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Nuclear fusion Blog Cold-fusion demonstration: an update Several of you have asked when I'm going to give you an update on Yoshiaki Arata's cold-fusion demonstration...
Nuclear fusion Blog Cold-fusion demonstration “a success” On 23 March 1989 Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that they had observed controlled nuclear fusion in a glass jar at room temperature...
Particles and interactions Research update Nobel laureates petition Bush over funding shortfall Twenty top physicists call for over $500m in 'emergency' cash to plug poor 2008 US science budget
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Nuclear fusion Blog Cold Fusion as Policy Posterboy The March Meeting has everything, including a session on cold fusion. It is almost 20 years since Pons and Fleischmann told the world that they had seen nuclear fusion in what is essentially an electr...
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Read article: US physics suffers budget setbacks Particles and interactions Research update US physics suffers budget setbacks Fermilab hit hard as it lays-off 10% of staff
Read article: UK physicist takes key fusion post Nuclear fusion Research update UK physicist takes key fusion post Llewellyn Smith is appointed chair of ITER council