Cold-fusion television show angers APS

摘要

Cold fusion has been controversialsince its inception on 23 March 1989,when chemists Martin Fleischmannand Stanley Pons at the University ofUtah in the US announced that theyhad achieved a sustained nuclear-fusion reaction at room temperature.Two decades on, a US television do-cumentary about the field has stirredup fresh debate after it linked theAmerican Physical Society (APS) toan evaluation of some cold-fusion re-sults by Robert Duncan, a physicistand vice chancellor of the Universityof Missouri.