Category: Dones Updates

More than 70 candidates to provide technical support to IFMIF-DONES

More than 70 candidates to provide technical support to IFMIF-DONES

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 […]

A European project will boost the expansion of the scientific community using DONES

A European project will boost the expansion of the scientific community using DONES

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

IFMIF-DONES celebrates the commissioning of the “sister project” JT-60SA

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 50 Japanese companies shot their interest in participating in DONES

More than 50 Japanese companies shot their interest in participating in DONES

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 […]

IFMIF-DONES impact on health could be revolutionary

IFMIF-DONES impact on health could be revolutionary

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 highlights IFMIF-DONES as a “major work project”

The King of Spain highlights IFMIF-DONES as a “major work project”

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 […]

Eurofusion’s international meeting in Toledo on IFMIF-DONES

Eurofusion’s international meeting in Toledo on IFMIF-DONES

The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) held a technical meeting on 23 and 24 November at the Toledo Campus within the framework of the European programme for the development of nuclear fusion atomic energy, Eurofusion (Early Neutron Source work package). The regional university is part of this European programme as an affiliated entity of the […]

Humour as a tool for popularizing science

Humour as a tool for popularizing science

We like humour as a tool for popularizing science. For this reason, we continue to spread the IFMIF-DONES-inspired cartoons by Medio Yunque, an engineer and illustrator from Granada. In this new issue, Medio Yunque invites us to travel future to discover the new HORO fever. Will the Costa del Sol be the new Dorado in […]

IFMIF-DONES “humanises” artificial intelligence

IFMIF-DONES “humanises” artificial intelligence

  Our Deputy Director, Moisés Weber, has spoken at Andalusia’s 1st Artificial Intelligence Congress, held on 22 and 23 November at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada. During his conference, entitled “IFMIF-DONES, in your image and likeness”, he presented the strategy of IFMIF-DONES in artificial intelligence. He was accompanied by the robot dog Spoty and […]

IFMIF-DONES’ strong international presence in London

IFMIF-DONES’ strong international presence in London

The 62nd IAEA International Fusion Research Council (IFRC) meeting, held on 15 October in London, was attended by Moisés Weber, Deputy Director of IFMIF-DONES Spain, representing the Director, Ángel Ibarra. During his participation, Weber presented the current situation of fusion energy in Spain through the contribution “Fusion in Spain”. Afterwards, he participated in the Council’s […]

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