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-840 Comparison of Tritium Production Reactors; L.J. Wittenberg, October 1990 [Presented at the 9th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-11 October 1990, Oak Brook IL]. (9 pages, 590 kB)
UWFDM-871 The Cost of Tritium Production in a Fusion Reactor; L.J. Wittenberg, November 1991 [presented at the 4th Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications, 29 September - 4 October 1991, Albuquerque, NM]. (8 pages, 534 kB)
UWFDM-961 The Early Sun: Precursor to Helium and Neon Isotopes in the Earth; L.J. Wittenberg, July 1994 [oral presentation at the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology and Isotope Geology, June 5-11, 1994, Berkeley CA]. (24 pages, 459 kB)
UWFDM-967 Non-Lunar 3He Resources; L.J. Wittenberg, July 1994 (revised July 1994) [presented at the Second Wisconsin Symposium on Helium-3 and Fusion Power, 19-21 July 1993, Madison WI]. (30 pages, 600 kB)
UWFDM-1127 A Reinvestigation of the Tritium Inventory in the Carbon Structure of the SOMBRERO Direct-Drive Conceptual Design Study; L.J. Wittenberg, March 2001. (11 pages, 215 kB)
UWFDM-212 New Analysis of First Wall Lifetime Considerations for Fusion Reactors; W. Wolfer and R.W. Conn, March 1977. (34 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-254 Formulation of Constitutive Laws for Deformation During Irradiation; W. Wolfer, July 1978 [ASTM-STP-683, 581-597 (1979)]. (29 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-258 Structural Performance of a Graphite Blanket in Fusion Reactors; W.G. Wolfer and R.D. Watson, June 1978. (74 pages, 2.4 MB)
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-312 Correlation of Radiation Creep Theory with Experimental Evidence; W.G. Wolfer, May 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 90, 175-192 (1980)]. (54 pages, 2.2 MB)
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-327 The Effect of Nonlinear Elasticity on the Capture Efficiency of Dislocation Loops; W.G. Wolfer and A. Si-Ahmed, October 1979 [Phys. Letts. 76A, 341-343 (1980)]. (11 pages, 713 kB)
UWFDM-329 The Capture Efficiency of Coated Voids; W.G. Wolfer and L.K. Mansur, November 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 91, 265-276 (1980)]. (38 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-347 The Role of Gas Pressure and Lateral Stress on Blistering; W.G. Wolfer, April 1980 [J. Nucl. Matls. 93 & 94, 713-730 (1980)]. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-350 High-Density Equation of State for Helium and Its Application to Bubbles in Solids; W.G. Wolfer, June 1980 [ASTM-STP, 201-212 (1981)]. (21 pages, 919 kB)
UWFDM-387 On the Coefficient for Bulk Recombination of Vacancies and Interstitials; W.G. Wolfer and A. Si-Ahmed, October 1980 [J. Nucl. Matls. 99, 117-123 (1981)]. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-411 The Effect of Density Changes on the Energy and Ion Deposition Profiles; W.G. Wolfer and M.E. Benchikh-Lehocine, April 1981 (revised January 1985). (12 pages, 652 kB)
UWFDM-429 Flow and Fracture of Alloys in the Fusion Environment; W.G. Wolfer and R.H. Jones, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 1305-1314 (1981)]. (14 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-434 A Novel Approach to Compute the Relaxation Volume of Self-Interstitials in Metals; W.G. Wolfer, August 1981. (22 pages, 961 kB)
UWFDM-470 On Melt Layer Stability Following A Plasma Disruption; W.G. Wolfer and A.M. Hassanein, May 1982 [J. Nucl. Matls. 111 & 112, 560-565 (1982)]. (23 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-471 Nucleation of Voids in Materials Supersaturated with Mobile Interstitials, Vacancies, and Divacancies; W.G. Wolfer and A. Si-Ahmed, May 1982 [Phil. Mag. A46, 723-736 (1982)]. (32 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-482 On Radiation-Induced Segregation and the Compositional Dependence of Swelling in Fe-Ni-Cr Alloys; W.G. Wolfer, F.A. Garner, and L.E. Thomas, September 1982 [11th ASTM Symposium on Effects of Radiation on Materials, Scottsdale, AZ, 28-30 June 1982; ASTM-STP-782, 1023-1041 (1981)]. (23 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-483 Drift Forces on Vacancies and Interstitials in Alloys with Radiation-Induced Segregation; W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [J. Nucl. Matls. 00, 0 (1982)]. (46 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-555 Advances in Void Swelling and Helium Bubble Physics; W.G. Wolfer, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983]. (15 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-556 Helium Equation of State for Small Cavities: Recent Developments; W.G. Wolfer, B.B. Glasgow, M.F. Wehner, and H. Trinkaus, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983]. (9 pages, 710 kB) [more]
UWFDM-602 Dislocation Evolution in Metals During Irradiation; W.G. Wolfer and B.B. Glasgow, October 1984 [submitted to Acta Met.]. (34 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-632 An Assessment of Radiation Effects in Beryllium; W.G. Wolfer and T.J. McCarville, 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)]. (11 pages, 915 kB)
UWFDM-1238 Assessment of First Wall and Blanket Options with the Use of Liquid Breeder; C.P.C. Wong, S. Malang, M. Sawan, S. Smolentsev, S. Majumdar, B. Merrill, D.K. Sze, N. Morley, S. Sharafat, M. Dagher, P. Peterson, H. Zhao, S. Zinkle, M. Abdou, M. Youssef, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 502-509]. (11 pages, 1.5 MB) [more]
UWFDM-902 Numerical Simulation of the Stability in a Cable-In-Conduit Conductor Developed for Fusion-Magnet Applications; R.L. Wong, C.T. Yeaw, S.S. Shen, J.R. Miller, August 1992 [Presented at the 14th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, San Diego CA, 30 September - 3 October 1991. Also published as UCRL-JC-107258]. (8 pages, 892 kB) [more]
UWFDM-290 The Application of Uncertainty Analysis in Conceptual Fusion Reactor Design; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, February 1979 [Proc. Seminar-Workshop on Theory and Uncertainty Analysis, ORNL, TN, August 1978]. (30 pages, 1.8 MB)
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-401 Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis for a Fusion-Fission Hybrid System: SOLASE-H; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, January 1981. (71 pages, 2.5 MB)
UWFDM-402 Higher Order Sensitivity Theory and Nonlinear Optimization in Fusion Neutronics Studies; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, January 1981. (63 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-767 Improvements in the SOAST Code; Y. Yamauchi, G.L. Kulcinski, C.D. Croessmann, August 1988. (32 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-21 Synchrotron Radiation Loss in a Tokamak; T.F. Yang, H.K. Forsen, and G.A. Emmert, April 1972. (14 pages, 864 kB)
UWFDM-30 The Preliminary Report on a Three Dimensional Magnetic Field Code - MAFCO (The Modification and Application); T.F. Yang, October 1972. (28 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-47 Calculation of Magnetic Field from a Current Carrying Finite Size Conductor; T.F. Yang, June 1973. (23 pages, 888 kB)
UWFDM-49 The Calculation and Parametric Study of the Synchrotron Radiation Loss for Tokamak Reactors; T.F. Yang, H.K. Forsen, G.A. Emmert, July 1973. (25 pages, 976 kB)
UWFDM-64 Stray Fields of the Conceptual Tokamak Fusion Reactor, UWMAK-I; T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and C.W. Maynard, February 1974. (17 pages, 843 kB)
UWFDM-95 Energetic Particle Loss and Field Bumpiness Due to the ``D'' Shaped Coils in a Tokamak Reactor; T.F. Yang and G.A. Emmert, April 1974 [presented at the 1st Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, San Diego CA, 14-18 April 1974]. (14 pages, 759 kB)