“The particle accelerator can also be considered the most complex, sophisticated, and magnificent machine that the human mind has ever designed and built. There are other great constructions that are part of human heritage, such as the temples, the pyramids in Egypt, the temples of Angkor in Cambodia or the Great Wall in China. They […]
Almost fifty people already make up ‘Women in DONES’ (WiD). The group comprises professionals from different fields, such as engineers, professors, pre-doctoral students, researchers, biomedical researchers, administrative technicians, and industrial sector representatives from other cities and countries who work around IFMIF-DONES. On February 6, they held a new online meeting. The meeting served to distribute […]
The Atomic and Nuclear Structure group of the University of Granada (UGR), in collaboration with researchers from CIEMAT, has recently published a paper demonstrating that IFMIF-DONES could supply Spanish hospitals with the most widely used radioisotope in the diagnosis of diseases: molybdenum-technetium. Moreover, this could be done without interfering with the normal operation of the […]
The IFMIF-DONES España Consortium and the Red Cross organised an activity at the Science Park to commemorate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Some thirty users of the ‘Bridges for Equality in Employment’ project of the humanitarian organisation learned who they are and what they do several representatives of Women in DONES […]
IFMIF-DONES team members Santiago Becerril (Test Systems Coordinator) and Claudio Torregrosa (Diagnostics Coordinator) visited the nTOF NEAR facility at CERN on 19 January, together with researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), Alberto Palma, Miguel Ángel Carvajal, Irene Álvarez and Juan Antonio Moreno. The visit and associated meetings were carried out in the context of […]
The president of the Diputación de Granada, Francisco Rodríguez, trusts IFMIF-DONES as a driving force for the province’s development. In his opinion, the location of the largest scientific infrastructure in the country in a completely rural environment is an example of the new socio-economic paradigm that the provincial institution will promote. QUESTION (Q). A municipality […]
Santiago Becerril (Barcelona, 1975) is an Industrial Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia specialising in Machine Mechanics. During his career at IFMIF-DONES, since March 2021, he has accumulated responsibility in various aspects of the project. Among the most important is the coordination of the Test Systems Area, one of the largest that will make […]
The MuVacAS (Multipurpose Vacuum Accident Scenarios) facility, a scale prototype of the last 30 metres of the particle accelerator’s vacuum chambers, has been received by the University of Granada and the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium MuVacAS is currently operative in the facilities of Tekniker, in Eibar, Guipúzcoa. In the next months it will be transported and […]
More than 70 professionals have shown interest in providing technical support to IFMIF-DONES. These candidacies have been addressed to the Technical Support Staff Contracts 2023 application process for grants called by the State Research Agency. Thanks to the job profiles received, the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium has completed and submitted three applications to support the first […]
Ten European organisations have launched the DONES-ConP1 project, funded by the European Commission. The project aims to expand the DONES user community and strengthen partners’ participation in the programme. Creating a DONES user group working in experimental areas complementary to fusion research will make it possible to evaluate other irradiation module alternatives other than its […]
