The cost of these first works, excluding tax, is close to €12 million and the management services project is €269,492. Both the Presidency and the General Secretariat of the Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), within the Ministry of Science and Innovation, have announced a bidding process for the construction works of the […]
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Spain and Croatia sign a joint declaration to promote their collaboration in the IFMIF-DONES fusion energy project
The Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, and the Croatian Minister of Science and Education, Radovan Fuchs, signed a joint declaration on Wednesday to strengthen collaboration between the two countries within the project to build the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility -Demo Oriented Neutron Source (IFMIF – DONES) research infrastructure. With the signing […]
DONES Meetings, working as a team in favour of fusion energy
IFMIF-DONES España has launched a series of monthly meetings, in both virtual and face-to-face formats, to facilitate greater cohesion between the teams working in the IFMIF-DONES project. This series, announced under the name of DONES Meetings, have the aim to extend the project and seek new lines of collaboration with more working groups that can […]
Very close to fusion energy: Plasma-facing materials
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 […]
New record in fusion energy presents Spain with a unique opportunity to become a key player in the future
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 […]
IFMIF-DONES project at Expo 2020 Dubai
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 […]
Start of the bidding process for the works of the first auxiliary buildings of the IFMIF-DONES infrastructure in Escúzar (DONES-PRIME Program)
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 […]
IFMIF-DONES seminar in Italy: an opportunity to expand the international positioning of the project
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 […]
Interview: Ángel Ibarra, Director of the IFMIF-DONES Consortium
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 […]
IFMIF-DONES seminar: a facility for the radiation of fusion materials
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. […]
