Word: utah
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Before the Utah announcement, fusion was thought possible only at high temperatures and pressures like those found at the center of the sun. Researchers had tried for years to create such conditions with million-dollar equipment...
Fusion occurs when two small atoms combine to form a larger atom, releasing energy. The Utah researchers reported that when they ran an electric current through a flask containing heavy water and palladium, a sharp increase in water temperature occurred. The pair claimed that atoms of deuterium (a form of hydrogen found in heavy water) entered the palladium and fused together into helium atoms...
...Harvard teams joined scientists around the world in experiments designed to verify the claims of the Utah researchers...
...dissatisfaction with the Utah team's experimental technique came to a head at a convention of the American Physical Society on May 1, when several physicists charged that the claims of Pons and Fleischmann were unsubstantiated and that the two had used shoddy research methods...
...There have been many non-professional and emotional comments," said Dr. James Brophy, vice president for research at the University of Utah. "That is something that I have not seen before...