Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 23, B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced that they achieved "cold fusion" in a flask, and scientists around the world quickly rushed to their labs to attempt to verify the researchers' claims...
...Fusion, the process that powers the sun, has been pegged for years as a possible solution to the world's energy problems because the huge amount of energy it produces is fueled primarily by hydrogen, which exists abundantly in water...
Before the Utah announcement, fusion was thought possible only at high temperatures and pressures like those found at the center of the sun. Researchers had tried for years to create such conditions with million-dollar equipment...
While those tests have succeeded in producing fusion reactions, so-called "hot fusion" has no commercial applications because of the high equipment costs involved. Hot fusion also yields less energy than is required to start the process...
...when Pons and Fleischmann claimed that they had achieved fusion at room temperature with relatively inexpensive equipment, the two scientists were cast in an unfamiliar role--that of celebrities...