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Is bubble fusion simply hot air?

Concerns gather momentum over claims for table-top energy production.

Dogged by controversy, the idea of bubble fusion needed a boost - and in January this year it seemed to get it. Nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan, who originally reported the phenomenon in 2002, published fresh results1 that he claimed answered his critics and reaffirmed that energy can be generated by nuclear fusion taking place in bubbles.

Read the story here, and the special report here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on March 08, 2006
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