True "cold fusion" happens - again.
>From dual Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Russian Academy of 
Science team - an improvement in the method announced by UCLA in 2005.
(Purdue, ANS, ASME & NAE lurk in the shadows in various manners so the 
claimants have credibility.)

While this is (apparently) *true* nuclear fusion the method does not 
offer net energy gain.
It does however produce fastish Neutrons from a standing start (unlike 
the earlier method which used a neutron source) and does not need 
cryogenic temperatures unlike the earlier system.

Potential applications are portable battery powered neutron generators 
(eg luggage / explosives scanners and much more. )

        http://news.rpi.edu/update.do

AND

    http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/ny_team_confirms_ucla_tabletop_fusion_10017.html

Current system produces around 200 kEV neutrons - energetic enough to 
penetrate several millimetres of steel.


        RM


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Ref: Matthew McMahon

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