039]. (23 pages, 1.1 MB)

MHD Effects on Vapor Flow in a Conductive Fluid (Experimental Work in Support of the APEX - EVOLVE Reactor Concept); M. Anderson, P. Brooks, M. Sawan, I. Sviatoslavsky, M. Corradini and APEX Task IV Members, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC]. (1 page, 3.7 MB)

MHD Effects on Vapor Distribution within Boiling Liquid Metals (experimental work in support of the APEX-EVOLVE reactor concept); M. Anderson, P. Brooks, M. Sawan, I. Sviatoslavsky, M. Corradini, APEX Task IV Members, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, San Diego, CA, 7-12 April 2002]. (1 page, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-1132   Linked Neutronics and Hydrodynamics Calculations for the Z Pinch Driven Target of X-1; M.E. Sawan and R.R. Peterson, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (7 pages, 267 kB)

UWFDM-627   Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility Preliminary Design; R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, R.L. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.J. Watrous, R.E. Olson, D.L. Cook, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Technology 8, 1895-1900 (July 1985)]. (9 pages, 842 kB) [more]

UWFDM-713   Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility Studies: Progress Report for the Period October 1, 1985 to October 31, 1986; B. Badger, H. Attaya, T.J. Bartel, D. Bruggink, R.L. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, J.J. Watrous, October 1986. (97 pages, 3.1 MB)

UWFDM-752   Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility Studies: Progress Report for the Period November 1, 1986 to October 31, 1987; B. Badger, D. Bruggink, R.L. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, O. Yasar, January 1988. (69 pages, 2.9 MB)

FPA-94-6   LIBRA-SP: A Self-Consistent Design of a Commercial Fusion Power Plant Based on Self-Pinched Propagation of Ions; Final Report for Calendar Year 1994; B. Badger, D. Bruggink, P. Cousseau, R.L. Engelstad, Y-M. Lee, H.Y. Khater, G.L. Kulcinski, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, L.J. Wittenberg, C.L. Olson, R.E. Olson, December 1994. (129 pages, 4.0 MB) [more]

UWFDM-982   LIBRA-SP, A Light Ion Fusion Power Reactor Design Study Utilizing a Self-Pinched Mode of Ion Propagation - Report for the Period Ending June 30, 1995; B. Badger, D. Bruggink, P. Cousseau, R.L. Engelstad, Y-M. Lee, H.Y. Khater, G.L. Kulcinski, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, L.J. Wittenberg, C.L. Olson, R.E. Olson, June 1995. (192 pages, 7.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1026   LIBRA-SP, A Commercial Fusion Reactor Based on Near Term Technology; G.L. Kulcinski, P. Cousseau, R.L. Engelstad, H.Y. Khater, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, June 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV]. (8 pages, 634 kB)

FPA-96-7   LIBRA-SP, A Commercial Fusion Reactor Based on Near Term Technology; G.L. Kulcinski, P. Cousseau, R.L. Engelstad, H.Y. Khater, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, June 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV (also UWFDM-1026)].

UWFDM-880   LIBRA-LiTE: A Commercial Light Ion Fusion Power Plant, Final Report for Calendar Year 1991; B. Badger, B. Choi, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, G. Sviatoslavsky, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, December 1991 [also FPA-91-4]. (125 pages, 33 MB)

UWFDM-857   LIBRA-LiTE: A 1000 MWe Reactor; G.L. Kulcinski, R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, June 1991 [published in J. Fusion Energy, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1991, pp. 339-344]. (13 pages, 1.1 MB)

FPA-91-2   LIBRA-LiTE: A 1000 MWe Reactor; G.L. Kulcinski, R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, June 1991 [published in J. Fusion Energy, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1991, pp. 339-344 (also UWFDM-857)].

UWFDM-864   LIBRA-LiTE, A Light Ion Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor With Ballistic Ion Propagation; R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, September 1991 [Presented at the 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 30 September - 3 October 1991, San Diego CA]. (6 pages, 585 kB)

FPA-91-3   LIBRA-LiTE, A Light Ion Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor With Ballistic Ion Propagation; R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, September 1991 [Presented at the 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 30 September - 3 October 1991, San Diego, CA] [also UWFDM-864].

FPA-91-4   LIBRA-LiTE, A Commercial Light Ion Fusion Power Plant; Final Report for Calendar Year 1991; B. Badger, B. Choi, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, G. Sviatoslavsky, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, December 1991 [also UWFDM-880].

UWFDM-898   LIBRA-LiTE, A Ballistic Focus Light Ion Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor; R.R. Peterson, D. Bruggink, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, May 1992 [presented at Beams'92, 25-29 May 1992, Washington DC]. (10 pages, 847 kB)

FPA-92-7   LIBRA-LiTE, A Ballistic Focus Light Ion Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor; R.R. Peterson, D. Bruggink, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, S. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, May 1992 [presented at Beams '92, 25-29 May 1992, Washington, DC] [also UWFDM-898].

UWFDM-787   LIBRA - A Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Conceptual Design; G.A. Moses, G.L. Kulcinski, D. Bruggink, R. Engelstad, E. Lovell, J. MacFarlane, Z. Musicki, R. Peterson, M. Sawan, I. Sviatoslavsky, L. Wittenberg, G. Kessler, U. von Moellendorff, E. Stein, I. Smith, P. Corcoran, H. Nishimoto, J. Fockler, D. Cook, R. Olson, July 1988. (16 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]

FPA-88-3   LIBRA - A Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Conceptual Design; G.A. Moses, G.L. Kulcinski, D. Bruggink, R. Engelstad, E. Lovell, J. MacFarlane, Z. Musicki, R. Peterson, M. Sawan, I. Sviatoslavsky, L. Wittenberg, G. Kessler, U. von Moellendorff, E. Stein, I. Smith, P. Corcoran, H. Nishimoto, J. Fockler, D. Cook and R. Olson, July 1988 [presented at Beams 88, 7th International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams, Kongresszentrum, Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, 4-7 July 1988] [also UWFDM-787]. [more]

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]

Isochoric Nuclear Heating and Design Implications; L. El-Guebaly and M. Sawan, May 2003 [presented at the Liquid Wall Chamber Dynamic Workshop, May 5-6, 2003, Livermore CA]. (12 pages, 1.4 MB)

Is it Possible to Have a TBR > 1.0 in a Small ICF Materials Test Facility?; M.E. Sawan, G.L. Kulcinski, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, November 2005 [presented at the High Average Power Laser Program Workshop, 8-9 November 2005, University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester NY]. (7 pages, 965 kB)

Investigation of Observed Peaking in Nuclear Parameters at Steel/Water Interfaces; T.D. Bohm, M.E. Sawan, B. Smith, P. Wilson, November 2010 [presented at the 19th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 7-11 November 2010, Las Vegas NV]. (1 page, 1.8 MB)

Integration of Nuclear, Economics, and Safety Constraints in ARIES-CS Compact Stellarator; L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, T. Tautges, M. Sawan, G. Sviatoslavsky, B. Kiedrowski, R. Slaybaugh, A. Ibrahim, M. Wang, C. Martin, R. Raffray, S. Malang, J. Lyon, L.P. Ku, X. Wang, L. Bromberg, B. Merrill, L. Waganer, F. Najmabadi, and the ARIES-CS Team, March 2008 [presented at the U.S.-Japan Workshop on Power Plant Studies and Advanced Technologies, 5-7 March 2008, San Diego CA]. (27 pages, 18 MB) [more]

Innovative 3-D Neutronics Analyses Directly Coupled with CAD Models of Geometrically Complex Fusion Systems; M. Sawan, P. Wilson, T. Tautges, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, T. Bohm, G. Sviatoslavsky, B. Kiedrowski, A. Ibrahim, B. Smith, R. Slaybaugh, June 2007 [presented at the 13th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems, ICENES2007, 3-8 June 2007, Istanbul, Turkey]. (24 pages, 5.7 MB) [more]

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]

UWFDM-1111   Initial Nuclear Performance Evaluation of the FIRE Ignition Device; M.E. Sawan and H.Y. Khater, October 1999 [Presented at the 18th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, Albuquerque NM, 25-29 October 1999]. (7 pages, 640 kB)

Improved Geometrical Design of the US DCLL ITER Test Blanket Module; E. Marriott, M. Dagher, M. Sawan, C. Wong, June 2011 [presented at the 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 26--30 June 2011, Chicago IL]. (1 page, 2.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1176   Impact of Tritium Removal and He-3 Recycling on Structure Damage Parameters in a D-D Fusion System; M.E. Sawan, S.J. Zinkle, J. Sheffield, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, 7-12 April 2002, San Diego CA; published in Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 61-62, pp. 561-567 (2002)]. (15 pages, 216 kB) [more]

Impact of Tritium Removal and He-3 Recycling on Structure Damage Parameters in a D-D Fusion System; M.E. Sawan, S.J. Zinkle, J. Sheffield, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, San Diego, CA, 7-12 April 2002]. (1 page, 332 kB) [more]

Impact of FENDL-2.1 Updates on Nuclear Analysis of ITER and Other Fusion Systems; M.E. Sawan and T.D. Bohm, April 2010 [presented at the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology 2010 (ND2010), 26-30 April 2010, Jeju, Korea]. (1 page, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-1400   Impact of FENDL-2.1 Updates on Nuclear Analysis of ITER and Other Fusion Systems; M.E. Sawan and T.D. Bohm, August 2011 [published in Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 1158-1161].

Impact of ENDF/B-VII.0 Release on Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library FENDL-2.1; M.E. Sawan, September 2008 [presented at the 18th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA]. (1 page, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-1346   Impact of ENDF/B-VII.0 Release on Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library FENDL-2.1; M.E. Sawan, September 2008 [presented at the 18th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA].

Impact of ENDF/B-VII.0 Release on FENDL-2.1; Mohamed Sawan, Edward Marriott, November 2007 [presented at the Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) Meeting, 6-8 November 2007, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island NY]. (19 pages, 4.2 MB)

ITER Test Blanket Module Program; M.E. Sawan, December 9, 2003 [FTI Tuesday meeting]. (24 pages, 3.2 MB)

ITER Neutronics Modeling Using Hybrid Monte Carlo/Deterministic Techniques and CAD Based Monte Carlo; A.M. Ibrahim, S.W. Mosher, T.M. Evans, D.E. Peplow, M.E. Sawan, P.P.H. Wilson, J.C. Wagner, April 2010 [presented at the American Nuclear Society Radiation Protection and Shielding Division Topical Meeting, 19 April 2010, Las Vegas, NV]. (23 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1399   ITER Neutronics Modeling Using Hybrid Monte Carlo Deterministic and CAD-Based Monte Carlo Methods; A.M. Ibrahim, S.W. Mosher, T.M. Evans, D.E. Peplow, M.E. Sawan, P.P.H. Wilson, J.C. Wagner, T. Heltemes, July 2011 [published in Nuclear Technology Vol. 175 (July 2011) 251--258]. [more]

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