It will be the first time that this international conference is held in Spain Every two years, the International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM) brings together the leading scientists and technologists in this field. The nineteenth edition of this conference was held in La Jolla, San Diego (California, USA) from October 27 to November […]
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European project celebrates its first General Assembly for the implementation of a particle accelerator in Granada
The DONES Preparatory Phase, with a €4 million budget from the EuropeanCommission, will address financial, legal and organisational aspectsfor the construction of the IFMIF-DONES infrastructure in Escuzar The DONES Preparatory Phase (DONES-PreP), with a total budget of €4 million from the European Commission, celebrated last 10th of October its kick-off meeting and first General Assembly […]
LIPAc accelerator breaks ion current world record
The aim of LIPAc is to validate the engineering design of a future DONES neutron source that will soon be built in Granada Last June, a deuteron accelerator, designed and operated under an international framework reached a 125-mA current. This is the highest intensity reached by a linear accelerator. The device is LIPAc (Linear IFMIF […]
A meeting with Polish companies and institutions promotes the participation in the IFMIF-DONES project
The event also allows to identify the areas for a possible Polish contribution On September 17, an Infoday, organized by CERN and Wroclawski Park Technologiczny SA, was held at the Zielna center in Warsaw (Poland). This initiative consists of a meeting with companies, research centres and other institutions related to the Polish energy and technology […]
Spain and Croatia join forces to host the DONES facility
Spain and Croatia flagged their interest to host DONES. Consequently, a technical group of experts was put together to visit the sites proposed by the two countries, evaluate their compliance with the technical requirements and communicate the findings in a report. In order to prepare the ground for future fusion reactors beyond ITER, Europe and […]