Consorcio IFMIF-DONES España, Granada, Spain
UGR, Granada, Spain
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
ENEA Brasimone, Centro Ricerche Brasimone, Camugnano, BO, Italy
CEA-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Fusion for Energy, Garching, Germany
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
CER, Budapest, Hungary
Lund University, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund, Sweden
KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
IFJ-PAN, Kraków, Poland
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme, Karlsruhe, Germany
IREC, Sant Adria del Besos, Spain
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Empresarios Agrupados, Madrid, Spain
IFMIF-DONES (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility- DEMO-Oriented Neutron Early Source) - a powerful neutron irradiation facility for studies and certification of materials to be used in fusion reactors - is planned as part of the European roadmap to fusion electricity. Its main goal will be to characterize and to qualify materials under irradiation in a neutron field similar to the one faced in a fusion reactor. The intense neutron source is produced by impinging deuterons, from high-power linear deuteron accelerator, on a liquid lithium curtain. The facility has accomplished the preliminary design phase and is currently in its detailed design phase. At the present stage, it is important to have a clear understanding of how the commissioning of the facility will be performed, especially the commissioning of a 5 MW CW deuteron beam, together with the lithium curtain and the beam optimization for the neutron irradiation. In this contribution, the present plans for the hardware and beam commissioning of the accelerator will be given, focusing on the most critical aspects of the tiered approach and on the integration of the procedure with the lithium and tests systems.
