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-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-105 Conceptual Design Considerations for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; R.W. Conn and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1974 [(The Netherlands Meeting)]. (27 pages, 954 kB)
UWFDM-106 Parametric Studies of Driven Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, W.A. Houlberg, and J. Kesner, June 28, 1974. (59 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-109 A New Fusion Reactor Design Concept; R.W. Conn and G.L. Kulcinski, August 10, 1974. (34 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-113 Comparative Study of Radioactivity and Afterheat in Several Fusion Reactor Blanket Designs; R.W. Conn, T.Y. Sung, and M.A. Abdou, October 1974. (29 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-114 Major Design Features of the Conceptual D-T Tokamak Power Reactor, UWMAK-II; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, M. Abdou, R.W. Boom, G.A. Emmert, Y. Eyssa, M. Hilal, J. Kesner, W. Lue, C.W. Maynard, A. Mense, J. Scharer, T. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, L. Wittenberg, T. Yang, and W. Young, October 1974 [published in the Proceedings of the Fifth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Tokyo, Japan, 11-15 November 1974]. (19 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-115 New Concepts for Controlled Fusion Reactor Blanket Design; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, H. Avci, and M. El-Maghrabi, October 1974 [paper submitted to Nuclear Technology]. (47 pages, 2.9 MB)
UWFDM-119 A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor; R.W. Conn and D.L. Jassby, March 1975. (39 pages, 2.0 MB) [more]
UWFDM-136 Impurity Effects on Plasma Performance in Two Component Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, M. Khelladi, and J. Kesner, October 1975 [submitted to Nuclear Fusion]. (57 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-153 Plasma Modeling and First Wall Interaction Phenomena in Tokamaks; R.W. Conn and J. Kesner, February 1976 [published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 63 (1976) 1-14]. (25 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-155 Space Dependent Effects on the Lawson Criterion, the Ignition Condition, and Thermal Equilibria in Tokamaks; R.W. Conn and Jay Kesner, December 1975 [to be published in Nuclear Fusion]. (37 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-156 An Advanced Conceptual Tokamak Fusion Power Reactor Utilizing Closed Cycle Helium Gas Turbines; R.W. Conn and S.C. Kuo, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (73 pages, 2.9 MB)
UWFDM-168 A High Performance, Noncircular Tokamak Power Reactor Design Study - UWMAK-III; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, C.W. Maynard, R. Aronstein, R.W. Boom, A. Bowles, R.G. Clemmer, J. Davis, G.A. Emmert, S. Ghose, Y. Gohar, J. Kesner, S. Kuo, E. Larsen, J. Scharer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, T.F. Yang, and W. Young, August 1976 [Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Berchtesgaden, Federal Republic of Germany, 6-13 October 1976]. (25 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]
UWFDM-175 What is Past is Prologue: Future Directions in Tokamak Power Reactor Design Research; R.W. Conn, September 1976 [ANS Topical Meeting Paper]. (19 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-190 Studies of the Technological Problems of Laser Driven Fusion Reactors - Annual Report I; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, E.T. Cheng, G. Cooper, J. Howard, G.L. Kulcinski, E. Larsen, E. Lovell, G. Magelssen, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W. Wolfer, F. Beranek, S.K. Chang, R. Droll, N. Ghoniem, T. Hunter, M. Ortman, R. Spencer, G. Shuy, and M. Ragheb, December 1976. (528 pages, 16 MB) [more]
UWFDM-204 Reactor Aspects of Laser Fusion; R.W. Conn, November 9, 1977 [presented at International Scientific Forum on an Acceptable Future of Nuclear Energy for the World - Nov. 7- 11, 1977, Coral Gables, Florida]. (21 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-220 SOLASE - A Conceptual Laser Fusion Reactor Design; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, F. Beranek, E.T. Cheng, G.W. Cooper, R.B. Droll, T. Henderson, J. Howard, T.O. Hunter, E.M. Larsen, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, G.R. Magelssen, C.W. Maynard, K.R. Okula, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, W.B. Rensel, D. Solomon, R. Spencer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, R.D. Watson, and W.G. Wolfer, December 1977. (1122 pages, 34 MB) [more]
UWFDM-229 The SOLASE Laser Fusion Reactor Design and Its Technological Implications; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, G.W. Cooper, J.E. Howard, E.M. Larsen, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and W.G. Wolfer, October 1977 [presented at IAEA Conference and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design, Madison, October 1977, IAEA-TC-145/17, 269-298 (1978)]. (41 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-237 First Wall and Divertor Plate Material Selection in Fusion Reactors; Robert W. Conn, March 20, 1978. (31 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-240 Notes on Fusion Hybrid Reactors; R.W. Conn, G.A. Moses, and S.I. Abdel-Khalik, February 1978. (14 pages, 815 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-260 Plasma Parametric Studies and Potential Applications of Driven Fusion Reactors; R.W. Conn, September 1978. (51 pages, 2.6 MB)
UWFDM-262 p-6Li Ignition and Multipoles as Advanced Fuel Cycle Reactors; R.W. Conn and G. Shuy, September 25, 1978. (47 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-270 SOLASE-H, A Laser Fusion Hybrid Study; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, G.W. Cooper, J.E. Howard, G.L. Kulcinski, E. Larsen, C.W. Maynard, M. Ragheb, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, W.G. Wolfer, M. Ortman, D. Smatlak, R. Watson, and M. Youssef, May 1979 (revised October 1979). (477 pages, 16 MB)
UWFDM-288 Tokamak Reactors and Structural Materials; R.W. Conn, January 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 9 (1979)]. (11 pages, 942 kB)
UWFDM-301 SOLASE - A Laser Fusion Reactor Study - Summary and Conclusions; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, F. Beranek, E.T. Cheng, G.W. Cooper, R.B. Droll, T. Henderson, J. Howard, T.O. Hunter, E.M. Larsen, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, G.R. Magelssen, C.W. Maynard, K.R. Okula, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, W.B. Rensel, D. Solomon, R. Spencer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, R.D. Watson, and W.G. Wolfer, April 1979. (40 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-301a Appendix - Detailed Summaries and Conclusions for Different Subsystems in SOLASE; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, F. Beranek, E.T. Cheng, G.W. Cooper, R.B. Droll, T. Henderson, J. Howard, T.O. Hunter, E.M. Larsen, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, G.R. Magelssen, C.W. Maynard, K.R. Okula, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, W.B. Rensel, D. Solomon, R. Spencer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, R.D. Watson, and W.G. Wolfer, April 1979. (30 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
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)
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-339 Limiter Pumping System for Divertorless Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and D.K. Sze, November 1979. (8 pages, 882 kB)
UWFDM-102 Higher Order Variational Principles and Padé Approximants for Linear Functionals; R.W. Conn, May 1973. (12 pages, 677 kB)
UWFDM-226 Neutral Beam Divergence Due to Imperfect Magnetic Shielding; J.R. Conrad, November 1977. (27 pages, 989 kB)
UWFDM-996 Progress Report for the SIRIUS Code Development Contract for the Period November 1, 1994 to November 1, 1995; P. Cousseau, R. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, G.L. Kulcinski, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, C. Nin, R.R. Peterson, J.F. Santarius, K. Simmons, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, P.P.H. Wilson, November 1995. (41 pages, 2.5 MB)
UWFDM-1032 Progress Report to the Department of Energy Inertial Confinement Fusion Team for the Period November 1, 1995 - September 30, 1996 on Contract No. DE-AS08-88DP10754; P. Cousseau, R. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, D. Kaap, G.L. Kulcinski, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, J.F. Santarius, M. Sprague, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, P.P.H. Wilson, October 1996. (95 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1059 Final Report to the Department of Energy Inertial Confinement Fusion Team for the Period November 1, 1993 - October 30, 1997 on Contract No. DE-AS08-88DP10754; P. Cousseau, R. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, D. Kaap, G.L. Kulcinski, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, C. Nin, R.R. Peterson, J.F. Santarius, M. Sprague, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, P.P.H. Wilson, October 1997. (125 pages, 6.4 MB)
UWFDM-935 Fifty Years of Research in Helium-3 Fusion and Helium-3 Resources; J.C. Crabb, S.W. White, L.P. Wainwright, S.E. Kratz, G.L. Kulcinski, December 1993 (revised May 1994). (134 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-576 Correlation of Experimental and Theoretical Results for Vaporization by Simulated Disruption; C.D. Croessmann, G.L. Kulcinski and J.B. Whitley, May 1984 [J. Nucl. Materials 128 & 129, 816 (1984)]. (22 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-662 Measured Vaporization and Melting of High Heat Flux Materials Due to Intense Heat Loads; C.D. Croessmann, G.L. Kulcinski, J.B. Whitley, November 1985 [Presented at 11th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, November 18-22, 1985, Austin, TX]. (8 pages, 847 kB)
UWFDM-674 The Thermal Response of Structural Materials to Intense Energy Deposition; Dennis Croessmann, February 1986 [Ph.D. thesis]. (232 pages, 18 MB)
UWFDM-968 Fatigue Life of the Plasma-Facing Components in PULSAR; J.A. Crowell, J.P. Blanchard and the PULSAR team, June 1994 [presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, June 26 - July 1, 1994, Los Angeles CA; to be published in Fusion Engineering and Design]. (10 pages, 879 kB)