Category: Dones Updates

Claudio Torregrosa (Alicante, 1989) is an industrial engineer specialising in Nuclear Technology from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He also holds a PhD in Engineering from the UPV. Torregrosa stresses the importance of the construction of IFMIF-DONES for the international scientific community. QUESTION. What are your […]

Following the signing of the works staking out act, held on 15 September, the first works on the plot have begun with the installation of the fencing and auxiliary services and the first excavation works. The works, promoted by CIEMAT, will be carried out by the construction company EDHINOR, under the supervision of SAN JUAN […]

Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (Barcelona, 1970) is the president of the Junta de Andalucía since 2019. The regional government is part of the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, together with the Ministry of Science and Innovation. The president of Andalusia has full confidence in the technological, environmental and developmental implications of the construction in Granada of the […]

The new science outreach session organised by IFMIF-DONES explored the latest developments in Virtual, Augmented, Mixed and Metaverse Reality. The meeting, open to the public and also broadcast in streaming, took place in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Granada, on 23 September, from 11 am to 1 pm. […]

The IFMIF-DONES Users’ Workshop will be held as video-conference on September 26-28, 2022

The consortium formed to carry out DIBA has developed a critical signal digitization project through low-latency communications based on high-performance synchronization, with direct application to IFMIF-DONES, the future facility in Granada that will house a particle accelerator in the that the materials with which fusion energy reactors will be built in the future will be […]

The UGR-DONES research centre has been conceived as a space in which to develop research of excellence in the field of the project. This building, which will be a pioneer in Spain, will favour the development of scientific and technological activities that optimise the exploitation and operation of the facility but do not require continuous […]

On 24 June, the School of Civil Engineering of the UGR hosted the fifth meeting of DONES Meeting series, dedicated on this occasion to topics related to miniature specimens, degradation in steels subjected to irradiation, fusion materials and material modelling techniques. A specialised seminar with contributions from Marta Serrano, head of Ciemat’s Materials of Energy […]

The companies Edhinor SA and San Juan Arquitectura SL have been awarded the contract for the works and the project management for the construction of the first buildings of IFMIF-DONES, a scientific infrastructure to be implemented in the Metropolitan Industrial and Technological Park of Escúzar. This action is carried out within the framework of the […]

Within the framework of the Science Week, an informative talk was organised at IES Pedro Soto de Rojas in Granada last May, promoted by teacher Alonso Gijón. Daniel Sánchez, Coordinator of configuration and integration of designs and 3D models, and Iván Podadera, Deputy Coordinator of accelerator systems, were in charge of this talk, adapted to […]