Ever since Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz definitively stated the law of conservation of energy in 1847, scientists have been trying to find out the cause of the un’s light. And the first plausible conjectures about this question were meteoric. Formulated by Julius Robert Mayer and John James Waterston, they assumed that heavy meteoroid precipitation […]
At the beginning of February 2022, a breaking news story was published in the field of fusion. JET, the largest experimental fusion facility currently in operation, has set a new record reaching 59MJ of energy in 5 seconds. This represents more than double of what was achieved in 1997 in the same facility. But beyond […]
Ángel Ibarra, Director of IFMIF-DONES España, presented the project in Spain’s pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and met investors and representatives of universities and technological and research parks of the United Arab Emirates. The IFMIF-DONES project was present at Expo 2020 Dubai as part of the institutional and entrepreneurial mission organised by the Chamber of […]
Recreation of the IFMIF-DONES plant, with the area related to this action defined in red. The General Secretariat of the Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), within the Ministry of Science and Innovation, has announced a bidding process worth €172,000 (excluding tax) for the completion of management services to supervise the construction works […]
Italy can contribute significantly to the technical and industrial implementation of the project This online international gathering was organised at a moment in which the individual contributions of different countries are being defined. In this sense, ENEA and INFN (Italy) are evaluating possible in-kind contributions in the fields of design and technological development, enabling the […]
Ángel Ibarra Sánchez, Director of the IFMIF-DONES Consortium, is Doctor in Physics by the Autonomous University of Madrid. For over 35 years, Ibarra has worked in different aspects related to the fusion technological challenges as a source of energy, with particular emphasis in materials and their reaction to radiation. Head of the Fusion Technologies Division […]
The Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering of the University of Granada has organised for December 15 a seminar on IFMIF-DONES: a facility for the radiation of fusion materials. The speakers of the seminar, which will take place at Fuentenueva Campus, will be Jorge Maestre, Claudio Torregrosa and Santiago Becerril, members of the IFMIF-DONES Technical Office. […]
The IFMIF-DONES Project was present at the 21st Science Week in Andalucía, where the initiative was presented in a talk about nuclear fusion as the future’s energy. This talk was directed to the general public and organised by the University of Granada and Fundación Descubre. Iván Podadera, from CIEMAT, and Claudio Torregrosa, from the University […]
Humanity is going through a turbulent period, driven by the pressing need to act in the face of such major challenges as the climate and water crisis, the growing global demand for energy, the depletion of carbon and actinide-based fuel reserves and the harmful effects on health and the environment resulting from the use of […]
The bilingual school Colegio Monaita received the Coordinator of the IFMIF-DONES Technical Office, José Aguilar, at its library, who gave a talk to the school’s students. Approximately sixty female students attended this talk about the IFMIF-DONES project and its role in the development of fusion energy. The students, aged between 15 and 17, learned about […]
