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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physicist Richard D. Petrasso presented a paper compiled by a team of six MIT researchers who verified that the original experiment produced results different from those which fusion would produce.
"I think that there's a tremendous amount of evidence that [the Utah experiment] is a mistake," Petrasso said.
In the Utah fusion experiment, researchers B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann ran a current through a palladium electrode immersed in heavy water. They announced on March 23 that the deuterium nuclei in the water fused together into helium, releasing energy.
Petrasso said a graph Pons and Fleischmann published to describe the energy released in their experiment was erroneous, and he said that gamma rays, a by-product of fusion reactions, were not emitted in the experiment.
Another MIT researcher, Stanley Luckhardt, told the convention last night that his team has not produced the same amount of heat that Pons and Fleischmann generated in their experiment, but said they are not giving up.