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Nature 442, 230-231 (20 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442230b; Published online 19 July 2006

Concerns grow over secrecy of bubble-fusion inquiry

Eugenie Samuel Reich

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University investigation criticized for lack of transparency.

As a way to resolve a scientific dispute, it was always likely to be fraught. In March 2005, nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana — known for his controversial claims to have achieved 'bubble fusion' — formally joined forces with one of his most prominent critics, physicist Seth Putterman of the University of California, Los Angeles.

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