University of Wisconsin Fusion Design Memos (UWFDM)

The UWFDM series of technical reports details the research of the Fusion Technology Institute from 1971 to the present. Over 800 authors have contributed more than 60000 pages to the 1400 reports. Nearly all are online.
Publications
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UWFDM-326 Radiation-Induced Creep in Single Crystals of Face-Centered Cubic Materials; W.G. Wolfer, October 1979 [Phil. Mag. A31, 61-70 (1981)]. (33 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-537 Radiative Heat Transfer in Self-Shielding Vapor Layer During Tokamak Disruptions; R.R. Peterson, August 1983. (28 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-853 Radiative Properties and Line Trapping Effects in Post-Explosion Inertial Fusion Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, June 1991 [Phys. Fluids B 3 (1991) 3494]. (44 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-178 Radioactivity and Associated Problems in Thermonuclear Reactors; W.F. Vogelsang, September 1976. (19 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-628 Radioactivity in the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; D.L. Henderson, R.R. Peterson, and G.A. Moses, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Tech. 8, (July 1985) 1396]. (9 pages, 809 kB)
UWFDM-734 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Chamber and Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; O. Yasar, M.E. Sawan, D.L. Henderson, G.A. Moses, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 767 kB)
UWFDM-726 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Chamber and Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; O. Yasar, M.E. Sawan, D.L. Henderson, G.A. Moses, July 1987. (31 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-707 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; D.L. Henderson, M.E. Sawan and G.A. Moses, October 1986 [Fus. Tech. 13 (May 1988) 594]. (60 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-965 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator Upgrade (PBFA-U); H.Y. Khater and M.E. Sawan, June 1994 [presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, June 26 - July 1, 1994, Los Angeles CA; to be published in Fusion Engineering and Design]. (17 pages, 580 kB)
UWFDM-1024 Radiological Dose Rate Calculations for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER); H.Y. Khater and R.T. Santoro, June 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV]. (8 pages, 615 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1227 Radiological Impacts of IFE Target and RTL Recycling Option: A Comparative Study; L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, M. Sawan, D. Henderson, A. Varuttamaseni and the ARIES and Z-Pinch Teams, July 2004. (19 pages, 788 kB)
UWFDM-1217 Radiological Issues for Thin Liquid Walls of ARIES-IFE Study; L.A. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, L. Waganer, R. Raffray, and the ARIES Team, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 405 (2003)]. (8 pages, 634 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1195 Radwaste Volume in Lithium and Flibe Thick Liquid Wall and Comparison to Conventional SW Concepts; M. Youssef and M. Sawan, 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. 63-64, pp. 263-269 (2002)]. [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-1329 Recent Accomplishments and Future Directions in the US Fusion Safety and Environmental Program; D.A. Petti, B.J. Merrill, J.P. Sharpe, L.C. Cadwallader, L. El-Guebaly, S. Reyes, June 2007 [published in Nuclear Fusion 47 (2007) 427-435]. [more]
UWFDM-1296 Recent Developments in Environmental Aspects of D-3He Fueled Fusion Devices; Laila El-Guebaly and Massimo Zucchetti, October 2006 (revised April 2008) [published in Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 82, 4 (2007) 351-361]. (27 pages, 630 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1218 Recent Progress in Steady State Fusion Using D-3He; R.P. Ashley, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, S. Krupakar Murali, G.R. Piefer, B.B. Cipiti, R.F. Radel, J. Weidner, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 564 (2003)]. (5 pages, 661 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-1232 Recycling Issues Facing Target and RTL Materials of Inertial Fusion Designs; L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, M. Sawan, D. Henderson, A. Varuttamaseni and the ARIES and Z-Pinch Teams, July 2004 [presented at the 15th International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion, 7-11 June 2004, Princeton, NJ; Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Journal, Section A, 544 (2005) 104-110]. (12 pages, 652 kB)
UWFDM-1284 Recycling and Clearance of the Slightly Activated RTLs of the 2005 Z-Pinch Design; L.A. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, M.E. Sawan, October 2005. (10 pages, 725 kB)
UWFDM-1183 Recycling of IFE Target Materials versus One-Shot Use Scenario: Key Issues and Preferred Option; L.A. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, A. Varuttamaseni and the ARIES Team, November 2002. (24 pages, 978 kB)
UWFDM-895 Reduced Activation Stainless Steels for Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, January 1992 [presented at the US-USSR Workshop on D-3He Reactor Studies, 25 September - 2 October 1991, Moscow]. (15 pages, 192 kB)
UWFDM-1055 Reducing the Barriers to Fusion Electric Power; G.L. Kulcinski and J.F. Santarius, October 1997 [Presented at "Pathways to Fusion Power", August 27-29, 1997, Snowmass Village CO; published in Journal of Fusion Energy, 17, 17 (1998)]. (16 pages, 637 kB)
UWFDM-907 Relativistic Configuration Interaction Calculations of K-alpha Satellite Properties for Aluminum Ions; Ping Wang, J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, September 1992 [submitted to Phys. Rev]. (26 pages, 377 kB)
UWFDM-716 Reliability Analysis of Phaedrus; Yoichi Watanabe, January 1987. (70 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-147 Reliability of Pool Cooling for Tokamak Fusion Reactor Magnets; R.L. Willig and M.A. Hilal, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 756 kB)
UWFDM-689 Repetition Rates in Heavy Ion Beam Driven Fusion Reactors; Robert R. Peterson, May 1986 [presented at International Symposium on Heavy Ion Fusion, 27-29 May 1986, Washington D.C.]. (12 pages, 857 kB)
UWFDM-414 Report to Sandia Laboratory on University of Wisconsin Fusion Engineering Program Design Activities for the Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility from August 1980 to August 1981; B. Badger, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, T.J. McCarville, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and M.A. Sweeney, September 1981. (77 pages, 2.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-457 Report to Sandia Laboratory on University of Wisconsin Fusion Engineering Program Design Activities for the Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility from August 1981 to February 1982; B. Badger, R.L. Engelstad, A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, K.J. Lee, E.G. Lovell, T.J. McCarville, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and A. White, February 1982. (174 pages, 5.5 MB)
UWFDM-293 Research on Microsphere Fabrication and Coolant Loop Technology for Lithium Oxide Moving Bed Fusion Power Plant; T.A. Thornton, D.C. Schluderberg, D.K. Sze, and F.A. Zenz, February 1979. (8 pages, 891 kB) [more]
UWFDM-224 Resistance to Strain Degradation in Preliminary UWMAK TF Coil Conductors for Fusion Reactors; S.O. Hong, P.F. Michaelson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and W.C. Young, November 1977. (21 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-221 Response of First Walls in Inertial Confinement Reactors to Thermonuclear Radiation; T.O. Hunter, S.I. Abdel-Khalik and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1977 [2nd IAEA Conference on Fusion Reactor Design, Madison, WI, October 1977, p. 573 (1978)]. (19 pages, 863 kB)
UWFDM-1018 Response of National Ignition Facility First Wall Materials to Target X Rays and Debris; R.R. Peterson, May 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV]. (8 pages, 533 kB)
UWFDM-1088 Response of X-1 Experiment Chamber to Target Explosions; R.R. Peterson and J.F. Santarius, June 1998 [Presented at the 13th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, June 7-11, 1998, Nashville TN]. (5 pages, 328 kB)
UWFDM-485 Response of a Liquid Metal Test Blanket for the MFTF-B+T Device; M.E. Sawan, Jin-Hua Huang, G.L. Kulcinski, Yaotong Li, K.E. Plute, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, and A. White, September 7, 1982. (24 pages, 985 kB)
UWFDM-1099 Response of the Fusion Technology Institute to the Paper `High-Temperature Carbon-Irradiation Issues for the SOMBRERO ICF Reactor' by Tobin Munsat, Rion Causey, Mike Ulrickson, and Ken Wilson; G.L. Kulcinski, R.R. Peterson, L.J. Wittenberg, E.A. Mogahed, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, May 1999. (18 pages, 884 kB)
UWFDM-952 Response of the National Ignition Facility Target Chamber Walls to the Microexplosion of a Fusion Target; R.R. Peterson, J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, May 1994 [Prepared for the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, June 19-23, 1994, New Orleans LA]. (8 pages, 580 kB)
UWFDM-989 Results of the Activation Analysis of the Stellarator Power Plant Study; H.Y. Khater and the ARIES Team, September 1995 [Presented at the 16th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 1-5 October 1995, Champaign IL]. (7 pages, 627 kB)
UWFDM-999 Results of the Neutronics and Shielding Calculational Benchmark; M.E. Sawan, December 1995 [Presented at the IAEA Advisory Group Meeting on ``Completion of FENDL-1 and Start of FENDL-2'', Del Mar, CA, 5-9 December 1995]. (16 pages, 486 kB)
UWFDM-1190 Return to the Moon; Harrison H. Schmitt, December 2002 [Accepted essay for a forthcoming book, ``Our Worlds 2,'' edited by Alan Stern]. (10 pages, 907 kB)