Stronger evidence for desktop fusion
17:45 03 March 2004
NewScientist.com news service
Valerie Jamieson
The controversial claim that bubbles popping in a simple desktop experiment can produce nuclear fusion - the same process that powers the Sun - has been re-asserted by scientists.
In 2002, Rusi Taleyarkhan's team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, US caused a storm, when it announced it could make heavy hydrogen nuclei fuse by forcing tiny bubbles in acetone to implode when blasted with sound waves - a process called sonofusion.