Calculations for a new electron-beam target design, which employs a very thick shell for shock focusing and attenuation of the deposition tail, are presented. Low-temperature material properties of the pusher (melting, vaporization) are crucial to target behaviour. Because of the cold inner pusher surface, standard shock-wave measurements can be used to study implosion dynamics, beam-target coupling, and materials response of ablatively-driven targets at high pressures (10 megabars) and high velocities (3 cm· μ−1) on current accelerators. The targets should be useful in early neutron production studies with ablative drivers; 106 neutrons are expected for 0.1 TW of 1-MeV electrons absorbed. Fuelpusher instability is not a problem, but irradiation uniformity of 1–2%, characteristic of all ablatively-driven designs at these powers, is required.