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-366 The Radiation Order-Disorder Transformation - Initial Transient; R.H. Zee and P. Wilkes, July 1980 [J. Nucl. Mat. 97, 1979 (1981)]. (18 pages, 874 kB)
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-359 Fusion Power - One Answer to United States Energy Needs in the 21st Century; G.L. Kulcinski, R.W. Conn, E.N. Cameron, and I. Sviatoslavsky, August 1980 (revised January 1981). (82 pages, 4.4 MB)
UWFDM-369 Stability of the Lithium ``Waterfall'' First Wall Protection Concept for Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors; P.D. Esser, D.D. Paul, and S.I. Abdel-Khalik, August 1980. (43 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-370 Evaporation Under Intense Energy Deposition; L.L. Loebel and W.G. Wolfer, August 1980. (29 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-371 Cavity Gas Analysis for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.R. Peterson, G.W. Cooper, and G.A. Moses, August 1980 [Nucl. Technology/Fusion 1, 377 (1981)]. (37 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-372 MIXER - A Multi-Species Optical Data and Equation of State Computer Code; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, September 1980. (31 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-380 WITAMIR-I, A Tandem Mirror Reactor with Non-Zero Nu; J. Santarius, K. Audenaerde, J. Beyer, G.A. Emmert, J. Kesner, G.L. Kulcinski, D.C. Larbalestier, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, R.T. Perry, J. Scharer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and D.K. Sze, September 1980 [Proc. of the 11th SOFT Conference, Oxford, England, Fusion Technology 1980 (Pergammon, Oxford, 1981) p. 1261]. (8 pages, 708 kB) [more]
UWFDM-381 Further Investigations of the Upper Critical Field and the High Field Critical Current Density in Nb-Ti and Its Alloys; D.G. Hawksworth and D.C. Larbalestier, September 1980 [Proc. of the 1980 Applied Superconductivity Conference, Santa Fe, NM]. (7 pages, 726 kB)
UWFDM-391 The Effect of Solute Additions on Void Nucleation; F.A. Garner and W.G. Wolfer, September 1980 [J. Nucl. Matls. 102, 143-150 (1981)]. (19 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-400 WITAMIR-I, A University of Wisconsin Tandem Mirror Reactor Design; B. Badger, K. Audenaerde, J.B. Beyer, D. Braun, J.D. Callen, G.A. Emmert, J.M. Gilmore, N. Hoffman, J. Kesner, G.L. Kulcinski, D.C. Larbalestier, E. Larsen, X. Li, W. Maurer, C.W. Maynard, I. Ojalvo, M. Ortman, R. Perry, M. Ragheb, J. Santarius, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, K. Shaing, I. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, A. White, P. Wilkes, and T. Yang, September 1980. (447 pages, 16 MB) [more]
UWFDM-355 Improved Performance of a He- Source; J.H. Billen and H.T. Richards, October 1980. (9 pages, 755 kB)
UWFDM-373 Fusion Effort in China; X. Li, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA]. (7 pages, 686 kB)
UWFDM-374 Critical Materials Problems in INTOR; G.L. Kulcinski, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting]. (14 pages, 989 kB)
UWFDM-375 A Commercial Tandem Mirror Reactor Design With Thermal Barriers - WITAMIR-I; G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Emmert, C.W. Maynard, K. Audenaerde, J. Beyer, D. Braun, J.D. Callen, J.M. Gilmore, J. Kesner, D.C. Larbalestier, E. Larsen, X. Li, W. Maurer, M. Ortman, R. Perry, M. Ragheb, J. Santarius, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, K. Shaing, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, A. White, and T. Yang, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980]. (16 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]
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-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-379 A Review of Neutronic Design Criteria; R.T. Perry and C.W. Maynard, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980]. (6 pages, 663 kB)
UWFDM-383 Solute Redistribution in Heavy-Ion Bombarded Copper Base Alloys; R.W. Knoll, P. Wilkes, G.L. Kulcinski, October 1980. (25 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-384 A Literature Review of Radiation Damage Data for Copper; R.W. Knoll, October 1980. (34 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-385 WITAMIR-I Neutronics - Papers Presented in 1980 on Tandem Mirror Reactor Central Cell Neutronics; R.T. Perry and C.W. Maynard, October 1980. (70 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-386 Time Dependent Neutronics Analysis for the First Wall of the University of Wisconsin Heavy Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Design; M.E. Sawan, G.A. Moses, G.L. Kulcinski, October 1980 [Trans. ANS 38 (1981) 574, Nucl. Tech./Fusion 2 (1982) 215]. (33 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-387 On the Coefficient for Bulk Recombination of Vacancies and Interstitials; W.G. Wolfer and A. Si-Ahmed, October 1980 [J. Nucl. Matls. 99, 117-123 (1981)]. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)
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-389 Heat Flux, Erosion Rate, Implantation, and Damage Rate to the Walls of the EG&G Fusion Blanket Test Module; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and G.R. Longhurst, October 1980 [Nuclear Technology/Fusion 2, 120 (Jan. 1982)]. (40 pages, 1.5 MB) [more]
UWFDM-394 An Experimental Investigation of the Convective Heat Transfer Characteristics of Particle-Bed Type Fusion Blankets; R.E. Nietert and S.I. Abdel-Khalik, October 1980 [presented at the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980]. (11 pages, 912 kB)
UWFDM-338 The Current Perception of the Environmental Features of Fusion vs. Fission After a Decade of Study; G.L. Kulcinski, November 1980. (10 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-368 A Radio Frequency He- Source and a Source of Negative Ions by Cesium Sputtering; J.H. Billen, November 1980. (7 pages, 889 kB)
UWFDM-392 The Electrostatic Potential Profile in a Tandem Mirror Thermal Barrier; X.Z. Li and G.A. Emmert, November 1980. (23 pages, 925 kB)
UWFDM-393 A Model for Ion Trapping in a Thermal Barrier; X.Z. Li and G.A. Emmert, November 1980. (22 pages, 883 kB)
UWFDM-395 Coupled Target - Blanket Neutronics and Photonics Analysis for the University of Wisconsin Heavy Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Design; M.E. Sawan, W.F. Vogelsang, and G.A. Moses, November 1980 [Trans. ANS 38 (1981) 574]. (33 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-396 High Gain Target Spectra and Energy Partitioning for Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Design Studies; G. Moses, R. Peterson, M. Sawan, and W. Vogelsang, November 1980 [Bull Amer. Phys. Soc. 25, 1013 (1980)]. (18 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-352 Effects of the Fast Wave on the Drift-Cyclotron Loss-Cone Model; Ker-Chung Shaing, December 1980. (24 pages, 825 kB)
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-390 A Combined P3 Vitamin-C, MACK-IV, Coupled 25 Neutron-21 Gamma Group Cross Section Library - The U.W. Cross Section Library; R.T. Perry and G.A. Moses, December 1980. (38 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-397 Numerical Methods for Calculating the Temperature Increase in Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor First Walls; A. Hassanein and G.L. Kulcinski, December 1980. (43 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-398 Neutronics Shielding Analysis for the End Plug of a Tandem Mirror Fusion Reactor; M. Ragheb and C.W. Maynard, January 1981. (41 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-399 The TDA and TIMEX Codes for Time-Dependent Neutronics and Photonics Analysis of ICF Reactors; M.E. Sawan and G.A. Moses, January 1981. (36 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-401 Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis for a Fusion-Fission Hybrid System: SOLASE-H; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, January 1981. (71 pages, 2.5 MB)