The IFMIF-DONES team, the driving force behind the project, relies on professionals with a spectacular background in the field of engineering and research. They bring their previous experience and knowledge together with great enthusiasm, turning the day-to-day work into an exciting place where all the steps that have been taken from the beginning can be […]
Category: Dones Updates
Publication of the bidding processes for the construction of the service buildings and urbanization of the IFMIF-DONES infrastructure in Escúzar
The cost of these first works, excluding tax, is close to €12 million and the management services project is €269,492. Both the Presidency and the General Secretariat of the Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), within the Ministry of Science and Innovation, have announced a bidding process for the construction works of the […]
Spain and Croatia sign a joint declaration to promote their collaboration in the IFMIF-DONES fusion energy project
The Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, and the Croatian Minister of Science and Education, Radovan Fuchs, signed a joint declaration on Wednesday to strengthen collaboration between the two countries within the project to build the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility -Demo Oriented Neutron Source (IFMIF – DONES) research infrastructure. With the signing […]
DONES Meetings, working as a team in favour of fusion energy
IFMIF-DONES España has launched a series of monthly meetings, in both virtual and face-to-face formats, to facilitate greater cohesion between the teams working in the IFMIF-DONES project. This series, announced under the name of DONES Meetings, have the aim to extend the project and seek new lines of collaboration with more working groups that can […]
Very close to fusion energy: Plasma-facing materials
Ever since Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz definitively stated the law of conservation of energy in 1847, scientists have been trying to find out the cause of the un’s light. And the first plausible conjectures about this question were meteoric. Formulated by Julius Robert Mayer and John James Waterston, they assumed that heavy meteoroid precipitation […]
New record in fusion energy presents Spain with a unique opportunity to become a key player in the future
At the beginning of February 2022, a breaking news story was published in the field of fusion. JET, the largest experimental fusion facility currently in operation, has set a new record reaching 59MJ of energy in 5 seconds. This represents more than double of what was achieved in 1997 in the same facility. But beyond […]
IFMIF-DONES project at Expo 2020 Dubai
Ángel Ibarra, Director of IFMIF-DONES España, presented the project in Spain’s pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and met investors and representatives of universities and technological and research parks of the United Arab Emirates. The IFMIF-DONES project was present at Expo 2020 Dubai as part of the institutional and entrepreneurial mission organised by the Chamber of […]
Start of the bidding process for the works of the first auxiliary buildings of the IFMIF-DONES infrastructure in Escúzar (DONES-PRIME Program)
Recreation of the IFMIF-DONES plant, with the area related to this action defined in red. The General Secretariat of the Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), within the Ministry of Science and Innovation, has announced a bidding process worth €172,000 (excluding tax) for the completion of management services to supervise the construction works […]
IFMIF-DONES seminar in Italy: an opportunity to expand the international positioning of the project
Italy can contribute significantly to the technical and industrial implementation of the project This online international gathering was organised at a moment in which the individual contributions of different countries are being defined. In this sense, ENEA and INFN (Italy) are evaluating possible in-kind contributions in the fields of design and technological development, enabling the […]
Escúzar City Council and CIEMAT sign land transfer agreement for the construction of IFMIF-DONES
The construction of the fist buildings, laboratories, and prototypes related to IFMIF-DONES will begin in 2022 The Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology Research (CIEMAT), assigned to the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and Escúzar City Council signed today the land transfer agreement for the construction of the scientific and technical infrastructure ‘International Fusion Materials […]
