SCIENTIFIC FEASIBILITY OF FUSION MATERIAL IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS IN ESS-B

Material irradiation by protons is capable of simulating the effects of fusion neutrons (14 MeV, target damaging and He & H production) with a reasonably fast dose rate, according to theoretical calculations and previous experiments. Therefore, given that the ESSBilbao (ESS-B) accelerator, under construction in Bilbao, will provide an intense source of 50 MeV protons, with