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-343 Modelling of Bundle Divertors; G.A. Emmert, January 1980. (36 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-342 Matrix Representation of Multivariate Polynomials - A Systematic Approach for Computer Algebra; S.I. Abdel-Khalik, February 1980. (11 pages, 617 kB)
UWFDM-341 Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors Based on the Gas Protection Concept; S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, and R.R. Peterson, January 1980. (50 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-340 Power Balance in a Tandem Mirror Reactor With Thermal Barriers; J.F. Santarius and R.W. Conn, January 1980. (34 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-339 Limiter Pumping System for Divertorless Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and D.K. Sze, November 1979. (8 pages, 882 kB)
UWFDM-338 The Current Perception of the Environmental Features of Fusion vs. Fission After a Decade of Study; G.L. Kulcinski, November 1980. (10 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-337 Summary of the Fusion-Fission Hybrid Fuel Cycle Analysis (Tritiumless Hybrids?); S.I. Abdel-Khalik, R.W. Conn, D. Henderson, F. Kantrowitz, G.L. Kulcinski, E.M. Larsen, G.A. Moses, M.S. Ortman, M. Ragheb, W.F. Vogelsang, and M.Z. Youssef, December 1979. (36 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-336 FIRE - A Computer Code to Simulate Cavity Gas Response to Inertial Confinement Target Explosions; G.A. Moses and R.R. Peterson, January 1980. (81 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-335 Advanced Fusion Fuel Cycles and Fusion Reaction Kinetics - Preliminary Proposal; G.W. Shuy, December 1979. (85 pages, 3.2 MB)
UWFDM-334 Parametric Calculations of 239Pu Breeding in Hybrid Blankets With and Without Tritium Breeding; D.L. Henderson and G.A. Moses, June 1979. (20 pages, 854 kB)
UWFDM-333 Impact of Fusion-Fission Hybrids on World Nuclear Future; S.I. Abdel-Khalik, P. Jansen, G. Kessler, and P. Klumpp, May 1980. (80 pages, 2.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-332 Radiation Effects in Molybdenum and Molybdenum-Zirconium Alloy; Kang-Yih Liou, December 1979 [Ph.D. thesis]. (205 pages, 7.5 MB)
UWFDM-331 14 MeV d,t Sources; H.H. Barschall, November 1979 [chapter in "Neutron Sources", Pergamon Press, 1983]. (58 pages, 3.3 MB)
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-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-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-328 Axisymmetric Sloshing Ion Tandem Mirror Plugs; J. Kesner, October 1979 [Nucl. Fus. 20, 557 (May 1980)]. (23 pages, 974 kB)
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-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-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]
UWFDM-324 On the Performance of Fuel Elements Enriched in the SOLASE-H Hybrid Reactor; R.M. Lewis, P.R. Schwab, and W.G. Wolfer, February 1980. (71 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-323 First Wall Protection in ICF Reactors by Inert Cavity Gases; G.A. Moses and R.R. Peterson, October 1979. (103 pages, 3.7 MB)
UWFDM-322 First Wall Mechanical Design for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, December 1979. (54 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-321 A Study of the Tritium Handling Systems in Magnetic and Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors With and Without Tritium Breeding; M.S. Ortman, E.M. Larsen, and S.I. Abdel-Khalik, February 1980. (47 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-320 First Wall and Cavity Design Studies for a Light Ion Beam Driven Fusion Reactor; G.A. Moses, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, D. Drake, R. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, R. Lewis, E. Lovell, T. McCarville, L. Peranich, R.R. Peterson, M. Ragheb, R. Spencer, October 1979. (87 pages, 3.9 MB)
UWFDM-319 Interaction of Lower Hybrid Wave Fields with Drift-Cyclotron Loss-Cone Instability; K-C. Shaing, October 1979. (31 pages, 1.1 MB)
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-317 A Brief Summary of Different Tritium Sources for a Tritiumless Hybrid Reactor; G.A. Moses, October 1979. (72 pages, 3.1 MB)
UWFDM-316 Hybrids for Direct Enrichment and Self-Protected Fissile Fuel Production; R.W. Conn, F. Kantrowitz, and W.F. Vogelsang, October 1979. (37 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-315 Blast Wave Calculations in Argon Cavity Gas for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, October 1979. (27 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-314 The Radiation Induced Order-Disorder Transformation in Cu3Au; R. Zee and P. Wilkes, September 1979. (42 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-313 Minerals Resource Implications of a Tokamak Reactor Economy; E. Cameron, R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, and I. Sviatoslavsky, September 1979. (74 pages, 3.4 MB)
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-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-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-309 Implementation Considerations of Coupling Dedicated Fissile and Fusile Production Fusion and Fission Reactors; M. Ragheb, August 1979. (50 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-308 A Survey of Fusion-Fission System Designs and Nuclear Analysis; M.Z. Youssef and R.W. Conn, June 1979. (54 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-307 MFP - A Calculation of Radiation Mean Free Paths, Ionization and Internal Energies in Noble Gases; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, May 1979. (52 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-306 Effects of Gas Pressure on the Amount of X-ray Energy Absorbed in the First Wall of an Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor; A. Hassanein and G.L. Kulcinski, August 1979. (14 pages, 726 kB)
UWFDM-305 Minimizing Radioactivity and Other Features of Elemental and Isotopic Tailoring of Materials for Fusion Reactors; R.W. Conn, K. Okula, and A.W. Johnson, May 1978 [Nuc. Tech. 41, 389 (1978)]. (36 pages, 1.6 MB)