Publications

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UWFDM-8   Radiation Blistering in Niobium; J.M. Donhowe, D.E. Klarstrom, M.L. Sundquist, and W.J. Weber, February 1972. (8 pages, 710 kB) [more]

UWFDM-15   Comparison of Displacement and Gas Production Rates in Current Fission and Future Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, D.G. Doran, and M.A. Abdou, May 1972 (revised April 1974). (44 pages, 1.9 MB) [more]

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-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]

UWFDM-52   Materials Radiation Damage Limitations in the Wisconsin Fusion Reactor Design; G.L. Kulcinski, R.G. Brown, R.G. Lott, and P.A. Sanger, July 1973. (18 pages, 1.9 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-94   Tritium Inventory Considerations in Lithium Blankets; L.J. Wittenberg, W.F. Vogelsang, and A.B. Johnson, Jr., April 1974 [presented at the 1st Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, San Diego CA, 14-18 April 1974]. (16 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]

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-111   Mirror Instabilities in Divertors; A.T. Mense, J.D. Callen, and G.A. Emmert, September 1974. (15 pages, 802 kB) [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-119   A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor; R.W. Conn and D.L. Jassby, March 1975. (39 pages, 2.0 MB) [more]

UWFDM-120   A Fusion Design Study of Non-Mobile Blankets with Low Lithium and Tritium Inventories; M.A. Abdou, C.W. Maynard, and L.J. Wittenberg, November 1, 1974. (54 pages, 2.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-131   A Plan for Obtaining Timely Neutron Radiation Damage Information for Experimental Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, H.H. Barschall, J. Davis, and J.L. Straalsund, June 27, 1975. (60 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-138   Cavity Kinetics in Heavily Cold-Worked Ni in a Neutron Pulse; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1975. (39 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]

UWFDM-140   The Influence of First Wall Lifetime on the Cost of Electricity in UWMAK Type Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski and J.R. Young, October 20, 1975 [published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Radiation and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors, Gatlinburg TN, 1-3 October 1975]. (30 pages, 1.3 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-157   Tritium Handling, Breeding, and Containment in Two Conceptual Fusion Reactor Designs: UWMAK-II and UWMAK-III; R.G. Clemmer, E.M. Larsen, and L.J. Wittenberg, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (36 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]

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-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-179   Swelling of Metals Under Pulsed Irradiation; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (10 pages, 850 kB) [more]

UWFDM-180   Fully Dynamic Rate Theory (FDRT) Simulation of Radiation Induced Swelling of Metals; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (58 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-181   TRANSWELL (Version I) Computer Code Documentation; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (121 pages, 3.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-185   Gravity Circulated Solid Blanket Design for a Tokamak Fusion Reactor; D.K. Sze, D.C. Schluderberg, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, September 1976. (14 pages, 973 kB) [more]

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-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-199   Critical Assessment of Pulse Annealing; N. Ghoniem and G. Kulcinski, March 1977. (33 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-200   Calibration of the Fully Dynamic Rate Theory Using the Computer Code TRANSWELL; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, March 1977. (68 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-203   The Importance of Material and Irradiation Parameters on Void Growth in Metals - Part I: The Effect of Displacement Rate and Cascade Efficiency; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1977. (128 pages, 4.6 MB) [more]

UWFDM-211   PL3 - A 3-Dimensional Plotting Program; N. Ghoniem and E. Anderson, June 1977. (40 pages, 1.4 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-227   Fast Magnetosonic Wave Heating of the NUWMAK Tokamak Reactor; J.E. Scharer, D.T. Blackfield, J.B. Beyer, and T.K. Mau, May 1978. (142 pages, 4.9 MB) [more]

UWFDM-236   Comparative Features of Electrical Power Generation Based on Fission and Fusion Breeder Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, G. Kessler, J. Holdren, and W. Haefele, January 1978 [American Scientist 67, 78 (1979)]. (15 pages, 2.6 MB) [more]

UWFDM-285   Effect of Nickel and Nitrogen on Void Formation in Ion Bombarded Vanadium; R.G. Lott, G.L. Kulcinski, P. Wilkes, and H.V. Smith, Jr., March 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 751 (1979)]. (8 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-286   Swelling-Induced Stresses in Ion-Bombarded Surfaces: Effect of Crystalline Orientation; W.G. Wolfer and F.A. Garner, February 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 583 (1979)]. (10 pages, 898 kB) [more]

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-301a   Appendix - Detailed Summaries and Conclusions for Different Subsystems in SOLASE; 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. (30 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]

UWFDM-302   Void Growth Characteristics in Laser Fusion Reactor First Walls; N.M. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 547 (1979)]. (9 pages, 803 kB) [more]

UWFDM-311   A Critical Assessment of the Effects of Pulsed Irradiation on Materials; N.M. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, August 19, 1979 [Nucl. Technology/Fusion 2, 165 (1978)]. (95 pages, 3.9 MB) [more]

UWFDM-318   Self-Consistent Potential Variations in Thermal Barriers; J. Kesner, G. Knorr, D.R. Nicholson, April 1980. (40 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]

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]

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