The engineering team currently working on IFMIF-DONES has held the Work Package European Neutron Source Technical Meeting #13 in Granada. The meeting was attended by scientists from 17 countries of the European Union, with the aim of coordinating the design activities that are being carried out for the development of the systems that make up […]
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DONES Meeting #04, an approach to the possibilities of the Digital Twin of IFMIF-DONES
The School of Building Engineering has hosted the DONES Meeting #04, which has focused this time on the control systems of the IFMIF-DONES facility, and the possibility of incorporating a digital twin that integrates both the model of the facility and the physics that takes place within it. Once again, the seminar could be followed […]
Seismic risk management in the IFMIF-DONES project
Earthquakes There is no doubt that those of us who live on Earth perceive that our planet is moving. Its movements can be classified as external and internal. The most obvious of these are the rotation around the polar axis, which is responsible for the diurnal cycle, and the translation around the sun, which causes […]
The physics of accelerators, explained for all ages at the Gravite Festival inaugural day
Science starred in the inaugural day of the 4th edition of the Gravite Festival in Granada, dedicated this year to the third culture, and with time travel as its leitmotif. Moisés Weber and Iván Podadera, from IFMIF-DONES España, presented the manual ‘The physics of accelerators… through the physics of everyday life and the Universe’, written […]
Students from IES Zaidín Vergeles, closer to holding the key to a Sun on Earth
The XXIII Solar Week organised by the IES Zaidín Vergeles Secondary School in Granada was attended by Claudio Torregrosa and Iván Podadera, engineers at IFMIF-DONES, who brought the project closer to students in the final year of high school, and in the first and second years of Upper Secondary School, with a didactic talk entitled […]
Diana Morant: “IFMIF-DONES will place Spain at the vanguard of the next technological revolution”
Diana Morant, (Gandía, 1980), is the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation since July 2021. Her agenda at the Ministry started with a major boost: the Council of Ministers has just approved her reform of the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation, on which she has been working with the main players in the sector, […]
Energy sustainability and its challenges, discussed at the Faculty of Science in Granada
The series of conferences “Energy: Where are the keys? Towards energy sustainability”, organised by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Granada (UGR) during the month of April, held a talk followed by a debate on the technological challenges related to the production of fusion energy. The talk was given by Ángel Ibarra, Director […]
Relevance and opportunities for industry participation in the DONES project
CDTI organised a conference focused on the collaboration between Singular Science and Technology Infrastructures (ICTS) and the Spanish science industry During the Science Industry Day organised by CDTI (Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology) on April 26th, Ángel Ibarra, Director of IFMIF-DONES España, had the opportunity to explain how in the case of the […]
Students of the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the UCM learn first-hand about the IFMIF-DONES project
The Cycle of Conferences “Let’s talk about Physics” organised by the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid hosted Ángel Ibarra, Director of IFMIF-DONES España. Under the title “The IFMIF-DONES project”, Ibarra presented the raison d’être of the project in the Aula Magna of the faculty, specifying the status of its development […]
Learning and fun in the Science Week organised by IES Bulyana
Science justifies “why things happen”, “there is science behind all magic” or “learning and fun”. These were some of the slogans employed during the 8th Science Week organised by IES Bulyana (Pulianas, Granada), in which the IFMIF-DONES project was present with José Aguilar, Coordinator of the Technical Office. The main purpose of the talk given […]
