How do accelerators work? What is a particle beam? How are particles accelerated? These are some of the questions addressed in the handbook ‘La física de los aceleradores a través de la física de la vida cotidiana y del Universo’, edited by CIEMAT and which the University of Granada will hand out at its stand […]

One of the key challenges of the IFMIF-DONES project is the development and validation of sensors and monitoring devices capable of withstanding large neutron fluxes. This is the reason why the particle accelerator was a topic addressed at the PhDiaFusion Summer School of Plasma Diagnostics celebrated between September 20th and 24th in Niepołomice Royal Castle, […]

The IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator has been present this year at the European Researchers’ Night celebrated in Granada. With a space at the University of Granada’s (UGR) stand, dissemination activities were organised oriented to students and the general public interested in this large scientific infrastructure that Granada aspires to build. In the morning session, scientists involved […]

Approximately 50 researchers, scientists, and representatives of public bodies and of the Spanish Industry of Science participated in the event ‘Fusion-a2 hacia el futuro’ organised by the IFMIF-DONES Consortium and the Center of Pulsed Lasers (CLPU) in Salamanca (Spain). The event aimed at analysing the role of these two large facilities in the race towards […]

The Bureau of the Andalusian Parliament adopted an institutional declaration stressing the potential of the province of Granada and its support to the candidacy of the IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator in Escúzar. This declaration, which will be read in the next plenary session of the Parliament, describes this infrastructure as the decisive boost that will place […]

The IFMIF-DONES Consortium and the Andalusian Association of Civil Engineers have organised a technical visit to the site in Escúzar where IFMIF-DONES is planned to be built. This is the first of a series of technical visits for different professionals to the site where the scientific infrastructure will be built, arranged by the IFMIF-DONES Consortium […]

As already mentioned in previous issues, the future IFMIF-DONES facility requires a linear accelerator with very high power and current. To test and validate the technology of these machines, and as part of the IFMIF/EVEDA project, the LIPAc accelerator (Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator) has been installed in Rokkasho (Japan), capable of reaching a power of […]

The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) celebrated last September 22 its second session to discuss the European Green Deal. This online meeting is part of the 77th ESFRI Plenary. The Director of the IFMIF-DONES Consortium, Ángel Ibarra, presented the particle accelerator project within the framework of a talk about the research and development […]

Tony Donné – EUROfusion Programme Manager Tony Donné has been Programme Manager of the EUROfusion research consortium since June 2014. Trained as a physicist, he obtained his PhD degree at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1985 for work in the field of nuclear physics. He joined fusion research right after obtaining his PhD and […]

The Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP) Conference 2021 (Prague, September 12-17, 2021) included in its program an online session on ‘Facilities for complementary physics experiments at the IFMIF-DONES fusion neutron source’ presented by Wojciech Królas, researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ PAN) in Poland, partner in the DONES Preparatory Phase project. Królas described in […]