Fusion Materials Irradiation Test Facilities: Systematic Review of Data Gaps for Design Codes

Authors

  • Corstiaan Elshout Centre for Fusion Materials, Wadden Institute for Future Science, Den Helder, Netherlands Author
  • Antero Kemppainen Centre for Fusion Materials, Nuuksio Centre for Anticipatory Research, Vihti, Finland Author
  • Ezio Doglioni Department of Standards, Aspromonte Centre for Anticipatory Research, Reggio Calabria, Italy Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22676846

Keywords:

Fusion Materials Irradiation Test Facilities; Future science and technology; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Fusion Materials Irradiation Test Facilities has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for fusion materials irradiation test facilities, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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2025-09-03