Word: fusion
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Although Rueckner would not speculate about what actually might be discovered, he said it appears that the kind of fusion energy source that was originally anticipated will not be found...
...scientists at the meeting assessed the usefulness of research last spring that attempted to duplicate the original experiment of B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and his associate, Martin Fleischmann, who announced on March 23 that they had detected the by-products of room-temperature fusion...
...Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, was originally thought to occur only at extremely high temperatures and pressures...
Attempts by other scientists to duplicate the experiment were unsuccessful. However, some of them did show a small amount of excess heat production. None of the other experiments showed production of neutrons or gamma rays, which are sure signs of fusion...
...Cold fusion experiments are now in progress atthe National Cold Fusion Institute, a nonprofitcorporation founded recently by the University ofUtah, Texas A&M University. Brigham YoungUniversity, Stanford University, the University ofMinnesota and the Los Alamos National Laboratoryin New Mexico