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...Utah fusion experiment, researchers B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann ran a current through a palladium electrode immersed in heavy water. They announced on March 23 that the deuterium nuclei in the water fused together into helium, releasing energy...
Petrasso said a graph Pons and Fleischmann published to describe the energy released in their experiment was erroneous, and he said that gamma rays, a by-product of fusion reactions, were not emitted in the experiment...
Another MIT researcher, Stanley Luckhardt, told the convention last night that his team has not produced the same amount of heat that Pons and Fleischmann generated in their experiment, but said they are not giving...
...Conn, director of UCLA's Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research: "Fusion events should produce radiation ((such as neutrons and gamma rays)), and radiation can be measured. If it's really fusion and there's no radiation, then it's Nirvana." Considering the amount of heat that Pons and Fleischmann reported, physicists say, the accompanying radiation should have killed them. That means either that an unusual sort of fusion took place -- a theory held by some -- or that the two scientists have made a big mistake. One possibility is that they have overlooked some kind of chemical reaction...
Last week's results, while they seemed promising, had a hurried, slapdash quality to them. The jury-rigged experiments were based largely on what researchers had seen in the popular press and copies of the sketchy initial paper by Pons and Fleischmann, which began circulating by fax machine almost at once. At Texas A&M, chemists reported they had measured between 60% and 80% more heat energy coming out of the experiment than had gone in. But they had to try the experiment five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given...