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 […]

IFMIF-DONES celebrates the commissioning of the “sister project” JT-60SA On 1 December, the fusion energy industry celebrated its latest significant milestone: the inauguration in Japan of the JT-60SA, the world’s largest and most advanced tokamak fusion reactor. The inauguration ceremony, held in Naka (Japan), brought together Kadri Simson, EU Commissioner for Energy, and Masahito Moriyama, […]

More than fifty Japanese companies participated on 4 December in the DONES Industry Infoday held in Tokyo, Japan. During the meeting attended by our director, Ángel Ibarra, Japanese companies showed their interest in participating in the DONES program. After the success of the event, it plans to organize future B2B conferences between the Spanish and […]

Radioisotopes are indispensable for sentinel lymph node biopsies or the treatment of prostate cancer. However, producing these chemicals is very expensive, and even the market only sometimes meets the demand. The health sector is, therefore, aware of the need to secure this essential supply for oncological diagnostics. “IFMIF-DONES can be a great factory of radioisotopes,” […]

The King of Spain, Felipe VI, described the particle accelerator in Escúzar (Granada) as a “major global project” during the presentation of the Rei Jaume I Awards, which took place today in Valencia. “Spain has major global projects, such as IFMIF-DONES, which will contribute from Granada to the development of fusion energy,” said the monarch […]