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-642 Effects of Thermal Annealing and Ion Irradiation on the Properties and Microstructures of Copper Alloys; Steven John Zinkle, May 1985 [Ph.D. thesis]. (271 pages, 11 MB)
UWFDM-922 Effects of X-Rays on the Ionization State of Be Star Winds; J.J. MacFarlane, October 1993 [Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 162: Pulsation, Rotation, and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars, 5-8 October 1993, Juan Les Pins, France]. (6 pages, 527 kB)
UWFDM-352 Effects of the Fast Wave on the Drift-Cyclotron Loss-Cone Model; Ker-Chung Shaing, December 1980. (24 pages, 825 kB)
UWFDM-538 Electrical Resistivity of Dislocations in Metals; S.J. Zinkle, September 1983. (22 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-1114 Electricity Production from Laser Driven Fusion Reactors: Technology Aspects of Power Conversion Chambers; G.L. Kulcinski, November 1999 [Presented at the International Forum on Advanced High Power Lasers and Applications, Suita, Osaka, Japan, 1-5 November 1999]. (9 pages, 257 kB)
UWFDM-1148 Electromagnetic Disruption Effects in the ARIES-RS Tokamak Design; J.A. Crowell and J.P. Blanchard, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (6 pages, 882 kB) [more]
UWFDM-463 Electron Bounce Resonance Heating in a Mirror Confined Plasma; K.C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, April 1982. (17 pages, 860 kB)
UWFDM-459 Electron Cyclotron Heating in Weakly Relativistic, Finite-Beta Tandem Mirror Plasmas; K. Audenaerde and J. Scharer, March 1982. (39 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1202 Embedded D-3He Fusion Reactions and Medical Isotope Production in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device; B.B. Cipiti and G.L. Kulcinski, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 534 (2003)]. (7 pages, 862 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-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-1263 Emissions and Energy Efficiency Assessment of Base Loaded Wind Energy Systems; P.L. Denholm, G.L. Kulcinski, T. Holloway, September 2004 [accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Technology, 2004].
UWFDM-560 Emittance Calculations and Measurements for a Sputter-Type Negative Ion Source; J.H. Billen, September 1983 [submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods]. (87 pages, 3.6 MB)
UWFDM-621 End Cell Shielding and Streaming Analysis of MARS Tandem Mirror Reactor; Laila A. El-Guebaly, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Tech. 8, No. 1, Part 2B, 1043 (July 1985)]. (9 pages, 801 kB)
UWFDM-95 Energetic Particle Loss and Field Bumpiness Due to the ``D'' Shaped Coils in a Tokamak Reactor; T.F. Yang and G.A. Emmert, April 1974 [presented at the 1st Topical Meeting on the Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, San Diego CA, 14-18 April 1974]. (14 pages, 759 kB)
UWFDM-993 Energy Balance and Lifetime Emissions from Fusion, Fission and Coal Generated Electricity; Scott W. White, October 1995 [M.S. thesis]. (96 pages, 4.4 MB)
UWFDM-815 Energy Conversion Options for ARIES-III -- a Conceptual D-3He Tokamak Reactor; J.F. Santarius, J.P. Blanchard, G.A. Emmert, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, N.M. Ghoniem, M.Z. Hasan, T.K. Mau, E. Greenspan, J.S. Herring, W. Kernbichler, A.C. Klein, G.H. Miley, R.L. Miller, Y-K.M. Peng, M.J. Schaffer, C.P.C. Wong, D. Steiner, D-K. Sze, and the ARIES Team, October 1989 [Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN (IEEE, NY, 1989) 1039]. (6 pages, 898 kB) [more]
UWFDM-807 Energy Deposition and First Wall Response in the SIRIUS-T Target Chamber; J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1989 [Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN]. (7 pages, 565 kB)
UWFDM-723 Energy Deposition and Shock Wave Evolution from Laser-Generated Plasma Expansions; J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, May 1987 [Phys. Fluids B1 (1989) 635]. (44 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1085 Energy Payback Ratios and CO2 Emissions Associated with the UWMAK-I and ARIES-RS DT-Fusion Power Plants; S.W. White and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1998 [Presented at the 13th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, June 7-11, 1998, Nashville TN]. (7 pages, 282 kB)
UWFDM-1091 Energy Payback Ratios and Lifetime CO2 Emission Levels for DT and D3He Fusion Power Plants; Scott W. White and Gerald L. Kulcinski, January 1999 [Presented at the International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES-98), June 29-July 3, 1998, Tel Aviv, Israel]. (13 pages, 276 kB)
UWFDM-766 Energy Requirements for Helium-3 Mining Operations on the Moon; G.L. Kulcinski, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.F. Santarius, L.J. Wittenberg, E.N. Cameron, T.M. Crabb, M.K. Jacobs, October 1988 [presented at the Fifth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, 11-14 January 1988, Albuquerque NM]. (21 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-70 Energy Storage in Transformer, Divertor and Plasma Poloidal Fields; A.T. Mense, September 1973. (14 pages, 760 kB)
UWFDM-1102 Energy and Particle Confinement Times for a Field-Reversed Configuration; Sergei V. Ryzhkov, June 1999 [submitted to Nuclear Fusion]. (8 pages, 240 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-1222 Engineering Description of a Solid First Wall Blanket Based on Advanced Ferritic Steel and Re-circulating Flibe; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.E. Sawan, E.A. Mogahed, S. Malang, C.P.C. Wong, S. Majumdar, S. Sharafat, October 2003 [presented at the 20th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), San Diego CA, 14-17 October 2003]. (7 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]
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-514 Engineering Design of the Quasi-Optical ECRH Injection System for the Mirror Advanced Reactor (MARS); L.J. Perkins, S.A. Freije, and W.S. Neef, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (9 pages, 866 kB) [more]
UWFDM-43 Engineering Feasibility of a Fusion Reactor; R. Boom, G. Kulcinski, C. Maynard and W.F. Vogelsang, April 1973. (36 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-1313 Engineering Issues Facing Transmutation of Actinides in Z-Pinch Fusion Power Plant; L. El-Guebaly, B. Cipiti, P. Wilson, P. Phruksarojanakun, R. Grady, I. Sviatoslavsky, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (7 pages, 346 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1 Engineering and Environmental Aspects of Fusion Reactors; H.K. Forsen, December 1971. (25 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-413 Enhanced Axial Erosion of the Sputter Cathode in SNICS; J.H. Billen, April 1981. (7 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-428 Enhancement of Irradiation Creep in Pulsed Fusion Reactors; H. Gurol, N.M. Ghoniem, and W.G. Wolfer, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, (1981)]. (9 pages, 845 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1335 Environmental Aspects of Recent Trend in Managing Fusion Radwaste: Recycling and Clearance, Avoiding Disposal; L.A. El-Guebaly, June 2007 [published in the Proceedings of the 2nd IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plants: Design and Technology, 20-22 June 2007, Vienna, Austria, IAEA-TM-32812; IAEA CD ISBN 978-92-0-159508-9.]. (14 pages, 698 kB)
UWFDM-1411 Environmental Aspects of W-Based Components Employed in ITER, ARIES, and PPCS Fusion Designs; M. Desecures, L. El-Guebaly, June 2012. (34 pages, 1.9 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1044 Environmental and Energy Analysis of the Refeed Option of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride; Scott W. White, February 1997. (62 pages, 2.7 MB)
UWFDM-1410 Environmental and Policy Analysis of Renewable Energy Enabling Technologies; Paul L. Denholm, December 2004 [Ph.D. thesis]. (277 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-890 Environmental and Safety Aspects of ``OSIRIS'': A Heavy Ion Beam Driven IFE Reactor; H.Y. Khater, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, W.R. Meier, March 1992 [Prepared for the 10th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-12 June 1992, Boston MA]. (10 pages, 570 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1023 Environmental and Safety Assessment of LIBRA-SP: A Light Ion Fusion Power Reactor Design; H.Y. Khater and L.J. Wittenberg, May 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV]. (7 pages, 141 kB)
UWFDM-926 Environmental and Safety Assessment of the Inertially Confined Direct Drive Laser Fusion Power Reactor SIRIUS-P; H.Y. Khater, L.J. Wittenberg, M.E. Sawan, October 1993 [presented at 15th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering,. 11-14 October 1993, Hyannis MA]. (7 pages, 941 kB)