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-17 Neutron and Gamma Physics Problems in Fusion Reactors; C.W. Maynard and M.A. Abdou, July 1972. (17 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-9 Neutron Wall Current and Energy Considerations for Alternate Fusion Fuel Cycles and Reactor Approaches; H.K. Forsen and D.G. McAlees, February 1972. (15 pages, 857 kB)
UWFDM-6 Neutron Source Geometry Effects on Fusion Reactor Blankets; M. Abdou and C.W. Maynard, February 1972. (7 pages, 598 kB)
UWFDM-310 Neutron Moderation in ICF Pellets and Effects on Damage and Radioactive Inventory; F. Beranek and R.W. Conn, May 1979. (20 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-591 Neutron Measurements for Biomedical and Fusion Technology Applications; H.H. Barschall, August 1984 [Prepared for Conference on Neutron Nucleus Collisions - A Probe of Nuclear Structure, Burr Oak State Park, Glouster, OH, 5-8 September 1984 (AIP Conference Proc. 124 (1985) 286)]. (14 pages, 972 kB)
UWFDM-34 Neutron Irradiation Damage to the Metallic Components of UWCTR Magnet System; P. Sanger, February 1973. (85 pages, 4.3 MB)
UWFDM-512 Neutron Activation and Shielding of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; K.J. O'Brien, G.A. Moses, and A.M. White, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN; Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4, 883 (1983)]. (8 pages, 723 kB)
UWFDM-647 Neutral Transport Calculations for Tandem Mirror Halo Plasmas; B.Q. Deng and G.A. Emmert, September 1985. (22 pages, 847 kB)
UWFDM-1117 Neutral Particle Integral Transport in Inertial Confinement Fusion Systems Using Time Dependent Integral Transport Methods; K.R. Olson, December 1999 [Ph.D. thesis]. (268 pages, 2.8 MB)
UWFDM-53 Neutral Beam Heating and Energy Balance Studies in CTR Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, D.G. McAlees, and G. Neil, July 1973. (8 pages, 668 kB)
UWFDM-226 Neutral Beam Divergence Due to Imperfect Magnetic Shielding; J.R. Conrad, November 1977. (27 pages, 989 kB)
UWFDM-1092 Net Energy Payback and CO2 Emissions from Wind-Generated Electricity in the Midwest; S.W. White and G.L. Kulcinski, December 1998. (78 pages, 745 kB)
UWFDM-1093 Net Energy Payback and CO2 Emissions from Helium-3 Fusion and Wind Electrical Power Plants; Scott W. White, December 1998 [Ph.D. thesis]. (182 pages, 7.9 MB)
UWFDM-1261 Net Energy Balance and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Renewable Energy Storage Systems; P.L. Denholm and G.L. Kulcinski, June 2003 [also Energy Center of Wisconsin Research Report 223-1, 2003]. (55 pages, 937 kB)
UWFDM-416 Neoclassical Ripple Transport in Tokamaks; K.C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, May 1981. (21 pages, 852 kB)
UWFDM-474 Neoclassical Flows and Transport in Nonaxisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas; K.C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, July 1982 (revised March 1983) [Phys. Fluids 26, 3315 (1983)]. (47 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-1155 Need for Special Burning Module in Fusion Devices to Transmute Fusion High-Level Waste; L.A. El-Guebaly, June 2002. (14 pages, 337 kB)
UWFDM-1372 Need for Online Adjustment of Tritium Bred in Blanket and Implications for ARIES Power Plants; L.A. El-Guebaly, S. Malang, and the ARIES Team, July 2009 [Proceedings of 3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plants: Design and Technology, July 13-15, 2009, Vienna, Austria. To be published by IAEA.]. (9 pages, 261 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1080 Need for Inboard Shield to Protect the Center Post of ST Power Plants; L.A. El-Guebaly, H.Y. Khater and the ARIES Team, June 1998 [Presented at the 13th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, June 7-11, 1998, Nashville TN]. (7 pages, 493 kB)
UWFDM-1025 Near Term Commercial Opportunities from Long Range Fusion Research; G.L. Kulcinski, June 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV]. (12 pages, 357 kB)
UWFDM-1036 National Ignition Facility Target Area Studies Final Report for the Period 4/1/96 through 11/30/96; R.R. Peterson, J.F. Santarius, G.A. Moses, January 1997. (31 pages, 838 kB)
UWFDM-249 NUWMAK: An Attractive Medium Field, Medium Size, Conceptual Tokamak Reactor; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, and C.W. Maynard, May 1978 [Proc. 3rd ANS Top. Mtg., 1049 (1978)]. (14 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-330a NUWMAK - A Tokamak Reactor Design Study - Chapter I (Design Philosophy) & II (Overview and Summary); B. Badger, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, J. Beyer, D. Blackfield, E. Cameron, E. Cheng, R.W. Conn, G.A. Emmert, M. Gordinier, S. Hong, J. Kesner, A. Klein, G.L. Kulcinski, L. Lao, E. Larsen, L.P. Mai, T.K. Mau, C.W. Maynard, P. Michaelson, G. O'Donnell, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, J. Scharer, D.C. Schluderberg, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, T. Thornton, W.F. Vogelsang, P. Wilkes, J. Williams, T. Wu, J. Wrazel, and W.C. Young, March 1979. (41 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-330 NUWMAK - A Tokamak Reactor Design Study; B. Badger, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, J. Beyer, D. Blackfield, R.W. Boom, E. Cameron, E. Cheng, R.W. Conn, G.A. Emmert, M. Gordinier, S. Hong, J. Kesner, A. Klein, G.L. Kulcinski, L. Lao, E. Larsen, L.P. Mai, T.K. Mau, C.W. Maynard, P. Michaelson, G. O'Donnell, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, J. Scharer, D.C. Schluderberg, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, T. Thornton, W.F. Vogelsang, P. Wilkes, J. Williams, T. Wu, J. Wrazel, and W.C. Young, March 1979. (756 pages, 28 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1050 NLTERT - A Collisional-Radiative Code for Computing the Radiative Properties of Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, August 1997. (111 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-931 NLTERT - A Code for Computing the Radiative Properties of Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, December 1993. (66 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-629 NEWLIT - A General Code for Neutron Wall Loading Distribution; H. Attaya and M. Sawan, 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)]. (9 pages, 824 kB)
UWFDM-1282 Monte Carlo Techniques for the Comprehensive Modeling of Isotopic Inventories in Future Nuclear Systems and Fuel Cycles; P. Phruksarojanakun, P.P.H. Wilson, October 2005. (88 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-207 Monte Carlo Study of Asymmetry Effects in a Lithium Oxide Blanket for a Laser Driven Reactor; M.H. Ragheb, E.T. Cheng, and R.W. Conn, June 1977. (32 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-453 Monte Carlo Studies of Charge-Exchange First Wall Heat Fluxes from the TDF Neutral Beams; L. John Perkins, June 1983. (24 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-265 Monte Carlo Statistical Weighting Methods for External-Source-Driven Multiplying Systems; M. Ragheb and C.W. Maynard, October 1978 [Proc. of the ANS Topical Mtg. on Computational Methods in Nuclear Engr., April 1979, Williamsburg, VA, 11, 7-11 (1979)]. (26 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-1323 Monte Carlo Isotopic Inventory Analysis for Complex Nuclear Systems; Phiphat Phruksarojanakun, January 2007 [Ph.D. thesis]. (156 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1277 Monte Carlo Charged Particle Tracking and Energy Deposition on a Lagrangian Mesh; J. Yuan, G.A. Moses and P.W. McKenty, August 2005 [submitted to Physical Review E]. (27 pages, 907 kB) [more]
UWFDM-79 Monte Carlo Calculations for a Fusion Reactor Blanket and Shield; L.A. El-Guebaly and C.W. Maynard, January 1974 [Trans. ANS 18, 25 (1974)]. (40 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-1412 Monte Carlo Adjoint Transport and Adjoint Activation for Biological Dose Calculations and Pathway Analysis; Amir Ebrahim Jaber, May 2012 [M.S. thesis]. (128 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-851 Molten-Lithium/Water Interaction Experiments: Explosive Reactions and Reaction Rate Measurements; S.W. Lomperski, May 1991 [Ph.D. thesis]. (191 pages, 7.6 MB)
UWFDM-498 Modular Coil Design for UWTOR-M Stellarator Reactor; K.Y. Yuan, R. Sanders, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and S.W. Van Sciver, December 1982 [presented at the 1982 Applied Superconductivity Conference, Knoxville, TN, November 30 - December 3, 1982]. (8 pages, 724 kB)
UWFDM-601 Modification of Transverse Invariants; K.J. O'Brien and G.A. Moses, October 1984. (55 pages, 2.7 MB)
UWFDM-559 Modelling of Lithium-Lead/Water Interactions in a Fusion Reactor Design; J.P. Herzog and M.L. Corradini, September 1983 (revised August 1984). (116 pages, 4.2 MB)
UWFDM-365 Modelling of Bundle Divertors - II; G.A. Emmert and A.W. Bailey, July 1980. (16 pages, 753 kB)