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-291 UNCER: A University of Wisconsin Version of Uncertainty Files Processor for ENDF/B-V; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, February 1979. (38 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-1257 US Plans and Strategy for ITER Blanket Testing; M. Abdou, D. Sze, C. Wong, M. Sawan, A. Ying, N. Morley, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 475-487]. (16 pages, 2.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-404 UVIEW - A Processor to Display the University of Wisconsin 25 Neutron-21 Gamma Group Cross Section Library; K.E. Hammer and G.A. Moses, March 1981. (44 pages, 2.5 MB)
UWFDM-721 UWEOSPAC: A Subroutine Package for Accessing MIXERG-Generated SESAME-Formatted Multigroup Opacity Tables; R.W. Holzer, March 1987. (30 pages, 1.4 MB)
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-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-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-550 UWTOR-M - A Conceptual Modular Stellarator Power Reactor; B. Badger, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.W. Van Sciver, G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Emmert, D.T. Anderson, A.W. Bailey, J.D. Callen, J.A. Derr, L. El-Guebaly, K.J. Lee, J.L. Shohet, D.K. Sze, R.C. Sanders, J. Tataronis, and K.Y. Yuan, October 1982. (449 pages, 14 MB)
UWFDM-439 UWTOR-M, A Stellarator Power Reactor Utilizing Modular Coils; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.W. Van Sciver, G.L. Kulcinski, D.T. Anderson, A.W. Bailey, J.D. Callen, J.A. Derr, G.A. Emmert, L. El-Guebaly, A. Khalil, J.L. Shohet, D.K. Sze, R.C. Sanders, J. Tataronis, K. Yuan, October 1981 [presented at 3rd Technical Committee and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 5-16, 1981]. (21 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-678 Unfavorable Responses of Burning Plasma to a Perturbation of Fueling Rate; Yoichi Watanabe, April 1986. (18 pages, 884 kB)
UWFDM-172 Uniformity of Illumination of Spherical Laser Fusion Targets; J.E. Howard, August 20, 1976. (49 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-23 University of Wisconsin Fusion Design Studies; H.K. Forsen and C.W. Maynard, July 1972. (23 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-46 University of Wisconsin Tokamak Power Reactor Design; C.W. Maynard, R.W. Conn, and H.K. Forsen, May 1973 [presented at the VI European Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, July 30-August 3, 1973, Moscow, USSR]. (8 pages, 746 kB)
UWFDM-99 Use of Electrical Insulation in Lithium-Cooled Fusion Reactor Blankets; D.K. Sze and W.E. Stewart, April 1974 [presented at the 1st Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, San Diego CA, 14-18 April 1974]. (17 pages, 928 kB)
UWFDM-479 User's Manual for ``HERAD'' - ``Heterogeneous Radiation Damage'' Monte Carlo Computer Code; H. Attaya and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1982. (58 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-88 VARIED: A Computer Program for Variational Neutronics Calculations; E.T. Cheng and Robert W. Conn, December 1973. (38 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-590 Vacancy Cluster Evolution in Metals Under Irradiation; M.F. Wehner and W.G. Wolfer, August 1984 (revised January 1985). (40 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-24 Vacuum System Design; J.M. Donhowe, August 1972. (9 pages, 641 kB)
UWFDM-65 Vacuum System Design; J.M. Donhowe, August 1973. (14 pages, 807 kB)
UWFDM-209 Validation Study of UNIVAC-1110 Version of the CTR-PMCS-Nuclear Data Library & Codes Package; Y. Gohar, C.W. Maynard, and T. Wu, June 1977. (64 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-1086 Validation of the ALARA Activation Code; P.P.H. Wilson, H. Tsige-Tamirat, H.Y. Khater, D.L. Henderson, June 1998 [Presented at the 13th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, June 7-11, 1998, Nashville TN]. (6 pages, 305 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1206 Validation of the ALARA Activation Code for Arbitrary Irradiation Schedules; P. Phruksarojanakun, P.P.H. Wilson, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington DC]. (7 pages, 691 kB)
UWFDM-565 Vapor Condensation in the Presence of a Noncondensable Gas; Lichung Pong and G.A. Moses, July 1984 (revised January 1985) [published in Physics of Fluids 29 (6) 1796-1804 (June 1986)]. (37 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-422 Vaporization and Melting of Materials in Fusion Devices; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and W.G. Wolfer, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 321-326 (1981)]. (9 pages, 819 kB)
UWFDM-505 Vaporization of Pb and Li Films in ICF Reaction Chambers; A.M. Hassanein, C.D. Croessmann, and G.L. Kulcinski, May 1983 [Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4 (1983) 849]. (8 pages, 687 kB)
UWFDM-490 Variational Calculation of the Trapping Rate in Thermal Barriers; X.Z. Li and G.A. Emmert, October 1982. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)
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-1208 Verification and Analysis of the Radiation Transport Packages in the BUCKY 1-D Radiation-Hydrodynamics Code; Gregory A. Rochau, June 2003. (89 pages, 1.7 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-617 Vibration Analysis of LIBRA INPORTs; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Technology, 8, 1884-1889 (July 1985)]. (8 pages, 720 kB)
UWFDM-785 Vibration and Stability of Vertical Tubes Conveying Fluid Subjected to Planar Excitation; R.L. Engelstad, May 1988 [Ph.D. thesis]. (202 pages, 5.4 MB)
UWFDM-748 Viewgraphs Presented at the Third Inertial Confinement Fusion Systems and Applications Colloquium, 9-11 November 1987, Madison, Wisconsin; R.R. Peterson, Compiling Editor, November 1987. (350 pages, 17 MB)
UWFDM-1245 Views on Neutronics and Activation Issues Facing Liquid-Protected IFE Chambers; L. El-Guebaly, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 544-548]. (8 pages, 848 kB)
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-645 Void Nucleation and Phase Stability in Heavy Ion Irradiated Materials; D.L. Plumton, August 1985 [Ph.D. thesis]. (304 pages, 26 MB)
UWFDM-283 Void Swelling and Phase Instability in Heavy Ion Irradiated Mo-Zr Alloy; K.Y. Liou, P. Wilkes, G.L. Kulcinski, and J.H. Billen, January 1979. (6 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-297 Void Swelling and Phase Instability in Heavy Ion Irradiated Mo-Zr Alloy; K-Y. Liou, P. Wilkes, G.L. Kulcinski, and J.H. Billen, January 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 735 (1979)]. (6 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-1378 W-Based Alloys for Advanced Divertor Designs: Detailed Activation and Radiation Damage Analyses; A. Robinson, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, October 2010 (revised December 2010). (23 pages, 653 kB)
UWFDM-1396 W-Based Alloys for Advanced Divertor Designs: Options and Environmental Impact of State-of-the-Art Alloys; L. El-Guebaly, R. Kurtz, M. Reith, H. Kurishita, A. Robinson, November 2010 [presented at 19th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, November 7-11, 2010, Las Vegas NV. Published in Fusion Science and Technology 60, Number 1 (July 2011) 185-189.]. [more]
UWFDM-477 WHISTEL: A Stellarator Transport Code; G.A. Emmert, K.J. Lee, and A. Bailey, September 1982. (28 pages, 1.3 MB)