The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) hosted the liaison committee meeting with representatives of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility and Demonstration Oriented Neutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) project. The project representatives presented the start-up strategy to the regulator during the meeting. They plan to apply for licensing of their first facilities in June 2026 and commissioning three […]

The director of the IFMIF-DONES Consortium, Ángel Ibarra, participated today in the Technical Conference on Archaeology in the Alhambra: Applied Sciences for the Study of Al-Andalus, organised by the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife. This meeting, which took place on the occasion of International World Heritage Day, brought together a significant group of […]

IFMIF-DONES has participated for the second consecutive year in Science Week, the largest annual scientific dissemination event at the European level. The Faculty of Science of the University of Granada hosted this new edition on 6 November. Three doctoral students from the IFMIF-DONES project gave an informative talk on nuclear fusion, the particle accelerator and […]

On 26 October, several members of our team participated in the Flag Day, organised by the Granada Red Cross. Numerous groups of young people passed by the IFMIF-DONES stand, accompanied by Red Cross volunteers. The day had 18 information stands of companies and organisations working on important aspects such as job orientation, training or intermediation […]

The second DONES Steering Committee, the highest governing body of the DONES Fusion Programme, has met in Granada on 26th October to review the progress of the programme, in particular the results of the panel of independent experts that analysed the current state of the DONES baseline. The preliminary review report of the experts panel […]

A delegation from the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), including Atsushi Kasugai, has visited the site where the particle accelerator will be built in Citai (Escúzar, Granada). The Deputy Director, Moisés Weber, and other members of the IFMIF-DONES team accompanied the Japanese colleagues during the tour. This visit occurred during […]

More than half a thousand scientists from 35 countries took part in the ICFRM-21 (International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials), which was held at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada from Sunday to Friday. The opening ceremony of the ICFRM-21 was held on Monday 23rd. It was attended by Angel Ibarra and María José Caturla, […]

On 19th and 20th October, the Granada Science Park will host the ‘Second DONES Users Workshop’, attended by a hundred scientists and technicians from 17 countries. The main objective of the scientific meeting of the “DONES Users”, which aims to be repeated on an annual basis, is to ensure that the IFMIF-DONES scientific infrastructure can […]

Last week, CERN hosted the presentation of the IFMIF-DONES facility and its diagnostic systems during the Hadron Beams Workshop. This biennial symposium brought together experts from the world’s foremost particle accelerators and high-power targets: CERN, Fermilab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, FRIB, Los Alamos, KEK, J-PARC, ESS, RAL, PSI, CSNS and LIPAc, among others. Claudio Torregrosa, […]

The acting Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has highlighted the opportunity for Spain and Andalusia that Granada will host the IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator, due to the social and economic impact that this facility, unique at international level and key to the development of clean energy, will have. The construction of IFMIF-DONES is one of […]