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...FUROR over cold fusion began on March 23, as chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann shocked the scientific world with the claim that they had beaten the physicists at their own game. Other scientists were cautious, but Dan Rather dived in headfirst. He led off the CBS Evening News that night with a fusion report, gushing about "what may be a tremendous scientific advance." Only a week later, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University announced that he too had been producing cold fusion independently, generating neutrons but not heat. On April 1, two Hungarian scientists said that they...
Wolfgang H.E. Rueckner, a staff member of the Advanced Physics Laboratory which is trying to duplicate the Pons-Fleischmann experiment with titanium instead of palladium, called the MIT results disappointing. He added, however, that he will continue his experiment, since his device for detecting neutrons emitted in the reaction is 100 times more efficient than the methods used by the Utah team...
Rueckner said that he would be convinced only when results are announced at the Los Alamos National Lab, which is using an exact duplicate of the apparatus Pons and Fleischmann used...
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac F. Silvera, who is also trying to reproduce the Utah results, said that he will continue his experiment because he is using a different method than the one Pons and Fleischmann used...
Ronald R. Parker, the director of MIT's Plasma Fusion Center and a member of Petrasso's research team, said at a news conference Monday that no neutrons or gamma rays could have been detected in the Pons-Fleischmann experiment...