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Published online 5 March 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020304-3
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Nuclear flash in a pan
Sparks fly over table-top fusion claims.
To physicists, it sounds like the discovery of the Holy Grail. Researchers in the United States and Russia are tentatively claiming to have seen nuclear fusion in a simple bench-top experiment with nothing more than a beaker of liquid and some sound waves1.
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