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-191 TETR: A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor to Qualify Materials and Blanket Components for Early DT Fusion Power Reactors; B. Badger, G.L. Kulcinski, R.W. Conn, C.W. Maynard, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, D. Blackfield, R.W. Boom, E. Cheng, J.R. Conrad, S. Dalhed, G.A. Emmert, B. Feinberg, Y. Gohar, S. Hong, J. Kesner, E. Larsen, P.F. Michaelson, K. Okula, M. Ragheb, E. Ramer, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, T. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, P. Wilkes, W.R. Wilkes, L. Wittenberg, J. Wrazel, T. Wu, T. Yang, J. Young, and W.C. Young, February 1977. (940 pages, 32 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1004 TF Fusion Coil Conductor Performance Optimized for the Radiation Environment; C.T. Yeaw, January 1996 [submitted to Fusion Engineering and Design]. (10 pages, 479 kB)
UWFDM-744 TIBER Activation Analysis; H. Attaya, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 735 kB)
UWFDM-181 TRANSWELL (Version I) Computer Code Documentation; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (121 pages, 3.8 MB) [more]
UWFDM-382 TSTRESS - A Transient Stress Computer Code; R.R. Peterson, R.D. Watson, W.G. Wolfer, and G.A. Moses, December 1980. (50 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-349 Tandem Mirror Sloshing - Electron Plugs; J. Kesner, April 1980. (16 pages, 778 kB)
UWFDM-1178 Target Activation and Radiological Response of ARIES-IFE Dry Wall Chamber; L.A. El-Guebaly, D.L. Henderson, P.P.H. Wilson, A.E. Abdou, ARIES Team, 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. 653-658 (2002)]. (11 pages, 352 kB)
UWFDM-1072 Target Chamber Considerations for Heavy Ion Transport in Plasma Channels; Robert R. Peterson, Mohamed E. Sawan, Simon Yu, Ralph Moir, May 1998 [ Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 415 (1998) 182-185]. (9 pages, 222 kB) [more]
UWFDM-724 Target Chamber Design Considerations for the APEX Light Ion Beam Fusion Facility; R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, G.A. Moses, E.G. Lovell, May 1987. (40 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-733 Target Chamber Designs for the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 701 kB)
UWFDM-747 Target Chamber Gas Issues in Near Term ICF Facilities; Robert R. Peterson, October 1987 [submitted to Proceedings of the Symposium on Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena, October 1987, Monterey, CA]. (9 pages, 747 kB)
UWFDM-859 Target Chamber Gas Response and Vaporization in a Laser and a Heavy Ion Beam IFE Reactor; R.R. Peterson, J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, September 1991 [Presented at the 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 30 September - 3 October 1991, San Diego CA]. (7 pages, 201 kB)
UWFDM-854 Target Chamber Issues for the Sandia National Laboratories Laboratory Microfusion Facility - Final Report for the Period 10/1/88 through 12/31/90; R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, R.D. Griffin, H.Y. Khater, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, J.W. Powers, S.C. Rutledge, M.E. Sawan, P. Wang, O. Yasar, April 1991. (89 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-768 Target Chamber Studies for a Light Ion Fusion Laboratory Microfusion Facility; B. Badger, R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, M.E. Sawan, H. Khater, J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, E.G. Lovell, August 1988. (39 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-697 Target Chamber Studies for the Inertial Confinement Fusion Technology Test Bed, FIRST STEP: Final Report for the Period 30 April 1985-30 June 1986; Robert R. Peterson, June 1986. (16 pages, 811 kB)
UWFDM-593 Target Diagnostics Package for the Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility; G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan and E.G. Lovell, September 1984. (39 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-1008 Target Emission and Wall Response: National Ignition Facility Target Area Studies Interim Report for the Period 5/1/95 Through 3/31/96; R.R. Peterson, J.J. MacFarlane, J.F. Santarius, G.A. Moses, April 1996. (78 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-515 Target Explosion Generated Fireballs in the Nitrogen Filled Target Chamber of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, 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, 860 (1983)]. (9 pages, 833 kB)
UWFDM-572 Target Material Activation Calculations for High Gain Light Ion Fusion Targets; D.L. Henderson, A.M. White and G.A. Moses, April 1984 (revised May 1987). (25 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-367 Technical Benefits of a Non-Tritium Breeding Hybrid Reactor; R.T. Perry and G.A. Moses, July 1980. (18 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-91 Technological Implications for Tokamak Fusion Reactors of the UWMAK-I Conceptual Design; R.W. Conn and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1974 [(First Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion)]. (17 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-1096 Terrestrial Analogs for Lunar Ilmenite; Kimberly R. Harris-Kuhlman and Gerald L. Kulcinski, April 1998 [Published in Space 98, The Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, 26-30 April 1998, Albuquerque NM, Rodney G. Galloway and Stanley Lokaj, editors, pp. 533-540].
UWFDM-769 Terrestrial Sources of Helium-3 Fusion Fuel - A Trip to the Center of the Earth; Layton J. Wittenberg, October 1988 (revised November 1988) [presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 9-13 October 1988, Salt Lake City UT]. (7 pages, 933 kB)
UWFDM-728 Tether Dynamics and Vibration Analysis; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, October 1987 [Presented at the PSN/NASA/ESA Second International Conference on Tethers in Space, 4-8 October 1987, Venice, Italy.]. (7 pages, 668 kB)
UWFDM-1387 Texture Coatings as First-Wall Materials: Exposure to Energetic Ions on RHEPP-1; T. Renk, B. Williams, L. El-Guebaly, A. Jaber, 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 2 (July 2011) 570-578.]. [more]
UWFDM-874 The ARIES-III D-3He Tokamak Reactor Study; J.F. Santarius and the ARIES Team, January 1992 [presented at the US-USSR Workshop on D-3He Reactor Studies, 25 September - 2 October 1991, Moscow]. (10 pages, 853 kB)
UWFDM-650 The Adiabatic Theory of the Linear Hose Instability of a Relativistic Electron Beam Propagating in Resistive Plasma; K.J. O'Brien, September 1985 [Ph.D. thesis]. (256 pages, 8.0 MB)
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-511 The Availability Analysis of Fusion Power Plants as Applied to MARS; Z. Musicki and C.W. Maynard, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (9 pages, 789 kB)
UWFDM-1017 The BUCKY and ZEUS-2D Computer Codes for Simulating High Energy Density ICF Plasmas; R.R. Peterson, J.J. MacFarlane, J.F. Santarius, P. Wang, G.A. Moses, May 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV]. (8 pages, 551 kB)
UWFDM-1031 The Behavior of Molten Pb and 83 a/o Pb-17 a/o Li When Impacted by a Vertical Column of Water; L.S. Nelson, A. Farahani, J.D. Krueger, M.L. Corradini, July 1996. (208 pages, 14 MB)
UWFDM-1194 The Breeding Potential of Flinabe and Comparison to Flibe in CLiFF High Power Density Concept; M. Youssef, M. Sawan, D-K. Sze, 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. 61-62, pp. 497-503 (2002)]. [more]
UWFDM-757 The Breeding Shield Design for the Technology Test Reactor TIBER-II; M.E. Sawan, J.D. Lee, March 1988 [Fusion Engr. &\ Des. 8 (1989) 161]. (20 pages, 980 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-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-705 The Chemistry of Molten Li2BeF4; Edwin M. Larsen, Layton J. Wittenberg, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986]. (9 pages, 696 kB)
UWFDM-745 The Commercial Potential of D-He3 Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G.A. Emmert, H. Attaya, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, Z. Musicki, October 1987 [Presented at 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, Monterey, CA, 12-16 October 1987]. (5 pages, 634 kB)
UWFDM-90 The Conceptual Design of a Tokamak Fusion Power Reactor, UWMAK-I; G.L. Kulcinski and Robert W. Conn, April 1974 [First Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion; Reported for the University of Wisconsin Fusion Feasibility Group]. (21 pages, 1.5 MB)
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-643 The Cross-Section Techniques for Preparing TEM Specimens of Heavy Ion Irradiated HT-9 Ferritic Steel; J.J. Kai, August 1985. (20 pages, 3.5 MB)