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Published online 8 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060306-3

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Bubble bursts for table-top fusion

Data analysis calls bubble fusion into question.

Data claimed in January to be evidence for bubble fusion are actually a much better match for the radioactive decay of a standard lab source - by a factor of more than 100 million.

That is the key claim in an analysis by physicist Brian Naranjo, who is in the group of Seth Putterman at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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