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-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-518 Streaming and Shielding Analysis for the NBI System of TDF; M.E. Sawan, May 1983 [Nucl. Tech./Fusion 412 (1983) 412] [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (9 pages, 783 kB)
UWFDM-542 Strength and Fatigue Analysis of Fibrous Silicon Carbide for ICF Reactor Applications; R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell and S.J. Covey, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983]. (7 pages, 649 kB)
UWFDM-616 Stress Analysis of a Duplex Structure in a High Heat Flux Fusion Environment; B.B. Glasgow and W.G. Wolfer, 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, 746 kB)
UWFDM-901 Stress-Enhanced Swelling: Mechanisms and Implications for Fusion Reactors; M.H. Hassan, J.P. Blanchard, G.L. Kulcinski, May 1992. (29 pages, 634 kB)
UWFDM-1394 Structural Materials Damage in Fusion and Fission Systems; M.E. Sawan, May 2011. (11 pages, 602 kB)
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-1211 Studies of Metal Combustion; Lloyd S. Nelson, Bradley J. Motl, J.H. Kleinlugtenbelt, Paul W. Brooks, Riccardo Bonazza and Michael L. Corradini, June 2003. (81 pages, 8.7 MB)
UWFDM-1212 Studies of Metal Combustion; Lloyd S. Nelson, Paul W. Brooks, Riccardo Bonazza and Michael L. Corradini, March 2002. (60 pages, 5.6 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-449 Studies on Tritium Breeders for Fusion Reactors: I. The Preparation, Characterization and Melting Point of Lithium Oxide, II. The Preparation and Melting Point of Octalithium Zirconate; M.S. Ortman and E.M. Larsen, August 1982 (revised March 1983). (47 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-148 Study of RF and Neutral Beam Heating of Large Tokamaks; J.E. Scharer, R.W. Conn, and D.T. Blackfield, December 1975. (69 pages, 2.8 MB)
UWFDM-977 Summary Report for ITER Design Task D10: Updating the Activation Code RACC for ITER Design Analysis; Qingming Wang and D.L. Henderson, January 1995 (revised April 1995). (29 pages, 737 kB)
UWFDM-1043 Summary Report on Work Performed by the U.S. Home Team in the Blanket Design Task D307A, Subtask 1.2: Nuclear Analysis in Support of Blanket and Vacuum Vessel Design; M.E. Sawan and H.Y. Khater, March 1997 [also ITER/US/97/IV-BL-4]. (23 pages, 243 kB)
UWFDM-1042 Summary Report on Work Performed in the Divertor Design Task D308, Subtask 10: Neutronics and Shielding Support Analyses of the ITER Divertor; M.E. Sawan, February 1997 [also ITER/US/96/IV-DV-21]. (22 pages, 261 kB)
UWFDM-1007 Summary Report on the Neutronics Activities Performed by the U.S. Home Team as Part of the Blanket Design Task D202 in 1995; M.E. Sawan, H.Y. Khater, L.A. El-Guebaly, March 1996. (30 pages, 665 kB)
UWFDM-896 Summary of Apollo, A D-3He Tokamak Reactor Design; G.L. Kulcinski, J.P. Blanchard, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, C.W. Maynard, E.A. Mogahed, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, April 1992 [published in Fusion Technology 21 (1992) 1779]. (13 pages, 538 kB)
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-978 Summary of the U.S.-Japan Workshop on the Physics of D-3He Fusion, Nagoya, Japan, December 5-7, 1994; Hiromu Momota and John F. Santarius, March 1995 [submitted to Fusion Technology]. (9 pages, 949 kB) [more]
UWFDM-703 Superconducting Magnet Radiation Effects in Fusion Reactors; Mohamed E. Sawan, Peter L. Walstrom, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986; Fus. Tech. 10/3 (1986) 741]. (9 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-417 Superconducting Materials - A Review of Recent Advances and Current Problems in Practical Materials; David C. Larbalestier, March 1981 [Invited review paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Magnet Technology, Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, March 30-April 3, 1981; IEEE Trans. Magnetics 17, September 1981]. (22 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-125 Superconducting Toroidal Field Magnets for a Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor; J.W. Lue and R.W. Conn, May 1975 [to be published in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 21 (1975)]. (24 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-145 Superconductive Energy Storage for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; J.W. Lue, H.A. Peterson, and R.W. Boom, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 819 kB)
UWFDM-588 Suppression of Void Nucleation by Injected Interstitials During Heavy Ion Bombardment; D.L. Plumton and W.G. Wolfer, August 1984 [J. Nucl. Mat. 120, 245-253 (1984)]. (33 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-233 Surface Damage and Thermal Effects from Transient Thermonuclear Radiation in Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors; T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, March 1978 [J. Nucl. Matls. 76, 383 (1978)]. (24 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-494 Surface Melting and Evaporation During Plasma Disruptions in Magnetic Fusion Reactors; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [Nuclear Engr. and Design 1, 307 (1984)]. (53 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-161 Survey of Irradiation Data on Molybdenum; R.E. Schmunk and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1976. (82 pages, 3.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-20 Swelling in Potential CTR First Wall Materials; G.L. Kulcinski, April 1972. (11 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-57 Swelling of Fast Neutron Irradiated Austenitic Stainless Steel and Its Effects on the UWCTR Design; R.G. Brown, February 1973. (92 pages, 3.7 MB)
UWFDM-179 Swelling of Metals Under Pulsed Irradiation; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (10 pages, 850 kB) [more]
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-658 Symbolic Manipulation of Structure Functions in Availability Analysis; Yoichi Watanabe, November 1985. (45 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-1048 Synchrotron Radiation Fusion Drive for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, J. Brandenburg, July 1997 [presented at the 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 6-9, 1997, Seattle WA]. (11 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]
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-1251 Synergies between Generation-IV and Advanced Fusion Power Plant Research Programs; P.P.H. Wilson, T.R. Allen, L.A. El-Guebaly, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 445-449]. (7 pages, 513 kB)
UWFDM-247 T*DAMEN, A Computer Code for Transient Radiation Damage Analysis; T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, May 1978 [not widely distributed]. (292 pages, 11 MB)
UWFDM-500 TASKA - A Tandem Mirror Fusion Engineering Facility; B. Badger, F. Arendt, H.M. Attaya, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, J.B. Beyer, E. Bogusch, D. Boehme, D. Bruggink, L.P. Dietz, H. Dittrich, L. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, J. Erb, H. Frey, B. Glaser, G. Grant, W. Heinz, W. Hennhoefer, W. Koehler, P. Komarek, G.L. Kulcinski, M. Kuntze, E.M. Larsen, T. Lechtenberg, H.G. Leiste, X.Z. Li, W. Link, B.M. Manes, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, F. Mehren, E. Montalvo, D. Mundt, Z. Musicki, E. Opperman, J.E. Osher, L.J. Perkins, R.R. Peterson, K.E. Plute, U. Quade, G. Ries, H. Runge, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, J.E. Scharer, D.C. Schluderberg, H. Schuetz, A. Suppan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W. Tischler, M.A. Vogel, W.F. Vogelsang, A.M. White, W.G. Wolfer, D.B. Young, K.Y. Yuan, March 1982. (1043 pages, 33 MB) [more]
UWFDM-427 TASKA, A Fusion Engineering Test Facility for the 1990's; G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Emmert, C.W. Maynard, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, W. Heinz, P. Komarek, W. Maurer, A. Suppan, and E. Opperman, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 67 (1982)]. (8 pages, 780 kB) [more]
UWFDM-600 TASKA-M, A Low Cost, Near Term Tandem Mirror Device for Fusion Technology Testing; B. Badger, F. Arendt, E. Borie, M.L. Corradini, H.G. Dittrich, L. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, T. Fett, J.M. Grover, B. Haferkamp, W. Heinz, E. Hoelzchen, K. Kleefeldt, R. Klingelhoefer, P. Komarek, G.L. Kulcinski, M. Kuntze, E.M. Larsen, H.G. Leiste, G.W. Leppelmeier, W. Link, S. Malang, B.M. Manes, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, I. Michael, R.A. Mueller, G. Neffe, E.K. Opperman, L.J. Perkins, R.R. Peterson, K.E. Plute, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, J.E. Scharer, K. Schramm, A. Suppan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, S. Taczanowski, M.A. Vogel, W.F. Vogelsang, D. Weinberg, and L.J. Wittenberg, December 1983 [also KfK-3660 and FPA-83-7]. (598 pages, 22 MB) [more]
UWFDM-173 TETR - A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor to Qualify Materials and Blanket Components for Early DT Fusion Power Reactors; 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, R. Nygren, K. Okula, 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, and W.C. Young, September 1976. (23 pages, 2.1 MB) [more]