IFMIF-DONES celebrates the commissioning of the “sister project” JT-60SA On 1 December, the fusion energy industry celebrated its latest significant milestone: the inauguration in Japan of the JT-60SA, the world’s largest and most advanced tokamak fusion reactor. The inauguration ceremony, held in Naka (Japan), brought together Kadri Simson, EU Commissioner for Energy, and Masahito Moriyama, […]

More than fifty Japanese companies participated on 4 December in the DONES Industry Infoday held in Tokyo, Japan. During the meeting attended by our director, Ángel Ibarra, Japanese companies showed their interest in participating in the DONES program. After the success of the event, it plans to organize future B2B conferences between the Spanish and […]

Radioisotopes are indispensable for sentinel lymph node biopsies or the treatment of prostate cancer. However, producing these chemicals is very expensive, and even the market only sometimes meets the demand. The health sector is, therefore, aware of the need to secure this essential supply for oncological diagnostics. “IFMIF-DONES can be a great factory of radioisotopes,” […]

The King of Spain, Felipe VI, described the particle accelerator in Escúzar (Granada) as a “major global project” during the presentation of the Rei Jaume I Awards, which took place today in Valencia. “Spain has major global projects, such as IFMIF-DONES, which will contribute from Granada to the development of fusion energy,” said the monarch […]

The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) held a technical meeting on 23 and 24 November at the Toledo Campus within the framework of the European programme for the development of nuclear fusion atomic energy, Eurofusion (Early Neutron Source work package). The regional university is part of this European programme as an affiliated entity of the […]

We like humour as a tool for popularizing science. For this reason, we continue to spread the IFMIF-DONES-inspired cartoons by Medio Yunque, an engineer and illustrator from Granada. In this new issue, Medio Yunque invites us to travel future to discover the new HORO fever. Will the Costa del Sol be the new Dorado in […]

  Our Deputy Director, Moisés Weber, has spoken at Andalusia’s 1st Artificial Intelligence Congress, held on 22 and 23 November at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada. During his conference, entitled “IFMIF-DONES, in your image and likeness”, he presented the strategy of IFMIF-DONES in artificial intelligence. He was accompanied by the robot dog Spoty and […]

The 62nd IAEA International Fusion Research Council (IFRC) meeting, held on 15 October in London, was attended by Moisés Weber, Deputy Director of IFMIF-DONES Spain, representing the Director, Ángel Ibarra. During his participation, Weber presented the current situation of fusion energy in Spain through the contribution “Fusion in Spain”. Afterwards, he participated in the Council’s […]

Raúl is the name of the virtual partner of the team of people working on IFMIF-DONES. His public presentation occurred during the conference given by José Aguilar, coordinator of the Technical Office, at Talking about Artificial Intelligence (#TAIGranada), held last week in Granada. Aguilar talked to Raúl about different issues, including how the particle accelerator […]

The ‘DONES runners’ team participated yesterday in the Granada Red Cross Run, organised in collaboration with the Granada City Council Sports Department and sponsored by the Fundación Caja Rural de Granada. Before the start, Gabino García, special delegate of the Red Cross in Granada; Francisco González, coordinator of the Red Cross in Granada; and the […]