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The Utah scientist who claims to have achieved cold fusion faces a deadline for sharing some results of his work or he will risk losing state money for research. The state Fusion Energy Council wants chemist B. Stanley Pons to produce part of his research data this week and the rest by Feb. 1. "Future funding of his research is contingent on his cooperation," said council chairman Raymond Hixson. "All of us are strong supporters, but can we go on?"

The Utah scientist who claims to have achieved cold fusion faces a deadline for sharing some results of his work or he will risk losing state money for research. The state Fusion Energy Council wants chemist B. Stanley Pons to produce part of his research data this week and the rest by Feb. 1. "Future funding of his research is contingent on his cooperation," said council chairman Raymond Hixson. "All of us are strong supporters, but can we go on?"

An advisory panel to the Energy Department on Wednesday recommended that no new government effort be made to verify the University of Utah "cold fusion" experiments that startled the international scientific community last March. The panel, assembled at the request of Energy Secretary James D. Watkins last April, said in a draft report that it found no "convincing evidence" that the phenomena attributed to cold fusion would produce useful sources of energy.

The University of Utah chemist who says he produced nuclear fusion at room temperature emerged Thursday from a mysterious absence to defend his disputed work before the state oversight panel he angered by failing to appear last month. Stanley Pons told the Utah Energy-Fusion Advisory Council that he remains committed to fusion research and dismissed concern about his whereabouts.

Two scientists announced Thursday that they have achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature, a breakthrough that if confirmed by other scientific experiments could move the quest for nuclear power into an entirely new arena. The scientists have produced an incredibly simple, table-top device that they say uses a small electric current to produce slightly more energy than it takes to run the experiment.

The dramatic finding that could propel two virtually unknown chemists into scientific history began to take shape five years ago on a hike up Millcreek Canyon on the outskirts of Salt Lake City and culminated in a fateful decision in a family kitchen. On that day, Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England and B.

Scientists at widely scattered laboratories thus far have been unable to duplicate the efforts of two scientists who claimed last week to have produced fusion at room temperature with a simple apparatus, various sources said Monday. The lack of success was blamed partly on a shortage of information about exactly how the experiment was conducted.

Federal scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory will take sensitive scientific instruments to Utah next week to help analyze an experiment there that has been touted as a breakthrough in the effort to produce energy through nuclear fusion. Los Alamos is one of nine laboratories across the country trying to duplicate the experiment.

There is growing evidence that two scientists who claimed last month to have achieved a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion are at least partly correct, but recently acquired copies of their research report raise puzzling questions about one of their major findings. At least a dozen major laboratories around the world are now trying to repeat the experiments announced by electrochemists B. Stanley Pons and Milton Fleischmann, and there have been scattered reports of some success.

The scientist whose name is mentioned these days with Edison and Einstein came to his front door in a rugby shirt, stocking feet and bad mood. "I can't find my slides," B. Stanley Pons snapped. Yes, the slides were missing, the ones Pons had used to illustrate nuclear fusion.

With the future of Utah's cold fusion research program hanging in the balance, the saga of two scientists who claimed last year to have discovered fusion-in-a-jar slipped further into the realm of comic opera Thursday when neither showed up for a critical meeting to reassess state funding for the program. The University of Utah's Stanley Pons has mysteriously disappeared, and has been communicating with his institution only by one-way fax.

University of Utah physicists announced last week that they could find no evidence of a nuclear reaction in the room-temperature fusion experiment conducted by Stanley Pons of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England. Pons and Fleischmann reported in March that they could produce excess energy from fusion in an electrochemical cell involving platinum and palladium electrodes immersed in so-called heavy water.

An advisory panel to the Energy Department on Wednesday recommended that no new government effort be made to verify the University of Utah "cold fusion" experiments that startled the international scientific community last March. The panel, assembled at the request of Energy Secretary James D. Watkins last April, said in a draft report that it found no "convincing evidence" that the phenomena attributed to cold fusion would produce useful sources of energy.

There is growing evidence that two scientists who claimed last month to have achieved a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion are at least partly correct, but recently acquired copies of their research report raise puzzling questions about one of their major findings. At least a dozen major laboratories around the world are now trying to repeat the experiments announced by electrochemists B. Stanley Pons and Milton Fleischmann, and there have been scattered reports of some success.

The scientist whose name is mentioned these days with Edison and Einstein came to his front door in a rugby shirt, stocking feet and bad mood. "I can't find my slides," B. Stanley Pons snapped. Yes, the slides were missing, the ones Pons had used to illustrate nuclear fusion.

Federal scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory will take sensitive scientific instruments to Utah next week to help analyze an experiment there that has been touted as a breakthrough in the effort to produce energy through nuclear fusion. Los Alamos is one of nine laboratories across the country trying to duplicate the experiment.

Claims by two scientists that they have produced fusion at room temperature set off a chain reaction throughout the country Friday, as scientists in dozens of laboratories began preparing to duplicate the experiment. "A lot of people around the country will be trying to do it," said nuclear astrophysicist Charles A. Barnes of Caltech. The flurry of activity followed a dramatic--and highly controversial--announcement Thursday at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. B.

The University of Utah chemist who says he produced nuclear fusion at room temperature emerged Thursday from a mysterious absence to defend his disputed work before the state oversight panel he angered by failing to appear last month. Stanley Pons told the Utah Energy-Fusion Advisory Council that he remains committed to fusion research and dismissed concern about his whereabouts.

Scientists at widely scattered laboratories thus far have been unable to duplicate the efforts of two scientists who claimed last week to have produced fusion at room temperature with a simple apparatus, various sources said Monday. The lack of success was blamed partly on a shortage of information about exactly how the experiment was conducted.

Claims by two scientists that they have produced fusion at room temperature set off a chain reaction throughout the country Friday, as scientists in dozens of laboratories began preparing to duplicate the experiment. "A lot of people around the country will be trying to do it," said nuclear astrophysicist Charles A. Barnes of Caltech. The flurry of activity followed a dramatic--and highly controversial--announcement Thursday at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. B.