• G.N. Kropachev, A. Aleev, A.D. Fertman, R.P. Kuibeda, T.V. Kulevoy, A.A. Nikitin, S.V. Rogozhkin, A.I. Semennikov
  ITEP, Moscow
• M. Cavenago
  INFN/LNL, Legnaro

Development of new materials for future energy facilities with higher operating efficiency is a challenging and crucial task. However, full-scale testing of radiation hardness of reactor materials is quite sophisticated and difficult as it requires long session of reactor irradiation; moreover, induced radioactivity considerably complicates further investigation. Ion beam irradiation does not have such a drawback, on the contrary, it has certain advantages. One of them is high speed of defect formation. Therefore, it provides a useful tool for modeling of different radiation damages. Improved understanding of material behavior under high dose irradiation will probably allow to simulate reactor irradiation close to real conditions and to make an adequate estimation of material radiation hardness. Since 2008 in ITEP the ion beam irradiation experiments are under development at the ITEP heavy ion RFQ HIP-1. The main objectives of this work are to study primary damage, cascade formation phenomena, phase stability and self-organization under irradiation. This research is carried out by means of tomographic atom probe and transmission electron microscopy. This linac provides accelerated beams of Cu²⁺, Fe²⁺, Cr²⁺ ions with current up to 10 mA and energy 101 keV/n. The first experiments with ion beam at the linac injector demonstrated promising results. The linac output beam line is now under upgrade. The results of beam extraction line adjustment for experiments with reactor materials are presented. The construction of controllable heated target is presented as well.