Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes driven by the same sort of base emotions -- like jealousy and paranoia -- that often motivate less intellectually lofty folks, and the peculiar circumstances of this discovery helped ignite a number of long- smoldering resentments. For one thing, fusion and other subatomic phenomena that are usually studied with giant nuclear reactors and particle accelerators have long been the private domain of physicists. Chemists, on the other hand, were more likely to be studying how to make a better laundry detergent, or so physicists seem to think. It is no surprise, then, that the harshest critics of Pons and his dime...
...past 50 years that was published with a bad paper. If a freshman physics or chemistry major had done it, they would have flunked." Says Robert G. Sachs, former director of ! Argonne National Laboratory: "It doesn't meet the kind of standards you'd want to meet for nuclear physics. It doesn't even meet the standards of testing in inorganic chemistry. It's a shame. They obviously just got too excited about it to think straight...
...necessarily wrong. But the burden of proof remains on them. So far, they have failed to demonstrate convincingly that they have indeed produced a new sort of fusion. And if the two chemists cannot think of any way to explain the excess heat in their experiment without resorting to nuclear reactions, others can. Chemist Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate and himself something of an iconoclast, thinks that when absorbing high concentrations of deuterium, the palladium lattice may become unstable and deteriorate, releasing heat...
...Zealand have been feuding since 1984, when Prime Minister David Lange kept an election promise to ban American nuclear-armed and -powered ships from his country's ports. In effect, that killed the ANZUS Security Treaty linking Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. in defense of the southern Pacific...
...issue goes well beyond New Zealand. Washington fears for its other security alliances if nuclear ships are denied port privileges. State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said withdrawing was New Zealand's "prerogative." But, she added, the fault was Wellington's refusal to welcome the U.S. Navy, not Washington's refusal to consult...