Field-reversed configuration (FRC) power plants appear likely to provide an excellent balance between potential reactor attractiveness and technical development risk. In particular, (1) the linear, cylindrical FRC geometry facilitates the design of tritium-breeding blankets, shields, magnets, and input-power systems, and (2) the high FRC beta (plasma pressure/magnetic field pressure) increases the plasma power density and allows a compact reactor design. With regard to fusion development, the FRC provides a good balance between physics uncertainty and engineering attractiveness. The trade-offs among physics, engineering, safety, and environmental considerations have only recently gained prominence, and excellent progress is being made by the small worldwide FRC research community regarding physics obstacles. 1. 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) 2. 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) 3. 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) 4. 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) 5. 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) 6. 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]. 7. 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) 8. 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]. 9. 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) 10. 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) 11. 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) 12. 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) 13. 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) 14. 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)