“Cold Fusion” may not be fusion

Low Energy Nuclear Reaction research continues on the fringes

On 23 March 1989, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann made an astonishing announcement: they claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion — the power of the Sun — in a test tube of water at room temperature.

What followed was a media blitz. In the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster and…

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