The Director of the IFMIF-DONES Consortium, Ángel Ibarra, has had a work meeting with the Government Sub-delegate in Granada, Inmaculada López, in which the progress of the project was reported. Also, the roadmap of the Consortium established in June to support and boost Granada’s candidacy as the site for the large scientific infrastructure was presented. […]
Rogelio Velasco, Regional Minister for Economy Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities of the Junta de Andalucía Rogelio Velasco is the Regional Minister for Economy Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities of the Junta de Andalucía since 2019. Throughout his career, he has successfully combined his international vocation with a deep knowledge and care for Andalucía. Rogelio […]
The deadline for applications begins today and ends next September 3 The Contracts and Tenders Service at the University of Granada has launched a call for tenders to conduct a Cost-Benefit Analysis and provide advisory and consultancy services for the IFMIF-DONES facility, in accordance with the requirements of the European Commission and JASPERS within the […]
The IFMIF-DONES website recently created a new section where companies, institutions and educational centres interested in participating in the particle accelerator project can contact the project directly. With the idea of maximising the success of the project, this new line of direct communication aims at involving public and private agents that are part of the […]
Tonči Tadić, Croatian Fusion Research Unit Coordinator and researcher at RBI, presented the role of the institution in the different international projects related to fusion, including IFMIF-DONES The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) participated last June 9 in the Power and Energy Masters Conference in Croatia. The conference organised jointly the 14th International Symposium Power and […]
The Governing Council passed the action plan and budget for 2021 and appointed Ángel Ibarra as Acting Director of the Consortium The Consortium to support the construction of the IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator in Granada held its first Governing Council meeting on July 5, in which both the action plan and budget for 2021 were passed. […]
One year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team of engineers from Europe and Japan working on LIPAc, the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator, have got used to a combination of on-site and remote working to carry out their activities. This facility located in Rokkasho (Japan) will allow scientists to validate the engineering design of the particle […]
Marek Lewitowicz – Chairman of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) Prof. Dr Marek Lewitowicz is the Chairman of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC), one of the Expert Committees of European Science Foundation. He is currently Research Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique at GANIL laboratory in Caen (France). He […]
REVIEWING IFMIF In previous articles we saw that the formidable energy radiated by stars —and the Sun is one of them— is a consequence of fusion reactions that take place in its core. We also know that reproducing and controlling these reactions on our planet is a difficult challenge for science, technology and industry. Nevertheless, […]
Paola Batistoni – Head of the Fusion Development Unit of ENEA Paola Batistoni started working in fusion research more than thirty-five years ago at the ENEA Centre in Frascati. Since the beginning, Batistoni has been involved in fusion technology, in particular in fusion neutronics, both on tokamak diagnostics (on FTU, JET, TFTR, ITER) and on […]
