Ángel Ibarra, Director of the IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium, and Luis Monasterio, Senior Materials Scientist at IFMIF-DONES, attended the first Technical Meeting organised by the IAEA on tritium breeding blankets.

The conference, held from September 1 to 5 in Vienna (Austria), focused on the exchange of technical knowledge, discussions on nuclear qualification procedures, and the sharing of lessons learned from the ITER TBM program to guide the development of these materials for future fusion facilities.

Tritium breeding blankets are among the most essential and innovative technical components in any post-ITER device, as they enable the continuous regeneration of tritium to fuel the fusion reaction.