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"They were the best defensive team we'veplayed," sophomore Becky Gaffney said.
The meeting was held behind closed doors--the only scientists allowed to attend were those invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency, and the Electric Power Research Institute, a private organization.
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.
An MIT research team published a report in May that thoroughly examined the Pons-Fleischmann procedure and concluded that it was carelessly performed and that its results were incorrect.
In spite of all the negative feedback, the NSF committee decided that previous experiments were inconclusive and that further research should be conducted to find the answers to the yet unsolved questions.