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-409 Preliminary Magnet Design for a Stellarator Fusion Reactor; S.W. Van Sciver, J. Derr, A. Khalil, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, April 1981. (7 pages, 717 kB)
UWFDM-448 Conceptual Design for a Modular Stellarator Fusion Reactor Magnet; S.W. Van Sciver, A. Khalil, K.Y. Yuan, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (7 pages, 693 kB)
UWFDM-1101 Computer Modeling for Lithium Safety in Fusion Systems: LINT and MELCOR; T.T. Utschig and M.L. Corradini, June 1999. (26 pages, 466 kB)
UWFDM-1223 Shock Wave Propagation and Gas-Debris Transport into a Vacuum: A Novel Computational Model-TEXAS-NCV; T.T. Utschig, M.L. Corradini, December 2003 [published in Fusion Science and Technology, Vol. 44, December 2003, pp. 791-802].
UWFDM-533 Parametric Survey of Microfireball Calculations for the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility Design; M. Uesaka and G.A. Moses, August 1983. (62 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-534 Comparison of Two-Temperature and Multifrequency Group Models of Radiative Transfer - Applied to Microfireball Dynamics in Light Ion Fusion Target Chambers; M. Uesaka and G.A. Moses, August 1983. (58 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-554 Conditions for Dislocation Loop-Punching by Helium Bubbles; H. Trinkaus and W.G. Wolfer, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983]. (9 pages, 772 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1168 ARIES Inertial Fusion Chamber Assessment; M.S. Tillack, F. Najmabadi, L. El-Guebaly, R.R. Peterson, D.T. Goodin, K.R. Schultz, W.R. Meier, J. Perkins, D.A. Petti, J.D. Sethian, L.M. Waganer, ARIES Team, March 2001 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15--19, 2000, Park City UT; published in Fusion Technology, 39, No. 2, 343 (2001)]. [more]
UWFDM-293 Research on Microsphere Fabrication and Coolant Loop Technology for Lithium Oxide Moving Bed Fusion Power Plant; T.A. Thornton, D.C. Schluderberg, D.K. Sze, and F.A. Zenz, February 1979. (8 pages, 891 kB) [more]
UWFDM-852 Space Propulsion by Fusion in a Magnetic Dipole; E. Teller, A.J. Glass, T.K. Fowler, A. Hasegawa, J.F. Santarius, April 1991 [presented at the First International A.D. Sakharov Conference on Physics, Moscow, USSR, 27-31 May 1991. Also published as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Report UCRL-JC-106807, and published in Fusion Technology, V. 22, August 1992, pp. 82-97]. (56 pages, 4.8 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1103 Helium-3 on the Moon for Fusion Energy: the Persian Gulf of the 21st Century; L.A. Taylor and G.L. Kulcinski, May 1999 [published in Solar System Research, Vol. 33, No. 5, 1999, pp. 338-345]. [more]
UWFDM-846 Discrete Ordinates Solution of the Time Dependent Radiation Transport Equation on a Distributed Network of UNIX Workstations; Timothy J. Tautges and Osman Yasar, January 1991. (47 pages, 849 kB)
UWFDM-32 Lithium Cooling for a Low-beta Tokamak Reactor; D.K. Sze and W.E. Stewart, November 1972. (20 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-41 Thermal and Mechanical Design Considerations for Lithium-Cooled Tokamak Reactor Blankets; D.K. Sze, W.E. Stewart, March 1973. (25 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-73 Thermal and Mechanical Design Considerations for Lithium-Cooled Tokamak Reactor Blankets; D.K. Sze and W.E. Stewart, November 1973. (8 pages, 868 kB)
UWFDM-96 Emergency Cooling and Afterheating Effects in a CTR Blanket; D.K. Sze, April 1974 [presented at the 1st Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, San Diego CA, 14-18 April 1974]. (16 pages, 916 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-128 Heat Transfer and Neutronics of ISSEC and Partial ISSEC Blanket Designs; D.K. Sze and R.W. Conn, June 1975. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-151 A Gas-Carried Li2O Cooling-Breeding Fusion Reactor Blanket Concept; D.K. Sze, E.M. Larsen, E.T. Cheng, and R.G. Clemmer, July 1975. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-185 Gravity Circulated Solid Blanket Design for a Tokamak Fusion Reactor; D.K. Sze, D.C. Schluderberg, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, September 1976. (14 pages, 973 kB) [more]
UWFDM-223 Thermal, Mechanical and Neutronic Design Considerations for a Graphite Structure Li2O Cooled Blanket; D.K. Sze, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, E.T. Cheng, and H.I. Avci, October 1977. (18 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-246 A BWTR (Boiling Water Tokamak Reactor) Blanket Study; D.K. Sze, C.W. Maynard, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, E.T. Cheng, C.C. Wang, J. Wrazel, May 1978 [Proc. 3rd ANS Top. Mtg., 239 (1978)]. (12 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-377 Thermal and Mechanical Design of WITAMIR-I Blanket; D.K. Sze and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980]. (10 pages, 847 kB)
UWFDM-378 LiPb, A Novel Material for Fusion Applications; D.K. Sze, R. Clemmer, and E.T. Cheng, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980 (CONF80-1011, USDOE, July 1981, pp. 1786-1791)]. (11 pages, 936 kB)
UWFDM-388 Thermal and Mechanical Design Considerations for INTOR; D.K. Sze, W.G. Homeyer, R.L. Creedon, C.P. Wong, and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1980. (39 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-445 In-Situ Tritium Recovery from Li17Pb83 Breeding Blanket; D.K. Sze, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (7 pages, 756 kB)
UWFDM-520 Emergency Cooling of the MARS LiPb Blanket; D.K. Sze and A. White, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (8 pages, 694 kB)
UWFDM-134 Engineering Considerations of the Toroidal Magnet and Dewar for UWMAK-II, A Wisconsin Tokamak Fusion Reactor Design; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.C. Young, and J.W. Lue, June 1975 [to be published in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 21 (1975)]. (21 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-251 Engineering Design Considerations for Facilitating Maintainability of Fusion Reactors; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, May 1978 [Proc. 3rd ANS Top. Mtg., 984 (1978)]. (13 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-376 Maintainability Considerations for the Central Cell in WITAMIR-I, A Conceptual Design of a Tandem Mirror Fusion Power Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980]. (7 pages, 816 kB)
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-480 Progress in Modular Stellarator Fusion Power Reactor Conceptual Designs; 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, C.G. Bathke, R.L. Miller, and R.A. Krakowski, September 1982 [9th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, IAEA Mtg., Baltimore, MD, September 1-8, 1982, paper IAEA-CN-41/E-3]. (16 pages, 947 kB) [more]
UWFDM-509 Mechanical and Thermal Design Aspects of the Blanket, and Maintenance Considerations of the Central Cell in MARS; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, Y.T. Li, and D.K. Sze, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (9 pages, 827 kB)
UWFDM-626 First Wall and Blanket Design for a High Wall Loading Compact Tokamak Power Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, M.L. Corradini, L.J. Wittenberg, G.L. Kulcinski, K.Y. Huh, M. El-Afify, 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)]. (9 pages, 876 kB)
UWFDM-702 Thin Blanket Design for MINIMARS - A Compact Tandem Mirror Fusion Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.E. Sawan, L.A. El-Guebaly, L.J. Wittenberg, M.L. Corradini, W.F. Vogelsang, G.L. Kulcinski, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986]. (10 pages, 936 kB)
UWFDM-739 LOFA and LOCA in the TIBER-II Engineering Test Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, H.M. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, S. Lomperski, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 844 kB)
UWFDM-805 SIRIUS-T, A Symmetrically Illuminated ICF Tritium Production Facility; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.E. Sawan, G.A. Moses, G.L. Kulcinski, R.L. Engelstad, E. Larsen, E. Lovell, J. MacFarlane, R.R. Peterson, L.J. Wittenberg, October 1989 [Presented at the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN]. (7 pages, 621 kB)
UWFDM-824 U.S. Aqueous Salt Blanket for ITER; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.E. Sawan, L.J. Wittenberg, G.L. Kulcinski, J.P. Blanchard, E.A. Mogahed, February 1990 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 13 (1990) 33-4]. (28 pages, 4.2 MB)
UWFDM-835 SIRIUS-T - An Advanced Tritium Production Facility Utilizing Symmetrically Illuminated Inertial Confinement Fusion; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.E. Sawan, G.A. Moses, G.L. Kulcinski, R.L. Engelstad, E.M. Larsen, E.G. Lovell, J.J. MacFarlane, E. Mogahed, R.R. Peterson, L.J. Wittenberg, J. Powers, October 1990 [Presented at the 9th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-11 October 1990, Oak Brook IL]. (9 pages, 649 kB)
UWFDM-836 Mechanical Design and Fabrication of the U.S. Solid Breeder Blanket for ITER; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.P. Blanchard, Y. Gohar, S. Majumdar, October 1990 [Presented at the 9th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-11 October 1990, Oak Brook IL]. (9 pages, 852 kB) [more]