UW-FRC
University of Wisconsin Field-Reversed Configuration power plant
Cross section of UW Field Reversed Configuration.
FTI Publications
UWFDM-972 Advanced-Fuel Heat Flux, Power Density and Direct Conversion Issues; J.F. Santarius, November 1994 [Presented at the Sixth International Toki Conference, Toki-City, Japan, 29 November - 2 December 1994; published in Fusion Technology 27 (April 1995)]. (7 pages, 744 kB)
UWFDM-1062 Could Advanced Fusion Fuels Be Used with Today's Technology?; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly, H.Y. Khater, January 1998 [presented at Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting, August 27-29, 1997, Aspen CO; Journal of Fusion Energy, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1998, p. 33]. (18 pages, 828 kB)
UWFDM-1068 FRC Power Plants - A Fusion Development Perspective; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, C.N. Nguyen, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, April 1998 [to be published in the Proceedings of the U.S.-Japan Workshop on the Physics of High-Beta Fusion Plasmas (Seattle, Washington, March 18-20, 1998)]. (10 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1084 Field-Reversed Configuration Power Plant Critical Issues; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, C.N. Nguyen, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, June 1998. (7 pages, 281 kB) [more]
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-1129 Final Report for the Field-Reversed Configuration Power Plant Critical-Issue Scoping Study; J.F. Santarius, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, C.N. Nguyen, S.V. Ryzhkov, M.D. Stubna, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, March 2000. (72 pages, 2.4 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1130 Field-Reversed Configurations for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, June 2000 [presented at the 31st AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 19-22 June 2000, Denver CO].
UWFDM-1136 A Helium Cooled Li2O Straight Tube Blanket Design for Cylindrical Geometry; E.A. Mogahed, H.Y. Khater, J.F. Santarius, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT; published in Fusion Technology, Part 2, 39, 639 (2001)]. (7 pages, 340 kB)
UWFDM-1214 A Passively Proliferation-Proof Fusion Power Plant; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly, 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, 289 (2003)]. (8 pages, 669 kB)
Field-Reversed Configuration Fusion Power Plants;
John F. Santarius,
June 1999 [Presented at the Workshop on Status and Promising Directions for FRC Research, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 8 June 1999].
A Helium Cooled Li2O Straight Tube Blanket Design for Cylindrical Geometry;
E.A. Mogahed, H.Y. Khater, J.F. Santarius,
October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (1 page, 344 kB)
Fusion Space Propulsion Using Field-Reversed Configurations;
J.F. Santarius,
April 2001 [presented at the NASA-JPL/MSFC/AIAA Twelfth Annual Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop, University of Alabama-Huntsville, April 3-5, 2001]. (15 pages, 1.1 MB)
Proliferation-Proof Fusion Power;
J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly,
January 2002 [Presented at the Innovative Confinement Concepts Conference and Fusion Skunkworks, 22-24 January 2002, College Park MD]. (14 pages, 222 kB)
A Passively Proliferation-Proof Fusion Power Plant;
J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly,
November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC]. (1 page, 1.2 MB)