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Con fusion?

Con fusion? the claim by an India-born nuclear scientist of achieving nuclear fusion the reaction that fuels the sun in a laboratory has landed him in a controversy, with his peers reporting they could not replicate the experiment.

Rusi Taleyarkhan, a professor of nuclear engineering at Purdue University, usa, shot to fame when a research team he led reported tabletop fusion in a 2002 issue of Science journal (see

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